Any legislation making water fluoridation optional in Kentucky must also include guarantees that the community would have a true say in the decisions.

I’m a lifelong Kentuckian who has lived in both rural and urban Kentucky. I have seen how access to dental care can be extremely difficult regardless of where you call home. Early on, my mother drove ...

From 2017–2021, 21% of new mothers in Kentucky were not screened for depression or anxiety, shows the report by the Kentucky Commission on Women and Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear rejected an effort to remake the leadership of the state’s broadband network KentuckyWired.

Two Kentucky voters and voting rights groups hope to intervene in a case between the state and the DOJ over sharing sensitive voter data.

The Pentagon has identified the seventh soldier to have died in the ongoing Iran war as from Kentucky. A Pentagon release ...

Since 2023, a “mass exodus of foster parents” as a reason for leaving, has worsened the shortage of traditional foster settings.

Brian McKnight is a professor of history and the founding director of the Center for Appalachian Studies at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise. He is completing a history of the Scotia mine ...

In 2024, the legislature made it a Class D felony to assault a health care worker. Still, health care workers face high rates ...

Kentucky will reap the consequences of its legislature dehumanizing everyone from the LGBTQ community to immigrants.

The GOP sponsor of a bill reshaping the state utility regulator eliminated provisions that critics warned would silence the ...

The University of Kentucky has named one of its graduates, U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, as the next dean of its ...