Liam Niemeyer
ReporterLiam covers government and policy in Kentucky and its impacts throughout the Commonwealth for the Kentucky Lantern. He most recently spent four years reporting award-winning stories for WKMS Public Radio in Murray.
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The boom in artificial intelligence is fueling a proliferation of new data centers — the computer clusters that power the internet — in “places that maybe we hadn’t thought of before,” an industry spokesman told utility regulators gathered in Louisville last month.
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Hopkins County is recovering from its second violent tornado in less than three years. Neighbors who were spared in 2021 and came to the aid of others now face the shock and long journey of disaster recovery themselves — in a disaster that at least one official predicts will garner less attention and fewer resources than the earlier one.
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Storms responsible for 5 deaths across Kentucky as neighbors in Hopkins County rely on each other to recover — yet again
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Kentucky finalizing ban on hunting feral swine in hopes of slowing their advance
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A driving force behind many state parks, the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund’s financial resources dwindled recent years
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Rep. Kevin Bratcher, a Louisville Republican, says he wants to be on the right side of history when it comes to the man-made “forever chemicals” that are in Kentucky’s waterways, fish and some Kentuckians’ drinking water.
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Some sportsmen say confirmation process has been ‘weaponized’ against them
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FRANKFORT — The GOP-dominated Senate narrowly advanced a controversial change for Kentucky’s wildlife management agency Friday while also voting to administratively attach the racing commission to the state agriculture department as well.
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FRANKFORT —Wildlife conservation and sportsmen groups on Tuesday voiced strong opposition to a bill that would put wildlife management under the purview of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and its Republican commissioner.
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Climate plans are a part of federal grant competition to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions