Kentucky Government News

Daviess County Coroner Jeff Jones says the man died Monday evening after being taken to a hospital.

Almost a month to the day after it closed, the Dorena-Hickman Ferry in western Kentucky expects to resume service Tuesday.

Motorists traveling from the Nashville area toward Henderson on westbound Interstate 24 will find the Kentucky welcome center near Hopkinsville open during the busy Memorial Day travel weekend, according to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.

Kentuckians don't have to worry about an onslaught of noisy cicadas this year, though experts say they're about to emerge in the Northeast.

Mike Lawrence/The Gleaner Rust shows through a steel beam on the northbound twin bridge span.

This article caught me off guard as I read it in a Fox News.Com report stating political leaders in Kentucky had called a local retailer, the Urban Outfitters, to advise them to halt the sale of flasks, shot glasses and pint glasses because they look like real prescription pill bottles.

The Affordable Health Care Act and - according to Gov. Steve Beshear - a healthier lifestyle for citizens are coming to Kentucky.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is moving ahead with plans to replace a failed bridge on Kentucky 874 near the Lisman community south of Dixon in Webster County.

Kentuckians who take the high school equivalency test between Wednesday and July 31 will have their fee of $60 to $120 paid by Kentucky Adult Education.

Jessica Langley reacts as she realizes she's hitting a cone while driving a Global Electric Motors car with Fatal Vision goggles on during a drunk driving class at HCHS Thursday afternoon, October 28, 2010.

Locals traveling to central Kentucky might want to leave a little earlier, to account for road construction along the Mountain Parkway.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Henderson County Highway Maintenance Crew has set up an emergency lane restriction on US 41-Alternate between US 60 and the KY 425 Henderson Bypass at the south edge of Henderson.

The National Transportation Safety Board said the primary cause of the Delta Mariner's collision with the Eggners Ferry Bridge was the crew's reliance on a pilot's advice.

Governor Steve Beshear announced that asphalt rehabilitation projects totaling more than $64 million have been awarded by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet as the spring construction season continues.

Currently, 17 states and the District of Columbia, allow marijuana for medicinal use.

The governor's office says this could provide 332,000 of the 640,000 currently uninsured Kentuckians with coverage through the Health Benefit Exchange.

More than 324 years after architect Sir Christopher Wren constructed fake pillars at Windsor Town Hall near London to satisfy building inspectors, tourists remain fascinated with the good-for-nothing posts.

University of Kentucky political scientist Ernie Yanarella said if Grimes decides to get into the race she will have to set herself apart from Obama, particularly on the coal industry that has proven so influential in Kentucky politics.

American architecture, engineering, consulting, and construction firm HDR has been awarded a construction oversight assistance contract by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for the $1.3 billion Louisville-Southern-Indiana Ohio River Bridges project.

Republican operative David Adams filed a lawsuit this week in Franklin County Circuit Court to force a shutdown of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, the state-run option for ObamaCare in the Bluegrass State.