The process for filling a vacant US Senate seat in Kentucky has changed twice in the last four years. Here’s what to know about the current law.

Sen. Mitch McConnell obviously is not a robust fellow at the age of 82 and recent incidents at least suggest the time has ...

A Manual High School senior is one of only two students from Kentucky selected for the prestigious United States Senate Youth Program.

Kentucky law requires a special election to fill a Senate vacancy, differing from most states where the governor appoints a replacement.

A survivor of childhood polio, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s frailty has been the subject of private conversations in the Senate for ...

In December, the senator from Kentucky sustained a cut to his face and a sprained wrist after falling during a Senate ...

After Senator Mitch McConnell suffered yet another fall Wednesday, the question of whether members of Congress should have ...

A spokesman for McConnell said the 82-year-old senator is "fine" and using a wheelchair “purely as a precautionary measure." ...

Mitch McConnell, the 82-year-old Republican senator from Kentucky, fell after voting to confirm Scott Turner as the US ...

Archaeologists found Viking skeletons over 1,000 years old buried with a crystal and other treasures. They're improving our ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell has said he will finish his term, but his fall Wednesday sparked questions about the process for filling ...

Reports: In his latest health incident, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell fell down the Senate stairs in Washington, D.C.