Beshear signs executive orders making Juneteenth state holiday, establishing CROWN Act to protect Black hairstyles from discrimination

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Pipe dream or possibility? Beshear involved in presidential ticket talks

Amidst the post-debate panic, a handful of names have emerged as potential replacements for presumptive Democratic nominee, President ...

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Civic nonprofit sues state over voter removal policies

Some Kentucky voters might show up to the polls and find out that they can’t vote, through no ...

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear speaks about the status of the construction of the Blue Oval SV Battery Plant during an interview at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Thursday, June 6, 2024.

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Six months of Beshear (again): What’s he done?

Nearly every time he speaks, Gov. Andy Beshear shares that Kentucky is on its “biggest, best economic development ...

A calf peers out of a pen after being castrated by Dr. Roger Thomas, one of the owners of Thomas and England Veterinary Services in Smiths Grove, at WPH Farms in Allen County on Friday afternoon, June 21, 2024. Thomas said he travels far and wide to accommodate the high demand for large animal care as the Kentucky Rural Veterinary Loan Repayment Program, a new vet student loan repayment program approved by the state legislature this year that offers up to $87,500 in loan repayments over five years to vets who agree to practice on livestock in underserved rural areas or other shortage areas, aims to make a dent in a decades-long rural large animal vet shortage. (Grace Ramey McDowell/grace.ramey@bgdailynews.com)

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‘All that can be done:’ State rural vet loan program to slow existential crisis

One day in mid-June, Dr. Timothy Gardner traveled from his Scottsville veterinary practice to Union County to Webster ...

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Two years post Roe, smaller abortion battles wage

If the Supreme Court justices thought overturning Roe v. Wade would spell the end of the abortion question, they’d ...

Sarah Young, a second chance employee at Kentucky Dam Village Park, speaks at a Team Kentucky presser in Frankfort.

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Kentucky employers give second chances

When Barbara Aker’s nephew was 10 or 11, he broke his arm. A painkiller prescription set him off ...

Gov. Andy Beshear makes announcement on opioid drug overdose death decline in Kentucky.

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‘Cannot do this alone:’ Fatal drug overdoses down, more work to be done

FRANKFORT — Once the de facto capital of the opioid epidemic, Kentucky is a now a national model ...

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Students as experts: Kentucky chosen for national mental health program

Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman has a bachelor’s degree in education, a secondary education certification, a master’s degree and ...

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Read to Succeed: Kentucky education officials provide early literacy update

PARIS – In 2022, the Read to Succeed Act changed the way Kentucky kids learn to read. Monday, ...

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Top Kentucky senators talk leadership at WKU lunch

A pair of Kentucky state senators gave some insight into their leadership Thursday at a southcentral Kentucky event. ...

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