The move follows notices from rural hospitals that necessary cutbacks are coming. Senate Health Committee Chairman Stephen Meredith (R — Leitchfield) understands the problem of rural health-care ...

Additional help through an existing program is meant to create more jobs in every part of the state, especially rural ...

Two bills introduced this year aim to help solve Kentucky's physician shortage, especially in rural areas.

With Mitch McConnell retiring and Andy Barr opting to run for the upper chamber, a rare open House seat is now in play.

The latest version of the state budget could effectively “wipe out” Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Program in Kentucky, ...

Advocates with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library are sounding the alarm, saying the latest version of the Kentucky state ...

Once-domesticated horses abandoned on old mining sites in eastern Kentucky have been roaming free for decades, and their growing population is now straining the land, threatening wildlife and causing ...

WellCare of Kentucky and Centene Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Centene Corp., today announced an investment of $550,000 to launch the WellCare Food is Medicine Program to address ...

New data from the US Census Bureau revealed that the rural state's population climbed to 4,606,864 in July 2025, marking an increase of 18,492 residents in just one year alone.

Harriette Simpson Arnow, the Kentucky writer who chronicled the Appalachian diaspora in novels like "The Dollmaker," grew up in Pulaski County, and used its wooded hills and lush riversheds in vivid ...

Local farmers in Richland, Morrow and Ashland counties are receiving more than $1.7 million back from Farm Credit Mid-America in March as part of its annual patronage distribution, the organization ...

March is both Women’s History Month and Endometriosis Awareness Month. Both physicians said they take pride in being women in ...