Alabama is receiving over $35 million in funds for conservation and improvement of its coastline, the Department of the Interior announced on Tuesday. The funds coming to Alabama are the result of the 2006 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA), a law that established a revenue sharing program where Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas […]

Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson is calling on federal authorities to lift their ban on cruise ship travel. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a No Sail Order for cruise ships on March 14, 2020. More than one year later, the ban effectively remains in place despite a technical change last fall. Cruises […]

Monday, three of Alabama’s top elected officials toured the damage caused by the tornadoes that ravaged Alabama on March 25. Governor Kay Ivey conducted a tour with three stops. She visited Calhoun, Hale and Shelby Counties, three of Alabama’s hardest-hit areas. U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and U.S. Representative Mike Rogers (R-Saks) jointly examined the […]

Governor Kay Ivey on Monday rejected President Joe Biden’s request to further extend the state’s mask mandate. Earlier in the day, Biden called on elected officials at all levels of government “to maintain and reinstate the mask mandate.” The governor’s press secretary, Gina Maiola, told reporters on Monday afternoon, “As Governor Ivey has previously stated, […]

The citizens of Alabama are assessing the damage and banding together to care for one another a day after deadly tornadoes battered the state. The death toll from the storms stands at five people, all of whom lived in the vicinity of Ohatchee, a small town in northwest Calhoun County. Damage assessments from the National […]

MONTGOMERY — If current trends hold, the one-millionth Alabamian to receive a COVID-19 vaccine dose will be reported by the Alabama Department of Public Health in the next two days, and all adults in the state will soon be eligible, according to the Yellowhammer State’s top doctor. Alabama State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris briefed […]

Alabama’s unemployment rate has now fallen for both of the first two months of 2021, with February’s rate decreasing to 4.0%. The Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) announced the news in a release on Friday morning. In January, Alabama’s unemployment rate was 4.3%. The 4% unemployment rate reported Friday is still above the 2.6% rate […]

Five people are confirmed dead in the Calhoun County town of Ohatchee as Alabama undergoes an enormous bout of severe weather, including tornadoes that have touched down in various locations from the Black Belt across the Birmingham area and into Northern Alabama. The Calhoun County Emergency Management Agency published a release at 4:26 p.m. confirming […]

Former Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Montgomery on October 7 to speak at Faulkner University’s annual benefit dinner. Mike Williams, president of Faulkner University, announced the news Pence was the 2021 speaker at a press conference on Thursday morning. “Mike Pence is a man of deep Christian faith,” said Williams at the unveiling. […]

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be the keynote speaker at Southern Preparatory Academy’s first-ever Board of Trustees Scholarship Banquet. Southern Prep was known for years as Lyman Ward Military Academy before rebranding in 2019. A boarding school, it bills itself as “Alabama’s premier military academy for boys” and takes young men in grades […]

Governor Kay Ivey has issued a state of emergency for 28 counties in Alabama ahead of severe weather anticipated for Thursday. The counties range from the Black Belt through the northeast corner of the state, including the highly populated Jefferson and Madison Counties. The National Weather Service (NWS) stations in Birmingham and Huntsville have issued […]

The final results of a high-profile study revealed on Wednesday that the U.S. portion of the Gulf of Mexico contains more than 110 million red snapper, roughly three times as many as previously estimated. Referred to as The Great Red Snapper Count, the years-long study was funded to the tune of $10 million by the […]

A bill expanding coronavirus vaccine access for military veterans and those who care for them, of which U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) was an original cosponsor, was signed into law on Wednesday. The bill makes expanded categories of individuals eligible to get COVID-19 vaccines at medical facilities operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined with his counterparts in 12 other states in filing a lawsuit asking a federal judge to end President Joe Biden’s ban on new federal oil and gas drilling. Biden on January 27 signed an executive order placing a halt on all new permits to drill for oil and […]

U.S. Representative Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) announced Wednesday that she will not seek Alabama’s open U.S. Senate seat in the 2022 midterm election. “After careful consideration and consultation with my family and closest advisors, I have decided that the unfinished business of my home district, Alabama’s 7th Congressional District, is far too important for me to […]

U.S. Representative Jerry Carl (R-Mobile) announced a piece of legislation on Tuesday that aims to make the federal government pay for state revenue lost due to actions taken by President Joe Biden. Seven days after being sworn in, Biden signed an executive order halting all new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and […]

Alabama men’s basketball star Herbert Jones is one of four finalists for the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year, the organization behind the award announced on Tuesday. Jones, 22, has led the Tide to its best basketball season in decades. He was named Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year by the […]

After steamrolling the Maryland Terrapins on Monday night, the Alabama Crimson Tide men’s basketball team is set to take on the UCLA Bruins on Sunday evening. Tip-off is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. CT. The game will air on TBS and stream via the NCAA March Madness Live app on applicable devices. As a precaution against […]

This fall, Alabama’s public schools will have 34 new classrooms funded by the state’s Pre-K through 3rd Grade Integrated Approach to Early Learning (P-3) program. The P-3 program is an effort by the state education entities to integrate the instructional practices of the state’s best-in-the-nation First Class Pre-K program into a student’s education through the […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Monday made a technical revision to Alabama’s Safer at Home order that decreased the distance students must distance from each other at Alabama’s public schools from six feet to three feet. The revision comes in the wake of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishing updated guidance on […]

First lady of the United States Dr. Jill Biden will visit the Birmingham area on Friday, March 26. She is set to hold an event promoting the projects and initiatives funded by the recent $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that passed Congress while being championed by her husband, President Joe Biden. The FLOTUS trip is part […]

As U.S. Rep. Mo. Brooks (R-Huntsville) appears set to announce a campaign for U.S. Senate, a dark money group from outside of Alabama is attacking him for his opposition to then-candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primary. A shadowy group called the American Exceptionalism Institute has hired trucks emblazoned with reminders of Brooks’ […]

MONTGOMERY — Dr. Scott Harris announced Friday at a press conference that Alabama’s vaccination efforts are proceeding smoothly, with 877,815  individuals having received at least one dose of a vaccine product, roughly 18% of the population. Harris, Alabama’s State Health Officer and the head of the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH), said up to […]

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) announced on Thursday that he is sponsoring legislation to increase the number of National Guard members eligible for the GI Bill. Members of the National Guard, per Moore’s office, are not made eligible for the GI Bill when they are given assignments like serving on America’s southern border or protecting […]