Alex Acquisto covers state politics and health for the Lexington Herald-Leader and Kentucky.com. She joined the newspaper in June 2019 as a corps member with Report for America, a ...

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Former employees of Kentucky's largest drug rehab provider say they were instructed to falsify invoices to overbill Medicaid.

Father Joe Mitchell returned home to Kentucky to create a nonprofit center that brings people closer to God and the natural world.

Implementation of a previously approved federal rule meant to help prevent black lung in the nation’s coal miners has been delayed indefinitely, according to an update posted this week in the Federal ...

The Kentucky Supreme Court is ordering lawmakers to drop impeachment proceedings against a circuit judge in Lexington.

Eastern Kentucky University is set to get about $50 million in the next two-year state budget to move it closer to accreditation for a future osteopathic medicine school. The university has been ...

Kentucky state Sen. Julie Raque Adams has been paid $80,500 as executive director of a nonprofit funded by interests that ...

Senate President Robert Stivers responded Wednesday to a Kentucky Supreme Court ruling ordering lawmakers to halt the impeachment of a Lexington judge, but it’s unclear if the Senate will comply with ...