Bourbon production at Buffalo Trace Distillery has been connected to the Kentucky River for decades.

Republican Ralph Alvarado has reentered Kentucky politics by announcing his bid for a congressional seat targeted by Democrats in 2026.

The National Weather Service will resume translating its products for non-English speakers.

Signs of renewal are underway at the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Kentucky since the floodwaters have receded.

The historic Buffalo Trace Distillery has temporarily closed after deadly flooding ravaging Kentucky swept into its facilities, forcing the popular bourbon company to turn away the public and staff.

Rivers rose and flooding worsened across the U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already waterlogged and badly damaged by days of heavy rain and storms that killed at least 23 people.

Rivers rose and flooding worsened across the U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already waterlogged and badly damaged by days of heavy rain and wind that killed at least 18 people.

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a GOP-backed bill to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the state's public universities.

Kentucky’s Republican lawmakers have passed a bill that protects conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youths They want to undo restrictions that Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear placed on the practice.

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have added several medical exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says a food company has chosen the Bluegrass State for a facility that will employ more than 900 people.

Kentucky’s attorney general has expanded an opioid-related lawsuit to target another pharmacy benefit manager.

A battery manufacturer has selected Kentucky for a nearly $712 million project to produce industrial-sized batteries used to store and distribute energy.

The Small Business Administration is looking to attract lenders to finance small businesses' clean energy projects.

Vice President Kamala Harris is beginning to vet about a dozen possible candidates to be her running mate as she approaches one of most consequential decisions of her new presidential candidacy.

Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky will use a lottery to award licenses to businesses competing to participate in the state’s startup medical cannabis program.

The Kentucky House has voted to allow the state’s smallest coal mining operations to reduce the number of miners with emergency medical training on a shift.

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear marched with other Kentuckians to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a landmark civil-rights rally that featured Martin Luther King Jr. in the state's capital city.

Fifteen years ago, bourbon barons poured whiskey out on the Kentucky Capitol steps to protest a looming tax increase on the spirits industry.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says access to medical marijuana in the state should expand to include more health conditions.

Attorneys for a Kentucky woman who sued demanding the right to an abortion have withdrawn the lawsuit after the woman learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity.

A business group that advocates for clean energy estimates that 403,000 jobs will be created by the 210 major energy projects announced since the Inflation Reduction Act took effect in mid-2022.

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) is becoming harder but a narrow window remains because clean energy infrastructure has grown around the world, a new report said Tuesday.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is challenging a federal judge's injunction that blocks portions of a new state law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

Kentucky’s Democratic governor has vetoed a sweeping Republican measure aimed at regulating the lives of transgender youths.

Republican lawmakers have advanced a bill aimed at putting limits on drag shows in Kentucky.

Breonna Taylor's boyfriend has settled two lawsuits against the city of Louisville.

Kentucky voters have rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have removed any protection for abortion rights from the constitution of their deeply red state.

On the defensive for years in Republican-dominated Kentucky, abortion-rights supporters have gained an election-year advantage at a pivotal time.

Kentucky’s Supreme Court is keeping the state’s near-total abortion ban in effect.

A Kentucky judge has issued a ruling that continues to keep the state’s near-total ban on abortion from taking effect.

The Kentucky's Supreme Court has issued a sharply divided ruling against the warrantless use of cellphones as tracking devices by police.

A new state report says fatal drug overdoses rose nearly 15% in Kentucky last year.

Frustration is building among abortion rights groups in Kentucky, where a restrictive new law has thrown the state’s only two remaining clinics into limbo.

Kentucky's governor says a Japanese battery technology company will build a $2 billion factory in Kentucky, creating 2,000 jobs.

Kentucky's Democratic has vetoed a Republican-backed measure to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Kentucky lawmakers have taken another step toward banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Kentucky's governor has declared an emergency over the state's chronic nursing shortage amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear says he's calling the Republican-led legislature into a special session to shape pandemic policies in Kentucky.

The underlying issue in the case, to be heard in the fall, is a blocked Kentucky law that abortion rights supporters say would have effectively banned a standard abortion method in the second trimester of pregnancy. AdFive days later, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to strike down an unrelated Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics. But Cameron, who became attorney general in 2019, said the reasoning used by the high court called into question the ruling against the Kentucky law. The appeals court, however, rejected his efforts to intervene, prompting his appeal to the Supreme Court. In February, Kentucky's Republican-led legislature gave Cameron the power to seek civil and criminal penalties for any violation of Kentucky’s abortion laws.

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, file photo, police speak with protesters at the First Unitarian church, in Louisville, Ky. It could become a crime to taunt a police officer in Kentucky, under a bill that passed the state Senate on Thursday, March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)FRANKFORT – It could become a crime to taunt a police officer in Kentucky, under a bill that passed the state Senate on Thursday. The bill passed the Republican-dominated Senate 22-11 and now awaits House input. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

Walker was the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor who was killed by officers of the Louisville Metro Police Department following the execution of a no knock warrant on her apartment on March 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A judge in Kentucky has signed an order permanently closing a criminal case against Breonna Taylor's boyfriend, who shot a police officer during the deadly raid that killed Taylor. Prosecutors dismissed an attempted murder of a police officer charge against Kenneth L. Walker in May, about two months after Taylor's death. Taylor was fatally shot by police who burst through her door with a narcotics warrant on March 13, 2020. Two other officers who fired shots at Taylor's apartment have been dismissed from the department.

FILE - Signs are held up showing Breonna Taylor during a rally in her honor on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Thursday, June 25, 2020. The city of Louisville will pay several million dollars to the mother of Breonna Taylor and install police reforms as part of a settlement of a lawsuit from Taylors family, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Workers prepare to remove the Jefferson Davis statue from the Kentucky state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., on Saturday, June 13, 2020. A Kentucky commission voted to take down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the state Capitol. (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)FRANKFORT, Ky. Having led the push to take down a statue of Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky Capitol, the state's governor had a ceremonial role Saturday in its removal from the place it stood for decades. The panels vote came two days after another Davis statue was toppled by protesters in Virginia. The commission called for the statue to be moved to the Jefferson Davis Historic Site, where Davis was born.