Kentucky Lantern

09/11/2026

Long-time Louisville reporter and anchor Mark Vanderhoff died Friday after a nearly two-year battle against a form of brain cancer, glioblastoma. He was 50.

Long-time Louisville reporter and anchor Mark Vanderhoff died Friday after a nearly two-year battle against a form of brain cancer.

09/11/2026

A heartbreaking case any way you look at it

A judge has cleared the way for a one-year-old girl in foster care to be reunited with her birth mother who is scheduled to be deported to Guatemala and currently is in custody of U.S. Immigration and Enforcement.

09/11/2026

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency is again seeking public comments on a proposal to redefine what waters receive federal environmental protections, a move that could also have a broad impact on state water protections in Kentucky.

09/11/2026

From 2001 to 2009, I was one of a handful of caretakers of the Flight 93 crash site in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

09/10/2026

Saying a judge has “slammed the door shut and thrown away the key,” a lawyer for former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is asking the state Court of Appeals to order his immediate release from jail for contempt of court.

09/10/2026

Ky county permanently bans data center construction

Woodford County has approved an ordinance this week to permanently ban data center construction, the first Kentucky county to do so.

09/10/2026

Ahead of elections that could determine control of Congress and states for the rest of President Donald Trump’s second term, Democratic governors say they are happy to talk to voters about the president’s policies.

09/10/2026

The Ford Motor Co. will build a new $1 billion paint shop at the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, breaking ground by the end of the year, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday.

09/10/2026

The number of ICE detainees in Kentucky jails is growing, but the public knows less, according to new reports.

09/09/2026

Bruce Lunsford, who founded Fortune 500 healthcare company Vencor, served as Gov. John Y. Brown Jr.’s commerce secretary and ran unsuccessfully twice for governor of Kentucky and once for U.S. Senate, died Sept. 5 in Louisville.