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Rate for 2022 decreased to 3.9%; lowest rate since Bureau of Labor Statistics began reporting FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 6, 2023) –Gov. Andy Beshear has announced that Kentucky set the lowest annual unemployment rate in state history for 2022 at 3.9%. This is the lowest rate seen since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began reporting […]

FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 2, 2023) – Gov. Andy Beshear, First Lady Britainy Beshear and Dr. Steven Stack attended the Team Kentucky update on Thursday to inform Kentuckians on economic development success; Read Across America; rebuilding and recovery efforts in Eastern Kentucky; the largest Kentucky State Police (KSP) recruitment class in years; and public health. The

The National Weather Service has issued this hazardous weather outlook for portions of Western Kentucky, Southwest Indiana, Southern Illinois, and Southeast Missouri. There is a marginal risk of severe storms tonight. Damaging winds, large hail, and isolated tornadoes are the main severe hazards. Heavy rain is expected tonight. With rainfall totals of 2 to 3

Crofton, Ky. – The Kentucky State Police requests the public’s help with locating a missing runaway Christian County teen. Kylee Greenwell, 14, was last seen at her residence on Poole Mill Road in Crofton at approximately 1 a.m. Wednesday.  She is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 105 pounds with hazel eyes and brown hair. 

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky House passed a bill Tuesday aimed at shoring up the state’s troubled juvenile justice system by bolstering treatment services and inserting considerably more funding. Taking up one of the most pressing issues before them, House members voted 79-18 to send the measure to the Senate after an hourlong debate.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican Ryan Quarles on Tuesday endorsed legalizing medical marijuana in Kentucky, pledging to navigate the proposal past legislative resistance if he’s elected governor. “It’s time for Kentucky to pass a responsible medical marijuana piece of legislation to help benefit patients across Kentucky,” Quarles said at a news conference outside the state

103 cadets to receive elite law enforcement training to serve and protect the commonwealth FRANKFORT, Ky. (Feb. 26, 2023) – Kentucky State Police (KSP) welcomed 103 new cades who will begin their career of service to the Commonwealth of Kentucky as a member of an elite group of law enforcement officers. “Wanting to wear the sacred

Investments to bring support and national attention to Kentucky’s growing entrepreneurial ecosystem FRANKFORT, Ky. (Feb. 27, 2023) –  Gov. Andy Beshear has announced that Kentucky will receive a $117 million award to expand access to capital for small businesses across the state through the U.S. Department of Treasury’s State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI). Kentucky will

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate overwhelmingly passed a measure Thursday that would give parents a pathway to challenge school instructional materials they consider unfit for children. The bill — Senate Bill 5 — aims to ensure the right for parental responses to books and other school materials containing explicit sexual content. It’s among

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky Senate committee advanced a bill Thursday to expand an address confidentiality program intended to protect domestic violence victims from their abusers. The measure builds on a limited, little-utilized program that shields victims’ home addresses from voter rolls. The program would be broadened to mask their addresses on other publicly

FRANKFORT, Ky. (February 22, 2023) – Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) and United States Army Corps of Engineers’ (the Corps) new rule re-defining the Waters of the United States (WOTUS).  Cameron said this final rule would unnecessarily burden farmers and landowners engaging in everyday

Kentucky State Police Madisonville Post is investigating an injury collision that occurred on the Western Kentucky Parkway in Muhlenberg County at about 8:05 a.m. Tuesday. 38-year-old Bronzson Lane of Princeton was traveling eastbound on the Western Kentucky Parkway in a 1993 Ford Explorer when his vehicle entered the median, crossed both westbound lanes and struck

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — University of Kentucky trustees have approved an $82 million renovation to Memorial Coliseum, putting the construction project on track to begin in March. The resolution calls for the project to be funded with a mix of bond and private funds. It was voted on by trustees on Friday, the Lexington Herald-Leader

FRANKFORT, Ky. (Feb. 16, 2023) – Gov. Andy Beshear has updated Kentuckians on economic development projects; general fund growth; the Brent Spence Bridge project; inclement weather; rebuilding and recovery efforts in Eastern Kentucky; orphan well plugging; and public health. He also named singer Chris Stapleton this week’s Team Kentucky All-Star. Economic DevelopmentOn Tuesday, Gov. Beshear joined leaders

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed legislation Wednesday that allocates more than $16 million in a final round of funding to build a veterans nursing home in Bowling Green. The bill signing at the statehouse culminated efforts spanning more than a decade to put a state veterans home in the fast-growing city