The Lowertown Arts & Music Festival will be held in Paducah's historic Lowertown Arts District on Friday, May 10, and Saturday, May 11. The festival's lineup includes Doom Gong, an eclectic psychedelic rock band that merges elements of jazz and classical music with rock and roll. Morning Edition host Daniel Hurt speaks to guitarist and vocalist John Anderson ahead of the band's performance.

The total number of Kentucky farms dropped by 20% in the span of two decades – with the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture data showing a loss of over 1.4 million acres of farmland in a little more than two decades’ time.

14 people face second-degree animal cruelty charges after state police responded to a tip about cockfighting at a Casey County home on Sunday.

Tennessee teachers may now be required to out transgender students to their parents, under a measure signed into law by Gov. Bill Lee. The legislation requires schools to alert parents if their child has requested to go by a name, or set of pronouns, that differs from their school forms.

A new KET documentary explores the current challenges and history of the Ohio River, one of Kentucky’s defining waterways.

Kentucky is among a handful of states that lost only a small percentage of children from its Medicaid program in 2023 even as the number of kids cut from coverage soared elsewhere under annual renewal requirements that had been suspended during COVID-19.

Republicans have raised the alarm about a migrant crime wave. Nationally, crime is down even as immigration has surged, but the concerns are real in some neighborhoods.

The judge overseeing Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case is running for reelection this month. So is the case's top prosecutor. It's a unique subplot to an unprecedented case.

Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling was a paratrooper during WWII. After the war, he wrote a short story inspired by the experience. It's now being published for the first time in The Strand.

Expert guidance on the realities of pregnancy and new motherhood from Life Kit. Find episodes on the menstrual cycle, egg freezing, postpartum depression and more.

Forecasters warned a wave of dangerous storms in the U.S. could march through parts of the South early Thursday, after deadly storms a day earlier spawned damaging tornadoes and massive hail.

FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back that they are owed, two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded, and some will get more than that.