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The Kentucky General Assembly just enacted its first substantial update to the state’s abortion ban since that law took effect in 2022.

Republicans say new legislation clarifies when life-saving abortions are legal. But it adds anti-abortion language and could subject doctors to tougher scrutiny in court.

Hear from a Jefferson County Public Schools student about what it means to have a school bus again.

The Lexington Herald-Leader’s Taylor Six spent months investigating jail deaths across the state.

Lawmakers want to cut off extra funding for multilingual students after four years.

Republicans pushed an unexpected update to Kentucky’s abortion ban through the state legislature this week, passing it in less than 24 hours.

Environmentalists say Senate Bill 89 still guts pollution protections for streams and many drinking water supplies.

In 1961 a teenager led a movement that helped overturn racial segregation in Louisville.

Last month, no Kentucky law enforcement had formal partnerships with immigration agents. That just changed.

Environmental advocates, including author Silas House, gathered to urge lawmakers not to pass a bill allowing more water pollution.

Kentucky lawmakers may vote to allow unrestricted pollution of the sources of many drinking water supplies. Here’s where, and how, people could be especially affected.

A former Clark County Council member is the third person to plead guilty in the investigation of former Sheriff Jamey Noel.