Business & Economic Development

An NPR investigation finds thousands of veterans were pushed into high-cost mortgages by a program that was meant to help them. A rescue plan being rolled out by the Department of Veterans Affairs is excluding many vets who need help.

The United States is getting back into the TNT game for the first time in nearly four decades, and Kentucky is the setting.

The overall jobs American employers added in October was depressed by a machinists' strike at Boeing and Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

Older homes are the only ones many Americans can afford, but they are costly to fix and maintain, especially for seniors. A patchwork of programs to help are underfunded and have years-long waitlists.

Dosker Manor, the troubled downtown affordable housing complex, is expected to be demolished, and new housing eventually built on the site.

Industry experts say the decline of what was once one of Kentucky farms’ top crops coincides with shifts in tobacco consumption habits and to the long tail effect of the Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act signed into law by former President George W. Bush 20 years ago this month.

In western North Carolina, tubing, rafting and kayaking shops are assessing whether the rivers will be safe enough to open by next Summer following the devastating damage from the remnants of Hurricane Helene.

Walgreens says about a quarter of its stores are unprofitable. Big pharmacy chains are struggling with growing retail competition and lower prescription payouts.

A little less than three years after a destructive, historic tornado outbreak tore through downtown Mayfield, the small western Kentucky community is still making strides towards recovery.

Kentucky has issued its first-ever medical marijuana license.