KPR

One of several GOP bills to limit property taxes on elderly homeowners with a constitutional amendment has cleared a Kentucky Senate committee.

As federal immigration policies spark protests across the country, Kentucky GOP lawmakers filed at least five bills designed to encourage or require more local and state participation in immigration enforcement.

Republicans in the Kentucky Senate gave priority status to a bill that could return driver’s license renewals back to county offices, citing long wait times at regional offices.

Several Republican legislators are drafting bills to increase the housing supply and combat homelessness in Kentucky.

Truffle cultivators are becoming increasingly common across Appalachia and the southeast region, and say the climate and soil quality are ideal for growing the coveted fungi.

Bowling Green and Paducah are two of the sites where protesters gathered to denounce the killing of a Minnesota woman who was shot to death by a ICE agent.

The candidate filing deadline passed Friday in Kentucky, with Democrats again leaving many General Assembly races unchallenged to the Republican supermajority.

A naturalized citizen was inspired to run for the Kentucky House a day after GOP bills were filed to ban immigrants from public office, saying it’s “not the time to sit on the sidelines.”

Protesters marched through the streets of downtown Louisville on Thursday evening from Metro Hall to a nearby federal customs and immigration office for a moment of silence.

A Republican lawmaker has filed two bills designed to keep naturalized Americans and those with dual citizenship from serving in local or state elected offices in Kentucky.