Gov. Andy Beshear has filled two seats on a new energy planning commission with utility executives who, like Beshear, opposed the commission’s creation.

The Louisville Democratic Party is expected to choose a general election replacement in the Kentucky House District 40 race Friday evening, though legal questions remain.

Voters in dozens of cities and counties across Kentucky will vote in November on whether to allow medical cannabis businesses to operate there.

Congress has authorized trillions of dollars in new spending through the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. In our series “Breaking Ground,” “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal visits communities across the country to look at how this infusion of federal dollars might change the economy in complicated, invisible, even contradictory ways.

Paducah Mayor George Bray announced Tuesday evening that the city is dissolving its partnership with a development firm that had committed to bringing a $24 million project to the far western Kentucky community’s downtown.

Inspired by her upbringing, the 78-year-old country music legend has made it her mission over the past three decades to improve literacy through her Imagination Library book giveaway program. It has expanded statewide in places like Missouri and Kentucky, two of 21 states where all children under the age of 5 can enroll to have books mailed to their homes monthly.

When the toll collector asked Leahruth Jemilo how she was doing, she burst into tears. The collector's response has stayed with her ever since.

It takes skill and practice to navigate the world in a wheelchair. This summer program teaches kids how, one wheelie at a time.

A general strike in Israel to protest the government's failure to return hostages from Gaza led to some closures and disruptions. A major union said it was calling off the strike after a court order.

Russia launched a barrage of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine's air force said early Monday, sending residents into bomb shelters.

Coco Gauff's loss in the U.S. Open's fourth round follows a third-round loss by defending men's champion Novak Djokovic, and was the latest in a series of early exits for Gauff in recent weeks.

Workers are demanding higher wages and more staffing to ease their workload. The union says that cuts to staffing and guest services that many hotels made during the COVID-19 pandemic were never restored.