Aprile Rickert
Aprile is WFPL's health reporter. Rickert comes to WFPL from the News and Tribune in Southern Indiana, where she covered crime and courts as a senior reporter. A New Albany native, she spent nearly two decades in Louisville before recently moving back across the river to Jeffersonville.
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The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Commission will soon open the process to distribute part of the state’s roughly $480 million opioid settlement. -
Three Louisville residents are filing a lawsuit in state court arguing Kentucky’s abortion restrictions violate their reproductive and religious freedom rights. -
Through town halls, polling and online comments, the committee found many Kentuckians believe cannabis can help with conditions like PTSD. -
In November, Kentuckians will vote on an amendment that would explicitly state there is no right to abortion in the state constitution. A group of panelists discussed the amendment on Friday and urged Kentuckians to vote it down, saying it would have devastating effects. -
The measure requires abortion providers to report patient information including age, race, ethnicity, location and STD status. -
Planned Parenthood’s Louisville health center, which provided abortions until recently, will remain open for other health care needs and to help patients navigate abortions in other states. -
Wastewater testing shows high rates of infection in Jefferson County, and researchers have started sampling for monkeypox and polio. -
The Kentucky Court of Appeals granted an emergency stay Monday that allows Attorney General Daniel Cameron to enforce two of the state’s near-total abortion bans. The decision reverses a temporary block against the laws.
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Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed an appeal challenging a circuit court judge’s block on enforcing two broad abortion bans in the state. -
A judge has granted a temporary injunction blocking Ky.’s trigger ban on abortion and six-week ban, for the duration of a circuit court case.
