Kentucky Public Radio

Rare blue-ghost fireflies are generally associated with the southern Appalachian region, but researchers say their range is likely bigger than that — expanding all the way to north central Kentucky.

While enrollment has grown at Kentucky’s public universities and the Kentucky Community and Technical college system, the state has also taken a hit to two key affordability measures.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Kentucky over a regulation that gives “an undocumented alien” in-state tuition if they graduated from a Kentucky high school.

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie introduced a resolution Tuesday to “prohibit” U.S. involvement in the escalating Israel-Iran conflict, joined by several Democrats.

Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill” is estimated to kick millions of people off Medicaid, causing concern for health care providers in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, a region especially dependent on the federal program.

People demonstrated across Kentucky on Saturday to express their outrage at President Donald Trump’s administration.

Paul says Trump’s criticism will not deter the Kentucky senator from disagreeing with his party’s president on policies such as debt spending and tariffs.

Protesters are decrying the ICE detention of an 18-year-old Bowling Green resident weeks after his graduation.

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.

Gov. Andy Beshear said Kentucky’s gas tax will drop by 1.4 cents, lowering the cost to 26 cents per gallon.