Kentucky Lantern

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. 

“I repeatedly warned the General Assembly about the painful impacts that would be felt from their budg...

FRANKFORT — As communities around Kentucky protest planned data centers, a new state energy group says data centers can be part of the state’s future, thanks to its cheap power and available land.

The state can bring in hyperscale data centers while also ensuring electricity ratepayers are protected, the executive director of the Energy Planning and Inventory Commissio...

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 to blame mountain people for conditions created by absentee ownership and extractive industries. The image was a weapon. The ess...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed a resolution Wednesday to force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the war with Iran and require congressional approval for further military action in the country.

The 215-208 vote, in which four Republicans voted with all Democrats to adopt the resolution, is the strongest rebuke to date against Trump’s handl...

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 2019, filed a lawsuit against Senate Bill 4 in Franklin County Circuit Cour...