How will the 2025 government shutdown impact Kentucky? Here are five ways how the commonwealth was affected in 2018 and 2019.

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. – Parts of Kentucky have recently suffered historic flooding, causing some damage at Mammoth Cave National Park. Among the impacts from the severe storms, the Green River ferry ...

Roads and trails may remain open during the government shutdown, but many visitor services are expected to temporarily cease.

Mammoth Cave, the world's longest known cave system, stretches 426 miles under Kentucky. The cave's limestone began forming 330 million years ago when the region was submerged under an ocean. Visitors ...

National parks. It seems post-COVID, we can't get enough of the outdoors and the natural beauty of America. Kentucky boasts one national park (Mammoth Cave) and two national historical parks (Abraham ...

In our Uniquely Kentucky stories, Herald-Leader journalists bring you the quirky and cool, historic and infamous, beloved and unforgettable, and everything-in-between stories of what makes our ...

Deep beneath the rolling hills of Kentucky, in the extensive labyrinth of Mammoth Cave National Park, scientists have made an ...

Experts say it had a distinct curved row of teeth, used to crush small sea creatures. The fossils found are estimated to be 355 million years old, back when Mammoth Cave was nothing but warm shallow ...

Film industry pioneer Madame Sul-Te-Wan, General Burnside Island State Resort Park, and more. Researchers have uncovered the fossilized teeth of ancient shark species at Mammoth Cave; Madame ...

Beneath the surface of an otherwise unassuming National Park, a labyrinth showcases hundreds of millions of years of geologic history. Each shade of tan layered on the walls represents a different era ...