Paradise, California has been nearly destroyed. The deadliest fire in California history took 85 lives, destroyed 14,000 homes and structures and left 153,336 acres of woodland charred. Paradise became a picture of hell on earth. The heat and flames, acrid smoke and...

The picture of Christmas is one of good cheer: family and friends surrounding a dinner table, presents being exchanged— good feelings all around. But this isn't the case for everyone. Some will have no families to celebrate with and others have such painful...

The Eastern Kentucky city of Somerset is updating its human rights ordinance to elevate sexual orientation and gender identity to civil right status. The goal is to protect those in the LGBT community from unjust discrimination. They're called fairness laws but...

Public profanity seems to be on the rise but if you're living in the West Kentucky City of Paducah, you may be hearing more of it. That's because the Paducah City Commission is repealing a 50-year old law that restricts profanity within the city. This is on...

13 federal government agencies released a report with dire warnings about climate change. The report concludes that extreme hot weather is getting more common, and cold weather more rare; That sea levels will continue to rise and that forest fires will intensify....

According to Wallethub, Kentucky ranks second in the nation when it comes to collecting and distributing food to the needy. This is good, but we're in last place when it comes to the percentage of people who donate their time. And we're 48th in the nation with...

Last week, CPC held a press conference in the state Capitol and raised concerns over the proposed Oak Grove casino expansion.  We also raised concerns over Attorney General Andy Beshear's memo urging legislators to legalize casinos and dedicating the revenue...

There's a lot of talk about what a casino would do to boost tax revenue but consider what Les Bernal shared in a Congressional Committee last month. "Americans are expected to lose $118 billion of their personal wealth to commercialized gambling in 2018. [T]he...

The Gov.-elect of Kansas Laura Kelly is opposed to a law that protects religious freedom for faith-based adoption and foster care agencies. The laws intended to protect the religious convictions of the agencies and shield them from being forced to place children in...

The Trump administration approved a plan to incentivize benefits for Kentucky's Medicaid recipients. This is round two since a federal judge struck down the original Medicaid requirements back in June. The judge said the state didn't consider how it will...