Morgan Watkins
Investigative Reporter, Health & EnvironmentMorgan covers health and the environment for LPM's Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. She hails from Florida, where she started her career covering city and county government at the Gainesville Sun. Louisville has been her home since 2016.
She covered national and state politics, as well as higher education, for The Courier Journal before joining LPM.
Email Morgan at mwatkins@lpm.org and follow her on Bluesky @morganwatkins.lpm.org.
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Republicans pushed an unexpected update to Kentucky’s abortion ban through the state legislature this week, passing it in less than 24 hours. -
An unusual coalition says they want to ensure Kentucky doctors aren’t afraid to give life-saving abortions. Reproductive rights advocates say their plan could make things worse for women. -
Environmentalists say Senate Bill 89 still guts pollution protections for streams and many drinking water supplies. -
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. -
State lawmakers may approve a bill that would reduce what types of evidence government regulators can use to prove people or companies caused unauthorized air pollution. -
A vaping company owes Kentucky millions of dollars. Advocates want it spent to protect kids from tobacco addiction. -
El presidente Donald Trump quiere que los oficiales a nivel local ayuden a deportar inmigrantes. En este artículo, descubra lo que las agencias encargadas de aplicar la ley en Kentucky le compartieron a KyCIR sobre este tema. -
President Donald Trump wants local officers to help deport immigrants. Here’s what Kentucky law enforcement told KyCIR about that.
