Frankfort News

On the same day Attorney General Jack Conway asked Gov. Steve Beshear to set execution dates for three convicted killers, several private attorneys and the Department of Public Advocacy asked the governor to implement a moratorium on state executions.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals has dismissed a case brought by Kentucky news organizations seeking the release of a 1983 statement given by road contractor Leonard Lawson to criminal investigators. Lawson gave the statement to investigators of the Attorney General's...

Kentucky has borrowed roughly half a billion dollars from the federal government this year to pay benefits to unemployed workers � money the state likely will have to pay back when the economy recovers. The fast-growing deficit in the unemployment...

The former state official in charge of issuing mine permits said Tuesday that he was fired after refusing to go along with what he believes is an illegal policy that primarily benefited a politically powerful coal company, Alliance Resource Partners....

The motto listed on Kentucky Association of Counties (KACo) reads: “Working for you in ways you never imagined.” A lot of county officials and taxpayers must be thinking today that’s a whopper of an understatement. State Auditor Crit Luallen on...