In Frankfort, AG Russell Coleman oversees an Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control that is supposed to protect nursing home residents from abuse, neglect and exploitation. But his spokespeople did not respond to questions about what he has done about nursing homes in recent years.

Matt Bevin had filed an emergency motion that requested an extension to turn in those documents. Judge Angela Johnson denied it.

NEW: Addiction Recovery Care owner Tim Robinson has been federally indicted by a grand jury for wire fraud & other money crimes. www.kentucky.com/news/local/c...

In an interview on Meet the Press, the Northern Kentucky Republican says he will take time to decide if he will remain in politics.

Senate Bill 185, passed earlier this year, changes Kentucky State University into a polytechnic university to focus on workforce training.

Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex near West Liberty already ranked highest for smuggling reports among Kentucky prisons.

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Several Eastern Kentucky judge-executives lost their reelection bids in Tuesday night’s primary.

The Herald-Leader has published many stories over the past two years based on interviews with women in and around Kentucky politics about their experiences with Grossberg. Grossberg came in third place.

Incumbent Democratic Kentucky state Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton may also lose her reelection bid. It's close with more than 95% of votes reported, per AP/NYT. She has had a couple of brushes with the law for drunk driving, which gave us some truly iconic quotes. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Thomas Massie has previously not ruled out a run for Kentucky governor in 2027, by the way. From January: www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

And it wasn't nearly as close as folks thought it would be.

Congressman Hal Rogers, who is now 88, has won the GOP nomination for Kentucky's 5th Congressional District for the umpteenth time. From when he sat down with @austin-horn.bsky.social in December:

An early call for the #KYSen GOP race: Rep. Andy Barr wins. More on that race here! www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Locked and loaded for two-term Mayor Linda Gorton's election night press conference at the *check notes* Zandale Ramsey's parking lot.

See live results for key races, including the U.S. Senate primary, the battle for KY-04 and more.

Starting KY election thread here. Gallrein and Barr leading the absentee vote in Kenton County. Hard to read too much into it, but it's a good sign for Barr and probably a neutral (or slightly pro-Gallrein) one for Massie/Gallrein.

Ross told the H-L she felt Grossberg’s interactions with her in an incident that took place in her dorm room amounted to sexual assault. Ross said she denied Grossberg’s requests for sex and attempted to leave; Grossberg then grabbed her arm in anger and tried to prevent her from leaving, she said.

New #KYSen: It might seem grim to compare your electoral odds to that of a 90 y/o woman giving birth. But, quoting the Bible, Daniel Cameron did just that. How a faith-on-his-sleeve approach & an odd coalition keep the promise of a Cameron miracle alive. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

As someone who likes going to bed at a reasonable hour, I very much hope we don't see this put to use tonight, but... The threshold for automatic recounts in Kentucky elections is a margin of 0.5% of the vote or less.

Today is primary day in Georgia, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Alabama! Want to keep up with the coverage? Follow these politics reporters and elections experts for the very latest go.bsky.app/MzBvdW8

Kentucky has a plethora of interesting downballot races this primary election cycle. Here are four you should watch on May 19.

Between absentee voting and in-person early voting, 184,992 Kentuckians had voted as of Monday morning. The Secretary of State is predicting "just north of 20% turnout in the May 2026 primary." Tomorrow is election day.

Pamela Stevenson, Dale Romans and Amy McGrath weigh in on the filibuster, healthcare & more. Other Democrats, GOP candidates didn’t weigh in.

State inspectors say the nursing home’s air conditioning went out around the same time in July 2025, leaving residents in stifling heat.

The primary election is May 19.

Nearly one in five coal companies would have been out of compliance with rules that are being held up by federal regulators and lawsuits.

New: a former college classmate alleges KY state Rep Daniel Grossberg assaulted her & made unwanted sexual advances in 2005 when she was a freshman and he was a 26-yr-old senior. She is making these claims on the record & has an accompanying police report. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

“I’ve asked Nate to step aside from that Race to take a role in my Administration as an Ambassador,” Trump wrote Friday.

President Donald Trump has endorsed longtime Central Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr in this year’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Petrey says the Democratic Party won’t win back the 6th Congressional District by running squishy centrists who don’t stand for anything.

Stevenson, a self-described ‘mountain Democrat,’ cites her competitive campaigns winning a state House district as she runs for Congress.

Former federal prosecutor Dembo, a onetime aide to Gov. Andy Beshear, leads in campaign fundraising and endorsements from Beshear’s cabinet.

Kloiber, a former Lexington councilman, says his messages on housing, health care and wages will impress even the voters who backed Trump.

The Herald-Leader voter guide is live, with all you need to know on Kentucky's U.S. Senate race, the Central Kentucky House race and other key contests we're watching:

A bill given final passage on the final day of the 2026 General Assembly names new officials animals of Kentucky. Here’s what they are.

More than 1,000 bills were filed this year. But only a fraction of them will make it into Kentucky law.

The initial budget bill would have cut millions from Kentucky’s public colleges and universities in the next two fiscal years.

While lawmakers introduced more than 1,000 non-budget-related bills, most didn’t make it across the finish line. These bills did not pass.

Kentucky lawmakers wanted to address long wait times at the state’s regional licensing offices, but struggled to agree on a solution.

Coleman’s announcement serves as the unofficial kickoff to the 2027 campaign. No other prominent politician has declared for the office.

In case you were wondering how the Kentucky General Assembly has handled being smacked down by the Supreme Court in the matter of Judge Goodman, I think we have enough evidence to suggest they didn't like it one bit. (We've embedded the resolutions in these stories since they're not online yet.)

The Kentucky General Assembly overrode Beshear’s vetoes on multiple bills, including election law changes and increased Medicaid oversight.

NEW: Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center touts a Christian message and a selfless commitment to helping others. But internally, the organization prioritized money over the well-being of its clients and staff, interviews show. W/ @kentucky.com www.propublica.org/article/kent...

ICYMI: @aacquisto.bsky.social was on @wbur.org's Here & Now to talk about her reporting with @taylorsixhl.bsky.social on Kentucky-based Addiction Recovery Care's alleged widespread Medicaid billing fraud. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center touts a Christian message and a selfless commitment to helping others. But internally, the organization prioritized money over the well-being of its clients and staff, interviews show. New, with @propublica.org: www.kentucky.com/news/state/a...

President Robert Stivers' first public statement on the recent state Supreme Court ruling in the Judge Julie Goodman impeachment matter was released with a full schedule for a Senate trial.

A Franklin Circuit Court judge on Tuesday voided the impeachment of Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman, saying she committed no offenses or misconduct that rose to the level of impeachment. We've got the order embedded for those of you who want to see it. 👇

With a last-minute shell bill, lawmakers want to bring major cuts to Kentucky State University, the only public HBCU in the state. The advancing bill would reduce the school to 10 majors and limit enrollment, which would likely reduce faculty and staff.