Every year, St. Jerome Catholic Church draws thousands of visitors to its Fancy Farm Picnic fundraiser in Graves County, Kentucky, with its food, games, and fiery political speeches. WKMS's Will Darnall sends an audio postcard from the 145th edition.

Kentucky followed national trends of declining educational scores in 2024 following pandemic-era lows, while seeing some moderate improvements in economic well being, according to recently released KIDS COUNT data.

On one of the first warm and sunny Saturday afternoons of the year at a shooting range in Boaz – a rural community in far western Kentucky – a group of women and LGBTQ+ community members joined together to learn the basics of gun safety.

A recent executive order by President Donald Trump stops transgender, intersex and nonbinary people from updating the gender marker on their passports. Now, some Kentuckians say they are getting passports with the wrong gender marker.

Dozens of members of Mayfield’s Hispanic community chanted and marched in the western Kentucky city Monday as part of “A Day Without Immigrants,” a nationwide initiative protesting recent anti-immigrant policies and highlighting the role that immigrants play in the U.S. economy.

A chance encounter in a Colorado coffee shop drive-thru line and a quick conversation at a grocery store.

More than three years ago, a devastating and deadly tornado ripped through west Kentucky in the middle of December. Now, in Dawson Springs, the debris has mostly been cleaned up and many of the destroyed and damaged homes have been replaced or repaired, but there’s still a ways to go.

Tennessee has one of the largest foster care populations in the country. And a new report from Belmont Innovation Labs has found that those youth are suffering once they age out of the system.

The barks and meows of dozens of dogs and cats can be heard up and down the halls of the McCracken County Humane Society.

Three years to the day after an EF-4 tornado tore through Mayfield and Graves County, local officials and community members dedicated eight new homes to families that survived the disaster.