By Jeff Young – Key races across Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia went to candidates who showed strong support for coal. Coal operator and billionaire Jim Justice won the governor’s race in West Virginia, one of the few Democrats to prevail in the region’s statewide races. Justice got the United Mine Workers endorsement despite his failure…
by ALAN LYTLE – Kentucky voters have spoken with a loud and clear voice. They overwhelmingly supported Republican Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton and they enabled the GOP to takeover the State House of Representatives…ending a nearly century long hold on the chamber by Democrats. This means that Republican Governor Matt Bevin now has majorities in…
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS – Republican Gov. Matt Bevin said Kentucky’s new Republican legislature would overhaul the state’s tax code in 2017, but it would most likely have to happen in a special session. Bevin told WHAS radio host Leland Conway that tax reform “will happen” in 2017, but said it is unrealistic to think the legislature…
by Martha Elson , @MarthaElson_cj – Prospect city leaders have agreed to spend up to $100,000 in legal fees to fight a proposed 198-unit, affordable-living apartment complex for seniors called Prospect Cove off River Road, just outside the city limits. It would be “way out of character” and add to heavy traffic in the area, Prospect Mayor John Evans said.…
BY CHERYL TRUMAN, ctruman@herald-leader.com – Kentucky Mist Moonshine has finally been able to register trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The small Whitesburg company had been engaged in battle with the University of Kentucky over its attempt to register in a trademark category that includes hats, hooded sweatshirts, jackets, pants, shirts, shoes and socks.…
by WKYT News Staff | FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet issued an emergency order Monday for truckers hauling gasoline. The order temporarily allows those workers. to work longer hours. This is in response to a gas pipeline explosion in Alabama last week. The transportation cabinet hopes the order will avoid a gas supply…
by The Associated Press – FRANKFORT, KY. — Five Kentucky county fairs have been awarded grants totaling more than $455,000 from the state Department of Agriculture. State Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles says the grants are for fairground construction and remodeling. The department says the fair boards in Nelson, Harrison and Hancock counties will receive $100,000 each.…
by Bailey Loosemore , @bloosemore – For 20 years, the Volunteers of America Mid-States was able to get by with eight to 10 beds in its Freedom House program, which provides residential treatment for pregnant women struggling with addiction. But since 2013, a community-wide rise in heroin and opioid use has caused the nonprofit to see a drastic…
by Krystle Callais – LEXINGTON, KY –Two U.S. Senate candidates will be stopping in the western Kentucky area on Monday. Senator Rand Paul and Lexington Mayor Jim Gray will be making stops across Kentucky as a final push to get votes. Both are running for the U.S. Senate seat which Paul currently holds. Locally, Paul…
by Ryland Barton – Election night in Frankfort last year was supposed to be a celebration for Kentucky Democrats ushering Attorney General Jack Conway into the governorship, just as all the polls had predicted would happen. Instead, at the GOP bash in Louisville, newly elected Gov. Matt Bevin led the crowd in the now-familiar chant of…