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On Tuesday Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton laid out her budget proposal for fiscal year 2024/25. WUKY’s Karyn Czar reports.
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Kentucky’s 2024 Legislative session wrapped up Monday. The state’s Republican majority celebrates their wins, while Democratic leaders express frustration over what they say was a lack of cooperation.
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A Kentucky Democratic lawmaker made a failed eleventh-hour push to debate exceptions for rape and incest in the state's near-total abortion ban on the final day of the General Assembly.
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Kentucky has a new state education commissioner, now that the state Senate has signed off on his appointment.
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Starting in January 2025, Kentuckians will be able to purchase medical cannabis in-state. House Bill 829 has passed legislature and heads to the governor’s desk.
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With hours remaining in the 2024 Kentucky General Assembly, Republican lawmakers are celebrating big ticket bills that have reached final passage as they wrap up legislative business. But some questions do linger as the clock ticks down.
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Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart says he can’t comment on a lawsuit filed by two former swim team members against him, the school and former coach Lars Jorgensen, alleging sexual assaults including rape by Jorgensen and claiming the school “purposefully” disregarded multiple credible reports of inappropriate sexual relationships.
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Mark Pope was introduced as Kentucky men's basketball coach and didn't mince words, saying “We are here to win banners.” His introduction came two days after Kentucky hired him to replace John Calipari, a Hall of Fame coach who was hired by Arkansas on Wednesday after 15 years highlighted by winning the 2012 national championship.
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Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Friday removed the Democratic governor from any role filling future U.S. Senate vacancies — a movesupporters said was unrelated to recent scrutiny about the health of the state's senior senator, Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
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The nominee for Kentucky Education Commissioner appears poised for confirmation by the Senate by Monday.
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Kentucky's GOP-dominated legislature is knocking out Gov. Andy Beshear's vetoes one by one as the session winds down.
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Kentucky has hired BYU’s Mark Pope as men’s basketball coach, bringing home a member of the Wildcats’ 1996 national championship team to succeed John Calipari. The school announced the 51-year-old Pope’s hiring in a release on Friday morning but did not mention any contract details.