Collins, Kentucky’s only woman governor, dies at 88

Martha Layne Collins, who as the only woman to serve as governor of Kentucky revolutionized the state’s economy by landing Toyota Motor Manufacturing, died at 3 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, in Lexington. She was 88. Her husband, Dr. Bill Collins, said...

One-dollar duck sale raises money for women’s business RSO

Rubber ducks are a simple trinket, but for Anna Withers they represent much more. The little yellow birds have, on many occasions now for Anna Withers, come to mean opportunity, purpose and a way to give back to something much bigger than herself....

Political pressure at UT

Students protest the University of Texas System Regents for firing UT President Homer Rainey Nov. 2, 1944. ND-44-123a-03 Austin History Center. When university system regents and state lawmakers last sought to deepen their control over the...

New report shares data trends on Kentucky’s rural economy

LEXINGTON — A new report by Blueprint Kentucky provides data on Kentucky’s rural economy. Blueprint Kentucky (formerly CEDIK) is an integrated research and outreach unit within the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food...

'Not what we voted for': Midwestern Trump country is suffering from MAGA economy

In 2024, Donald Trump became the first president in U.S. history to win an election despite four criminal indictments — one of which resulted in a conviction on 34 counts — and two impeachments. And the thing that did the most to get Trump past...

'We're so dang close.' Hugh Freeze shares thoughts after Kentucky loss

Stop me if you have heard this statement from Hugh Freeze before... "we're so dang close." Freeze muttered those words again Saturday night following the Auburn Tigers' 10-3 loss to the Kentucky Wildcats at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn. Freeze...

Real World Economics: Senators wake up and smell the tariffs

Edward Lotterman How do members of Congress differ from the beef our nation imports? All bones have been removed from most beef, but congressional representatives have only lost their spines. Until this past week that joke held true. But last week...

Los demócratas están ganando la política del cierre del Gobierno. ¿Pueden detenerse ahora?

Análisis de Aaron Blake, CNN Después de que terminó el cierre del Gobierno de EE.UU. en 2013, los líderes republicanos dejaron en claro que solo habían complacido al senador Ted Cruz y su plan para desfinanciar el programa Obamacare. “No fue una...

Former Kentucky Gov. Martha Layne Collins dies at 88

LEXINGTON, Kentucky — Martha Layne Collins, the first and only woman elected governor of Kentucky, died on Saturday. She was 88. The Democrat’s most visible legacy is a sprawling Toyota auto assembly plant — arguably the biggest industrial plum of...

Trump policies spur economic anxiety in US Republican heartland: ‘Tariffs are affecting everything’

For decades, a line of storefronts in Jeffersonville, Ohio, a town of 1,200 people 40 minutes south-west of Columbus, lay empty. But now locals are hard at work renovating the downtown and paving streets in anticipation of a potential economic...

Kentucky political journalist Barry Peel dies at 80

ChatGPT said: LEXINGTON, KY. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) – Longtime Kentucky TV journalist Barry Peel has died. According to the Kentucky Lantern, Peel passed away Friday at the Stanford Crossing Rehabilitation Center in Stanford. He was 80 years old. Peel...

Kentucky remembers former Governor Martha Layne Collins, dead at 88

LEXINGTON, KY. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) –Kentuckians are mourning the passing of Martha Layne Collins — the Commonwealth’s first and only woman to serve as governor. Collins, who was the 56th governor of Kentucky, passed away earlier today at the age of...

Kentucky T-shirt campaign raises more than 58,000 meals as SNAP pause takes effect

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) – As SNAP benefits are set to pause at midnight, leaving an estimated 600,000 Kentuckians impacted, people across the state are stepping up to help their neighbors. The Kentucky Shop has launched a “Kentucky Strong”...

Kentuckians face losing SNAP benefits

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) – Food banks across Kentucky are preparing for a surge in need as federal SNAP benefits are set to expire Saturday if Congress fails to reach an agreement to extend funding. Once benefits expire, more than 600,000...

Kentucky woman calls 911 after finding human body parts in package delivery

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (WSMV) - WSMV has obtained 911 calls from when a woman discovered that she had received human body parts in a package after a delivery mix-up this week in Kentucky. The Hopkinsville woman discovered two arms and four fingers...

Kentucky Newsmakers 11/3: Ky. Sen. Greg Elkins; Ky. Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Ashli Watts

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - On the latest edition of Kentucky Newsmakers, WKYT’s Bill Bryant talks with Kentucky State Senator Greg Elkins and Kentucky Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Ashli Watts. Out first guest is state Senator Greg Elkins....

Democrats are winning the shutdown politics. Can they stop now?

After the 2013 government shutdown ended, Republican leaders made clear they had only been humoring Sen. Ted Cruz and his plot to defund Obamacare. “It was not a smart play. It had no chance of success,” then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell...

“Battle-tested” Amy McGrath vies to be next U.S. senator for Kentucky

Senator Mitch McConnell is retiring from the U.S. Senate when his term ends, setting up an open race for his seat in 2026. Republican and Democratic candidates are already throwing their hats in the ring for their respective primaries, among them...

Kentucky's first female governor, Martha Layne Collins, dies at 88

Former Kentucky governor Martha Layne Collins has died.A Democrat, Collins served as Kentucky's first female governor between 1983 and 1987.Current Gov. Andy Beshear announced the news in a statement released by his office on Saturday."Today...

Kentucky's first female Governor Martha Layne Collins dead at 88

Kentucky's first and only female governor Martha Layne Collins has died at the age of 88. Collins died in her sleep at Richmond Place Retirement Community in Lexington early Saturday morning, her husband Dr. Bill Collins told Kentucky Lantern. 'I...