A homeless outreach nonprofit in Louisville is close to opening a new type of facility. The St. John Center’s permanent supportive housing complex will offer places to live and get help all in one place.

The Smoketown Community Land Trust aims to build affordable housing in the neighborhood, with Theresa Boyd as its new executive director.

The lack of a final resolution around tariffs with close trade partners has left some elected leaders and industry officials concerned about Kentucky bourbon. American whiskey exports slumped amid an earlier trade dispute during Trump’s first term.

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.