President Donald Trump’s approval rating slipped nominally in Alabama last month, but the Yellowhammer State remains one of his strongest, according to a Morning Consult poll released Tuesday. The 61 percent approval rating was down 2 percentage points from January, within the margin of error. Wyoming passed Alabama as Trump’s strongest state. Trump has […]

  A federal judge in Montgomery on Friday ruled in favor of Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker in a case that could grant significantly greater freedom to all state court judges to comment on legal matters that are not before them. Chief U.S. District Judge Keith Watkins issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the state’s […]

Dr. Nancy Dunlap may not be a household name, but her impact in the field of medicine has extended far beyond Alabama’s borders. Dunlap, an emeritus professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is among the women to be honored this month at the Yellowhammer Women of Impact […]

    Editor’s note: This is a round-up of the day’s major events in Montgomery. The Alabama Legislature wrapped up work for the week on Thursday with discussion of a much-debated proposal to overhaul the state’s ethics law, a new gun-restriction proposal and postponement of a prison health contract. Here is a look at the […]

    U.S. News & World Report crunched the numbers — more than 75 different data sets — and ranked Alabama as one of the worst places to live in America. Technically, it is the 46th best place to live on the magazine’s 2018 “Best States” rankings. Alabama beat out West Virginia, New Mexico, Mississippi […]

  When newly minted doctors graduate from medical schools throughout the country each year, most head for lucrative jobs in specialties and large metropolitan regions. Few want to practice family medicine for relatively low pay in America’s backwaters. The doctor shortage is a problem across the country, but it’s worse in Alabama than most states. […]

  (Opinion) The world’s most deliberative body, as the U.S. Senate likes to call itself, held a weeklong debate on the contentious issue of immigration — and the public is no better informed for it. That’s because pro-amnesty senators routinely did the same thing that other supporters of mass immigration do — spout empty platitudes […]

  Editor’s note: This is a round-up of the day’s major events in Montgomery. Guns dominated Montgomery’s politics on Thursday, both because of circumstances — Wednesday’s mass school shooting in Florida — and coincidence — a previously scheduled vote in the Legislature. Here is a look at what lawmakers in the state capital did as […]

Editor’s note: This is a round-up of the day’s major events in Montgomery. The education budget sailed through the state House of Representatives on Tuesday without a dissenting vote, while a bill to promote expansion of ride-sharing programs is a governor’s signature away from becoming law. Teachers and 4-year-olds are the big winners of the […]

    President Donald Trump’s highest approval rating is in Alabama, a poll released Tuesday suggests. The survey by Morning Consult, is based on interviews with 802,543 registered voters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The company has updated its survey results each month since Trump took office. The most recent Alabama […]

State Sen. Slade Blackwell (R-Mountain Brook) added drama Friday to the final day to qualify for the 2018 election, switching from a re-election bid to the governor’s race. Blackwell, who upset an incumbent Republican in the 2010 primary to win his seat, had been on track to run for re-election in District 15 but without […]

  The share of union workers in Alabama fell last year, but the state remains the most unionized in the South, according to government data released last month. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Alabama had 138,000 union members in 2017, 7.4 percent of all wage earners. That share was down 8.6 percent from […]

  Editor’s note: This is a round-up of the day’s major events in Montgomery. The Legislature on Thursday moved closer to passing a law subjecting unlicensed day care centers to more regulation, adding to the list of circumstances that can elevate murder to a capital offense and encourage the development of high-speed internet. A powerful […]

  Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is among the most popular governors in the country, according to a Thursday poll that surveyed voters in all 50 states. The poll by Morning Consult, which included 253,393 registered voters nationwide from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, shows 64 percent of Alabama voters approve of the job Ivey is […]

  Editor’s note: This is a round-up of the day’s major events in Montgomery. It’s an election year, and Alabama House Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) said before the start of this year’s legislative session that he did not anticipate any tax hikes. But that hasn’t stopped one of the Legislature’s most powerful Republicans from proposing […]

Tony Pace and Mary J. Cox fell in love in rural Clarke County, but since they were an interracial couple and it was 19th century Alabama, marriage was not an option. So, in the parlance of modern slang, they “shacked up.” That got them indicted in November 1881 on charges of living together in a […]

  The Alabama Legislature on Thursday moved closer to cutting taxes, saving money for Medicaid and approving rules for ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft. Here are the major developments in Montgomery. The big story: The Alabama Senate approved a modest tax break, one of the centerpieces of the Republican agenda for the 2018 session. […]

  Editor’s note: This is a round-up of the day’s major events in Montgomery. Day five of the 2018 Alabama legislative session brought a push to restrict when law enforcement authorities can seize private property, renewed action by a public corruption grand jury and a move to end special elections when U.S. senators leave office […]

  Alabama tops the country in public corruption, according to a new study examining perceptions of wrongdoing across the country. The report by Illinois State University’s Institute for Corruption Studies ranks Alabama as the most corrupt state in the union for 2017 when it comes to what researchers call “legal corruption” — conduct by public […]

  Democrat Doug Jones scored an upset victory in last month’s special election in no small part by convincing voters that he would pursue a moderate course and seek bipartisan consensus. On one of his first opportunities to demonstrate it, he bucked his party Friday night over the government shutdown fight. Jones joined most Republicans […]

  Editor’s note: This is a round-up of the day’s major events in Montgomery. Sometimes, what does not happen in the Legislature is more important than what does. Such was the case Thursday when lawmakers reconvened in Montgomery after a snow day. An Alabama Senate committee considered a bill to change the way the state […]

  On a day when lawmakers kept weary watch over deteriorating weather conditions in much of Alabama, the Legislature passed its first bills of the session Tuesday and began work on the state’s General Fund budget. The Legislature will shut down Wednesday because of weather and plans to return to work on Thursday. Here is […]

  Dog owners would face stiffer penalties for attacks by their pets under legislation supported by a top Alabama House Republican. Majority Leader Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainesville) announced Monday he would introduce a bill to crack down on irresponsible dog owners. “Ultimately, dog owners are responsible for any damage, injuries, or even deaths that their animals […]

  The #MeToo movement threatens to turn women into “snowflakes,” former Secretary of State and Alabama native Condoleezza Rice told CNN in an interview that airs tonight. Speaking to former Barack Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod for an episode of “The Ax Files,” Rice said the movement that sprung up in the wake of a […]