Alabama’s only cruise ship will continue docking at the port of Mobile. Mayor Sandy Stimpson says the city has extended its contract with Carnival Cruise Line for the company to keep offering trips aboard the Carnival Fantasy from Mobile.

The number of unlicensed day cares is falling in Alabama. According to numbers from the Alabama Department of Human Resources, the number of day cares that claim a licensure exemption dropped from 953 to 838 over the last year, The Montgomery Advertiser reported.

Authorities say a woman asleep in her home has been killed after an impaired driver crashed into her bedroom. Huntsville police said 53-year-old Anthony Wu was charged with manslaughter after the crash around 11:30 p.m. Saturday killed 48-year-old Joy Vaughn.

A lawsuit filed against former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley by his one-time law enforcement secretary will go to trial in March. Court records show that Montgomery Circuit Judge Greg Griffin set a March 4 trial date for the case.

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An energy project proposed for southeast Alabama could become the state’s largest solar farm. The Dothan Eagle reports that Houston County commissioners have approved a 10-year property tax abatement for about 1,000 acres of land selected for a huge solar array.

Four Gulf states are getting an additional $280 million in restoration grants from the BP oil spill of 2010. Louisiana is getting $161.4 million to restore two barrier islands and a headland in the Terrebonne Basin.

The Trump administration’s top environmental official for the Southeast was arrested Thursday on criminal ethics charges in Alabama reported to be related to a scheme to help a coal company avoid paying for a costly toxic waste cleanup. Trey Glenn, 47, was briefly booked into a county jail in Birmingham before being released on a […]

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Alabama’s infant death rate has fallen to an all-time low, just a year after it was among the worst in the nation, health officials said Thursday. The Alabama Department of Public Health said new figures show the state’s infant mortality rate declined to 7.4 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2017.

A convicted rapist and murderer has been denied parole in a decades-old kidnapping case. WSFA-TV reports the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles denied parole to Jerry Lee Jones on Wednesday.

Police say an Alabama man threw hot sauce on a 73-year-old store clerk during a holdup. The Opelika-Auburn News reports that police in the east Alabama town of Valley arrived at a convenience store Sunday morning to find the clerk in pain with orange liquid on her face and in her eyes.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was on hand in Mobile, Alabama, to christen a U.S. Navy ship. AL.com reports that the USNS Puerto Rico was christened Saturday at the Austal USA shipyard, where it was built.

Alabama’s growing population means state driver licenses will get an additional digit. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says it is adding an eighth digit to all new driver licenses issued by the state beginning Dec. 1.

The businessman trying to buy a mothballed nuclear power plant from Tennessee Valley Authority has been given an extension to complete the $111 million purchase. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports Franklin Haney signed an agreement on Nov. 14, 2016, that gave the former real estate developer two years to complete the purchase of the […]

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There will not be an oyster season on the Alabama coast in the coming year, an unusual move caused by what officials say is a lack of oysters in state waters. AL.com reported Thursday that an official with the state conservation agency announced the decision during a meeting with seafood harvesters and dealers in southern […]

Nearly two-thirds of Alabamians voted a straight-ticket — either all Republican or all Democratic— when they went to the polls on Tuesday, a record number that reflects political polarization and likely boosted Republicans in their easy sweep of state races. According to the Alabama Secretary of State’s office, about 1.1 million of the 1.7 million […]

Officials say a social media threat has prompted the closure of schools in an Alabama city and a neighboring district in Georgia. News outlets reported that Eufaula City Schools are closed Thursday because of the threat.

Authorities say a jogging off-duty Alabama state trooper has died after he was hit by a pickup truck. News outlets report that 34-year-old Jason William Hewett of Florence died when he was struck by a pickup truck while jogging on a county road near Florence on Tuesday morning.

Authorities say an Alabama man fell through the ceiling of a Waffle House restaurant during an apparent theft attempt while customers were inside. Local media outlets report he fell through the ceiling into the dining room Sunday. Cellphone videos captured the incident.

Forecasters say there’s another threat of severe weather including tornadoes across the southeastern United States. The Storm Prediction Center says a system moving out of eastern Arkansas late Monday will spread across the region during the overnight hours into Tuesday.

The 75th National Peanut Festival is under way in the southeast Alabama city of Dothan. The fair opened Friday night and is expected to draw as many as 200,000 people during a 10-day run that concludes Nov. 11.

School systems in south Alabama are seeing an influx of students from the Florida Panhandle weeks after Hurricane Michael. WTVY-TV reports that 63 new students have enrolled in Dothan city schools since the hurricane, and 17 more are now attending Houston County schools.