The Lexington-based Kentucky Equal Justice Center shut down operations Friday due to a lack of funding and an unpredictable political landscape.

Louisville-based spirits purveyor Brown-Forman says it’s closing its Louisville cooperage amid a 12% reduction in its workforce.

A supermajority of workers at an electric vehicle battery campus in Hardin County has filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board, asking for a union election. Employees of BlueOval SK have formally requested to vote on joining the United Auto Workers.

Eleven more locations for EV charging stations are planned for Kentucky.

ReImagine Appalachia analyzed data showing the region already has an outsized role in some manufacturing sectors. Armed with that knowledge, they say communities could attract similar green manufacturing companies and add good paying jobs.

Indiana’s unemployment rate for November stood at 4.4% for the second month in a row —the rate is still above the national average. New preliminary data shows the national unemployment rate for November stood at 4.2%, slightly lower than Indiana’s.

Toyota said Thursday it will build a new paint facility as part of a $922 million investment at its factory complex in Georgetown, Kentucky, making it the second big addition announced this year at the automaker's largest global manufacturing plant.

A large property has sat vacant and contaminated in Louisville’s majority-Black West End for years. But a new project adding affordable housing and commercial space could soon begin on treated soil.

A new Kentucky law allows alcohol confiscated from closed criminal investigations by the state’s alcoholic beverage control agency to be auctioned. Online bidding on one sale with some tough to find bourbons opens Wednesday and closes at midnight on Dec. 11.

Louisville Metro plans to clean and transform several alleyways in the Shawnee neighborhood into green spaces with a new grant-funded initiative.