Data center investment, ratepayer protections can both happen, state report argues
By Liam Niemeyer Kentucky Lantern As communities around Kentucky protest planned data centers, a new state energy group says data…
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Judge orders jail time for former Governor Matt Bevin over failure to produce financial information
By Deborah Yetter Kentucky Lantern Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has been ordered to serve 60 days in jail after…
Utilities report as many as 30 data centers under discussion across Kentucky
By Liam Niemeyer Kentucky Lantern Kentucky communities are grappling with the prospect of hyperscale data center projects — massive, sprawling…
ICE detentions should not be a profit center for Kentucky’s jails
By Kyle Ellison Kentucky Lantern In 1860, Dr. William Sneed, who had been the chief surgeon at Kentucky’s penitentiary, warned…
Misinformation threatens measles elimination status, overall health. Can Kentucky alter course?
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Louisville’s Maricia Richardson grew up hearing that she didn’t need to get vaccinated. She didn’t…
Thomas Massie, Ed Gallrein and more candidates make final pleas to KY voters ahead of primary
By McKenna Horsley Kentucky Lantern U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, whose tight race against a Trump-endorsed candidate has become one of…
New survey shows healthcare costs are top of mind for voters as November’s midterm elections approach
By Jennifer Shutt Kentucky Lantern WASHINGTON — Voters, including those within the Make America Healthy Again movement, say the rising…
Opinion – Bill Bishop: ‘Grievance politics’ thrives on chaos and confusion. That’s our system now
Columnist Chris Clayton noticed something odd in the Trump Administration’s budget for the Department of Agriculture. Since the USDA is…
Gas prices soar by 21% as government inflation figures reflect Trump’s war on Iran
By Ashley Murray Kentucky Lantern WASHINGTON — Spikes in energy prices caused by the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran drove up…
Thinking legacy, Mitch McConnell says he tried to help Kentucky punch above its weight
By Jamie Lucke Kentucky Lantern LEXINGTON — Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell defended NATO and said he supported “taking the…
Beshear criticizes finalized GOP state budget as underfunding some needs, GOP responds
By Liam Niemeyer Kentucky Lantern Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says the state budget sent to him by the GOP-controlled…
No Kings rallies roll out across U.S., with millions taking part in the protests
By Ashley Murray States Newsroom WASHINGTON — Large crowds took to the streets Saturday in the nation’s capital for the…
Judge sentences former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin to jail he can avoid by disclosing financial info
By Deborah Yetter Kentucky Lantern LOUISVILLE — A judge sentenced former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin to 60 days in jail…
President Trump rallies at Hebron in support of Massie challenger, lashes political foes
By McKenna Horsley Kentucky Lantern Verbally lashing his political foes, especially Republican U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, President Donald Trump rallied…
Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie says he will push for congressional vote on Iran war
(Editor’s note: Early Sunday morning Iranian state media reported that the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was dead. Other…
Kentucky children keep dying in ‘preventable’ drug overdoses — rate rises 100% over past five years
This story discusses child abuse. Report child abuse to Kentucky’s Statewide Child Abuse Hotline at 1-877-597-233. Kentucky’s poison control line…
Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously strikes down Republican lawmakers’ 2022 charter school law
By McKenna Horsley Kentucky Lantern FRANKFORT — Kentucky Supreme Court justices all agreed that the Republican-controlled legislature’s 2022 law allowing…
Fewer Kentuckians covered by ACA health insurance plans as subsidies stall in U.S. Senate
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Fewer Kentuckians have health insurance through kynect after subsidies that helped millions of Americans afford…
Andy Beshear’s super PAC steps up fundraising in its second year; gambling interests give big
By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern Gov. Andy Beshear’s super PAC, In This Together, raised almost $1.4 million in the second…
Two lobbyists made more than $1 million lobbying the Kentucky General Assembly last year
By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern In 2025 — for the first time — a lobbyist was paid more than $1…
Lawsuit claims Addiction Recovery Care in ‘desperate straits,’ owes feds $28 million
By Deborah Yetter Kentucky Lantern Addiction Recovery Care, or ARC, Kentucky’s largest provider of addiction treatment, has been hit by…
In Davos, Gov. Andy Beshear calls Trump’s push on Greenland is not ‘who we are’
By McKenna Horsley Kentucky Lantern Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear unabashedly showed how his style of governance differs from Republican President…