2016 General Assembly

A Kentucky Senate committee has passed a bill that would crack down on habitual drunk drivers.The bill would double the five-year “look-back period” for…

A measure related to legislative pensions won unanimous approval Wednesday from a state senate committee. Legislation that could change the state…

Kentucky highway projects could be delayed because of a $112.5 million cut to the state Transportation Cabinet budget.Gov. Matt Bevin made the cut this…

State House Democrats will once again try to push through a bill that would allow the state to borrow $3.3 billion to shore up the ailing teacher pension…

There’s a long road ahead in the upcoming legislative session in Frankfort, and several key players in Kentucky’s legislature will be driving the…

State spending on elementary and secondary education in Kentucky has dropped at one of the highest rates in the U.S. since 2008, according to a report…

If each U.S. state were its own country, Kentucky would have the seventh-highest incarceration rate in the world, according to a recent analysis by the…

The Commonwealth’s higher education funding will be among the competing concerns facing the upcoming 2016 General Assembly and Governor-elect Matt Bevin.…

A bill re-introduced for the upcoming Kentucky General Assembly directs the state medical examiner to include statistics regarding arrest-related deaths…

Representatives from the professional association for state troopers are requesting a 5 percent increase in pay for all state police employees and a…