Investigations

We’re launching a project to shed light on housing issues in Louisville that widen inequity between communities.

Forty-six people on home incarceration have died since 2017 in Louisville, including seven in 2022 alone, according to data KyCIR requested from Metro Corrections.

Out of this year’s 289 nonpartisan judicial elections held across the state, 210 are uncontested.

Adeshina Emmanuel officially start June 13 and will manage KyCIR's five-person reporting team. He comes to KyCIR from Injustice Watch.

In a complaint issued on May 19, the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board based in Cincinnati accuses the office management, led by Chief Public Defender Leo Smith, of violating federal labor laws by “failing and refusing to bargain collectively and in good faith.”

Reporting from WFPL News and the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting has won two prestigious regional journalism awards.

A conservative dark money group is influencing public welfare laws in Kentucky, and advocates say it could have a detrimental impact on access to benefits for the state’s most vulnerable residents.

A woman's death is putting a renewed focus on the flaws in the city's criminal justice system that harm victims of domestic violence, and allow offenders to avoid accountability.

Louisville, KY — Louisville Public Media’s Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (KyCIR) has again been nominated for a Peabody Award, one of the…

When KyCIR visited the site on Thursday, Hope Village sat nearly empty. The tents on display during last week's press conference were gone, leaving only ten wooden platforms.

Despite years of urging by child welfare experts, and even though Kentucky has some of the highest rates of child maltreatment and opioid abuse in the nation, family recovery courts are still not widely available throughout the state

UK HealthCare has powerful debt collection tools at its disposal thanks to its partnership with the Department of Revenue, which can garnish wages, levy bank accounts or intercept tax returns to get at money allegedly owed to the university — all without a court order.