Kentucky Lantern

Addiction Recovery Care building in Louisa, photographed June 27, 2024. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Matthew Mueller)

To locate recovery services in Kentucky, visit https://findhelpnow.org/ky. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 988. T...

The Kentucky State Capitol on April 15, 2026. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Sarah Ladd)

Several social service programs in Kentucky are about to see cuts and reductions, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday. 

Beshear, a Democrat, blamed the cuts on the two-year state budget passed by the Republican-controlled General Assembly this year.&...

Republican state lawmakers sit with members of the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission. From left to right: Jeff Brock, a vice president for coal company Alliance Resource Partners; Rodney Andrews, the executive director of the Center for Applied Energy Research at the University of Kentucky; Sen. Robby Mills, R-Henderson; Sen. Steve West, R-Paris...

James Branscome's new book, "Annihilating the Hillbilly Redux," will be published on June 6, 2026.

When I published “Annihilating the Hillbilly” in 1971, the manifesto argued that the stereotyping of Appalachian people was not folklore but a tool. Coal operators, federal agencies, national media, and political elites used the hillbilly caricature...

The central offices of Fayette County Public Schools are housed in the John D. Price Administration Building in Lexington. (Fayette County Public Schools)

The chairman of the Fayette County Board of Education is suing to block a new Kentucky law that would remove him from office. 

Tyler Murphy, who has been on the school board since 2...