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The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to decide whether to protect an imperiled salamander found in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Truffle cultivators are becoming increasingly common across Appalachia and the southeast region, and say the climate and soil quality are ideal for growing the coveted fungi.

Bowling Green and Paducah are two of the sites where protesters gathered to denounce the killing of a Minnesota woman who was shot to death by a ICE agent.

Kentucky high school students will take the SAT instead of the ACT starting this spring. A new report suggests the Kentucky Department of Education may have violated state law by switching to a different college admissions exam.

The EPA is moving to narrow the definitions of protected waterways under the Clean Water Act, opening many waterways to pollution and destruction.

Eastern Kentucky is full of isolated, rural towns that have experienced decline alongside the coal industry. But some who want to stick around are trying to reverse that by revitalizing the region's downtown spaces.

Despite the reopening of the federal government, refugees who have resettled in the U.S. no longer qualify for SNAP benefits. The Republican-backed "Big Beautiful Bill" signed into law in July revoked a longtime policy of allowing refugees food assistance under SNAP.

Now that the federal government shutdown is over, Kentucky is working to issue full SNAP benefits to the 600,000 residents who receive food assistance.

The disruption in food assistance due to the government shutdown has communities banding together to feed their neighbors. Even as the longest shutdown in U.S. history has come to an end, food banks and other non-profits say they expect demand to continue in the coming weeks and throughout the holiday season as the low-income get back on their feet.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a petition from a former county clerk in Kentucky who asked justices to overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling that legalized marriage for same-sex couples.