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El domingo 7 de junio se disputa la 18va edición de Campeones en Maroñas con 13.5 millones de pesos en premios; jockeys de a pie, clásicos de domingo y los dos minutos de Kentucky

Hundreds of employees at UK will be laid off as part of reorganization Employees at the University of Kentucky, including 926 food service workers, are facing layoffs, according to federally-required notices filed with the state government. Aramark Campus learned earlier this year that its contract with the university for food and concession services would end on June 30, according to an April letter sent to the Kentucky Career […]

Beshear says he’s signing emergency measures to freeze, lower gas tax Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is signing emergency measures to freeze the state’s sales tax on gasoline starting in July and declare a state of emergency that could lower the tax by 10 cents a gallon starting next week. In a Tuesday press conference, Beshear, said he doesn’t see an end to the ongoing war between […]

Progress made but the work to end domestic violence continues in Kentucky Over the past month, we have witnessed many heartbreaking and senseless acts of violence in both our community and our neighbors’ communities. We are grieving the recent shooting in Adair County that claimed the lives of three individuals, the intimate partner stabbing in Tennessee that claimed the life of Samarah Smith from Murray, Kentucky, the […]

Cameron vows to keep fighting in KY GOP Senate primary despite Trump endorsement of Barr LOUISVILLE — For Daniel Cameron, it’s full steam ahead — even without President Donald Trump’s blessing for his U.S. Senate campaign. Cameron, surrounded by his family and supporters at the Jefferson County Republican Headquarters on Tuesday, said he doesn’t plan on dropping out of the Republican primary in Kentucky’s U.S.

Massie gets air time on Kentucky TV after Trump-endorsed challenger snubs KET debate LEXINGTON — Republican U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie — who has become a target of President Donald Trump this election cycle — took to KET’s debate stage alone Monday night to pitch himself to voters ahead of the state’s primary two weeks away.

Public health officials are investigating rare cancer cases in Eastern Kentucky children The Kentucky Department for Public Health is investigating reports of an unusually high number of brain tumors diagnosed in Eastern Kentucky children. Beth Fisher, a spokeswoman with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, told the Lantern the state is “aware of reports concerning a potential increase in pediatric brain tumor cases.” It’s unclear […]

Kentucky schools grapple with loss of community support grant OWENSBORO — On a September evening, students gathered on the lawn of Burns Elementary School in Daviess County for a family movie night. “It’s an inflatable screen. … It’s like going to the drive-in,” said Emmy Woosley, executive director of the Foundation for Daviess County Public Schools.

The night before the Kentucky Derby, Republican President Donald Trump placed his bets on two Republicans facing crowded primaries — U.S. Rep. Andy Barr for U.S.

United States criticized in Kentucky [4 sources]

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Japanese fought in Kentucky [4 sources]

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Syria fought with Bank in Kentucky [6 sources]

Companies coerced Government in Kentucky [5 sources]

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Louisville criticized Police in Kentucky [10 sources]

United States reduced relations with in Kentucky [4 sources]

President rejected in Kentucky [6 sources]

KY judge strikes definition of human life, paving way for Jewish women’s IVF pursuit A Jefferson County judge has struck down part of Kentucky law that defined human life as beginning at conception, clarifying women who sued the state over the issue can pursue in vitro fertilization without fear of prosecution. Five months after he heard arguments in a more than three-year old court case seeking to strike down […]

Kentucky’s largest utility to ‘explore’ bringing small nuclear reactors to the state Kentucky’s largest utility says it’s partnering with a Maryland-based company building a new generation of small nuclear reactors to “explore” bringing the modular power plants to the state. A release Thursday from Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities (LG&E and KU) states its collaborating with X-energy to bring the publicly-traded company’s Xe-100 small, modular […]

Editor’s Notebook: Some unexpected Kentucky magic outside of Derby Week On Friday morning, Kentucky Oaks Day, I was greatly entertained by a column in the Courier-Journal by Eric Reynolds bemoaning the corporatization of the Kentucky Derby. The opening line, “The Kentucky Derby has been kidnapped and dressed in a seersucker suit,” gives you some idea where he’s headed. He then follows with this banger: The […]

Kentucky voters have deadlines looming ahead of May primary for absentee voting requests With roughly two weeks left before the primary election, some Kentucky voters have deadlines coming up to ensure their vote is counted. The online absentee ballot portal closes Tuesday, May 5. Voters who will not be able to vote on Election Day, which is May 19, can submit a request on the portal to receive […]

Republican President Donald Trump said Thursday he will remove tariffs to allow Kentucky bourbon distillers to more easily ship barrels to Scotland after King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited the U.S. this week. In a Truth Social post, Trump said he will remove “the Tariffs and Restrictions on Whiskey having to do with Scotland’s […]

Beshear says Kentucky, Ford come to new job agreement on Hardin County plant Gov. Andy Beshear announced Kentucky had come to a new agreement with Ford Motor Company after the company said in December it would convert a Hardin County plant from making batteries for electric vehicles to making batteries for a new energy storage business. Beshear, a Democrat, said in his weekly press conference Thursday that his […]

Beshear still wary of U of Kentucky decisions — like stifling faculty senate and new LLCs FRANKFORT — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear expanded on his recent criticisms of leadership at the University of Kentucky — adding that he is wary of efforts to consolidate employees under private entities and the changes to governing regulations that gutted the faculty senate. Beshear, a Democrat, had publicly scolded the university last week over recent hiring decisions, […]

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From Lynch to Lexington, civil rights champion changed communities wherever he went Porter Geneal Peeples Sr. was born in Lynch, Kentucky, the fifth child of a coal miner and his wife, on October 26, 1945. He died Tuesday afternoon, April 29 at the age of 80, while at work at the Urban League of Lexington, an organization he led for more than 50 years.

Governor rejected Kentucky in Kentucky [4 sources]

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Turkey coerced Los Angeles in Kentucky [4 sources]

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Kentuckians submitted these photos of their rescue pets Rescue dogs and cats are the official pets of Kentucky, thanks to a bill passed by the General Assembly in 2026. The Kentucky Lantern asked people to submit their rescue pets to mark the occasion. Take a look at some of the official pets of Kentucky.

Long ago, this Republican was beloved for his agnosticism in Kentucky and beyond Christian nationalists and their supporters are a majority in the Republican Party, according to a February Public Religion Research Institute poll. The survey revealed that nationally, 56 percent of Republicans “qualify as either Christian nationalism Adherents (21%) or Sympathizers (35%), compared with one in four independents (25%) and less than one in five Democrats (17%).” […]

Report: Kentuckians of color continue to have worse health outcomes than white neighbors Black babies in Kentucky are more than twice as likely to die as white babies, according to a new report that shows health outcomes and access are, in general, worse in the commonwealth than the nation. The Commonwealth Fund 2026 State Health Disparities Report, released Wednesday, shows Kentucky is worse on average than the nation […]

Rating Kentucky’s non-horse races at Derby time Welcome, Derby visitors, in person and online! Each year this column looks at races that go on in Kentucky almost all the time, for elective office, and our card is busy: Two fully contested primaries for the U.S. Senate, and three for the House, with Elon Musk actively involved in one of the former and […]

‘A victory for the voiceless’ as Beshear’s pen makes shelter dogs, cats official KY pets Advocates hope a new Kentucky law will raise awareness about overpopulation in animal shelters and help more cats and dogs find forever homes. Gov. Andy Beshear signed Senate Bill 37 on Monday, which makes rescue dogs and cats the official state pets and names the Treeing Walker Coonhound the official breed of Kentucky.

Kentucky attorney general asks U.S. Supreme Court to allow Catholic church to build shrine Republican Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a Northern Kentucky church to build an outdoor shrine.

United States engaged in clashes in Kentucky [4 sources]

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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has paused the state’s Adopt-A-Highway program because of “increased safety risks” for volunteers picking up litter alongside adopted roads. Allen Blair, a spokesperson for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, in an emailed statement Tuesday said the cabinet paused the decades-old program “because of the nationwide rise in work zone crashes and distracted […]

Central Kentucky U.S. House candidates show few differences in GOP, Democratic KET debates Six candidates hoping to succeed Republican U.S. Rep.

It’s simple: as optometry gets more complicated, KY’s standards need to keep up During the 2026 legislative session, Kentucky lawmakers were presented with a simple question: as optometric procedures become more invasive — including lasers and injections — should oversight of those procedures remain entirely within the optometry board, or should there be some form of independent or shared oversight? It is a reasonable question. It is a […]

Christianity criticized in Kentucky [10 sources]

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Felon rejected Posse in Kentucky [5 sources]

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Community criticized in Kentucky [6 sources]

‘A man of many firsts.’ Groundbreaking Kentucky legislator dies at 79 Jesse Crenshaw, a longtime Fayette County lawyer and legislator who broke many of Kentucky’s racial barriers, died on Sunday, April 26, after a short illness, his family said. He was 79 years old. Crenshaw grew up in Lexington, and received his undergraduate degree from Kentucky State University and a law degree from the University of […]

Kentucky Derby 2026: Immortality and ebb There’s a gaping asymmetry between the Kentucky Derby and American horse racing. The nation’s most famous race, to be run for the 152nd time at Churchill Downs in Louisville Saturday, stands as the shining city on a hill amid the growing rubble of its sport and industry. A neophyte, if one can be found in […]

Last week’s Beshear-UK dustup shows once again why journalism matters Last week’s fireworks between Gov. Andy Beshear and the University of Kentucky have been entertaining, to say the least. The furor has something for everyone: the state’s enormous UK Law alumni groups who are torn about whether a federal judge should become the dean, sports boosters angry about Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart’s golden parachute (and […]

Supreme Court applied coercive pressure in Kentucky [6 sources]

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Louisville applied coercive pressure in Kentucky [6 sources]

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Minneapolis applied coercive pressure on Garrison in Kentucky [4 sources]

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President issued criticism in Kentucky [6 sources]

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Kentucky’s unusual political calendar, in which we elect governors in the odd-numbered year before presidential races, has occasionally interfered with even-year races for U.S. Senator. That has hurt Democrats; factional splits led to Sen.

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that emails and text messages created by public officials on private devices are not public records, a decision that a dissenting supreme court justice fears could destroy “the public’s right to know what its government is doing.”  The ruling stemmed from a years-long case brought by the open government […]

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Ruling Party expressed disapproval of Exxon in Kentucky [3 sources]

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Pole rejected overtures in Kentucky [10 sources]

University of Kentucky Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart has decided not to take a $950,000 a year job that would begin after his June 30 retirement, UK President Eli Capilouto announced on Thursday. “Mitch Barnhart came to me earlier this week to share his concern that the discussion surrounding his future role leading our sports workforce […]

State Senate to get final say over who serves as future head of Kentucky’s wildlife agency Kentucky lawmakers recently legalized hunting bobcats and beavers at night and overturned limits on wakesports on lakes. They also passed several measures in response to clashes and controversies — some swirling for years — around leadership of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. Among them: The GOP-controlled Kentucky Senate now has a direct […]

Four prominent NC lobbyists indicted over bourbon-tasting junket Four prominent North Carolina lobbyists have been indicted by a Wake County Grand Jury on criminal charges in connection with an April 2024 bourbon-tasting junket to Kentucky that included members of the General Assembly. Named in the indictments are Kevin Wilkinson, North Carolina office director of the Southern Group; Bo Heath, a partner with McGuireWoods […]

Spike in child sex abuse spurs new guidance for Kentucky investigators This story discusses child abuse and sexual abuse. If you suspect a child is being abused or neglected, call the Child Protection Hotline at 877-597-2331. In emergencies, call 911.

United States issued criticism in Kentucky [4 sources]

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General Assembly rejected overtures in Eastern Kentucky University [3 sources]

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Frankfort reported tensions with State Leader in Kentucky [4 sources]

Lyon reported tensions in Kentucky [6 sources]

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Beshear again criticizes U of Kentucky hiring decisions, says ‘real oversight’ is needed A day after Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear shared that he was “losing confidence and growing increasingly concerned” with the management of the University of Kentucky, Beshear expanded on criticism of a “political party” defending the appointment of a new dean of the university’s College of Law. Beshear said on social media Wednesday that he had […]

Kentucky’s budget process was basically: TRUST US Kentuckians have a right to expect the state budget is designed and changed in ways the public can participate in. This year, that did not happen. The processes behind two main budget bills, House Bill 500 and House Bill 900 were compressed and passed with little to no public input.

Fighting for the ‘luxury’ of air in Kentucky’s worst region for pollution For Louisville high school math teacher Lindsay Thurman, air quality isn’t an abstract concept; her body tenses and cramps as she fights through pollutants to breathe. Thurman lives with the rare pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which features “abnormally high” blood pressure in lung arteries, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders. “It just seems […]

Beshear is ‘losing confidence’ in University of Kentucky admin following recent hirings Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said Tuesday that he is “losing confidence and growing increasingly concerned” with the management of the University of Kentucky following recent hiring decisions. Beshear, who has the authority to make appointments to all Kentucky public university boards, said in a social media post that he was concerned about “the creation […]

Secretary Of State reported tensions in Kentucky [3 sources]

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Murray issued criticism in Kentucky [10 sources]

Clergy issued criticism in Kentucky [10 sources]

Louisville applied coercive pressure in Kentucky [6 sources]

Syria expressed disapproval of United States in Kentucky [5 sources]

Portland expressed disapproval of Vancouver in Kentucky [6 sources]

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Frankfort reported tensions in Kentucky [5 sources]

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Lyon staged protests in Kentucky [8 sources]

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Republican Daniel Cameron got about a half hour of air time to make his case to viewers during KET debates held for Kentucky’s U.S. Senate candidates Monday night, while Democrats Amy McGrath, Dale Romans and Charles Booker disagreed on issues like Medicaid and the minimum wage. Booker, a former state lawmaker, arrived on the debate […]

Two top Kentucky GOP candidates for US Senate spurn KET debate Two of the top Republican candidates for Kentucky’s open U.S. Senate seat have chosen not to participate in a KET debate Monday evening. Former Attorney General Daniel Cameron is the only GOP candidate slated to appear on the program.

Linda Blackford joins Kentucky Lantern as editor, succeeding Jamie Lucke CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — States Newsroom on Monday announced the hiring of veteran Kentucky reporter and editor Linda Blackford as editor in chief of the Kentucky Lantern, the state’s leading government-focused nonprofit news outlet. Blackford fills the editor role as the Lantern’s founding editor, Jamie Lucke, retires after a distinguished career in journalism that has […]

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Employee applied coercive pressure in Kentucky [6 sources]

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Governor rejected overtures in Kentucky [3 sources]

Louisville expressed disapproval of Producer in Kentucky [10 sources]

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Creativity issued criticism in Kentucky [10 sources]