The group Concerned Women for America gave Alabama’s election system the highest integrity rating in the country in a report published Wednesday. Concerned Women for America (CWA) is a conservative group that “protects and promotes Biblical values and Constitutional principles through prayer, education, and advocacy,” according to its website. CWA looked at four areas of […]

MONTGOMERY — The Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a number of bills relating to law enforcement, including allowing state law enforcement to use wiretaps in drug trafficking cases. Legislators also approved a measure that would require cities and counties to pay for PTSD treatments for their full-time police officers and firefighters, and passed […]

The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) voted to give Montgomery civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson the Margaret Chase Smith American Democracy Award during the group’s annual winter conference last week. Stevenson, head of the nationally renowned Equal Justice Initiative, was nominated by Alabama Secretary of State John Merill for the honor. “We are […]

State Representative Kirk Hatcher (D-Montgomery) has introduced a bill that would allow college athletes to be paid for the use of their image, likeness and name while enrolled at any university in Alabama. This paves the way for student-athletes to receive compensation for endorsing products on social media, making public appearances, having their likeness used […]

Alabama’s coronavirus vaccination process is set to enter a complicated new phase in the coming days as hundreds of thousands of people who received their first dose return to get their second, and an additional 750,000 citizens become eligible to get their first. On Monday, February 8, the state’s expansion of eligibility to all citizens […]

The Alabama Workforce Council released its annual report on Friday. The document showed that the coronavirus pandemic threw a wrench into the state’s workforce development machinery, but progress is still being made. Hanging over all of Alabama’s workforce development efforts is Governor Kay Ivey’s stated goal of adding 500,000 credentialed workers to the state’s pool […]

Alabama’s number of new coronavirus cases and patients requiring hospitalization continued to drop sharply in the last week. Alabama’s seven-day average of new cases dropped to a rate not experienced since the Thanksgiving holiday, an event believed by experts to have kicked off the massive winter spike in numbers. Over the past week, an average […]

Attorney General Steve Marshall announced Thursday that Alabama will be receiving $9,229,421 from being part of a 47-state coalition that went after the McKinsey & Company consulting firm for its role in the opioid crisis. In total, the settlement paid by McKinsey was $573 million. Marshall’s office says it is the first multistate opioid settlement […]

MONTGOMERY — The Alabama House of Representatives on Thursday passed two bills that are top priorities for state leaders. The House passed one bill that exempts from state taxes the $1,200 and $600 coronavirus relief payments most Alabamians received from the federal government in the last year. The chamber also passed a bill extending two […]

A detailed breakdown of Governor Kay Ivey’s proposed budgets was provided by Alabama Department of Finance Director Kelly Butler on Wednesday, including the costs of Ivey’s proposed teacher and state worker pay raises. In large part thanks to responsible budgeting by the legislature over the last decade and increased revenues from the online sales tax, […]

The Jacksonville State University Athletics Department has announced that JSU teams will be switching to the ASUN Conference for athletic competitions beginning in the fall of 2021. For the last 18 years, the Gamecocks have been members of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC). The university cited bringing its conference affiliation closer to home as a […]

Alabama Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth announced two new ventures on Wednesday designed to better connect Alabama’s students and small business owners with the state’s rapidly expanding aerospace industry. One of the initiatives is a two-week summer internship for students touching on various aspects of the aerospace field. The second is a program to provide business […]

A high school student from Hoover and two of his friends have teamed up in the last year to offer an online summer camp in computer programming to Alabama students ages 8-14. Shaams Nur, 15, founded last year what is now known as HooverCamp with fellow high schoolers Leo Song and Victor Song. Nur is […]

MONTGOMERY — The Alabama House of Representatives held its first meeting of the 2021 legislative session on Tuesday, kicking off what is expected to be a frenzied two weeks in the Capitol. House Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) welcomed the members and thanked them, many of whom are older, for taking the health risk of continuing […]

The charitable campaign No Kid Hungry announced on Monday that 12 school districts in Alabama will be receiving financial support to aid their school meal programs. No Kid Hungry, a project of the charity Share Our Strength, is dedicated to ending child hunger in America. The organization shared that one in four American children may […]

The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) announced on Monday a website that citizens of the state can use to check if they are eligible for the coronavirus vaccines, and if so, schedule an appointment to receive one. The site, similar to the preexisting vaccine scheduling hotline, only enables members of the public to schedule […]

In a highly anticipated move, Governor Kay Ivey signed on Monday two 30-year lease agreements that will see to the construction of two new large men’s prisons in Alabama, an enormous financial outlay, and the latest step in dealing with a longstanding issue for the state. Ivey has faced criticism from members of both political […]

Former President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that David Schoen, whose practice is based in Montgomery, will be one of two attorneys leading the defense during Trump’s second impeachment trial. A graduate of Boston College Law School, Schoen moved to Montgomery in the mid-1980s to pursue an interest in civil rights litigation, according to […]

The Gulf State Park Pier, one of Alabama’s most loved landmarks, is set to reopen early Saturday morning after taking significant damage from Hurricane Sally in September. The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) announced the reopening in a release on Friday. The agency says 725 feet of the pier have been repaired, […]

MONTGOMERY — State officials announced an expansion of who in Alabama is eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine on Friday. Beginning February 8, all citizens over 65, along with several categories of front line workers, will be allowed to get vaccinated. State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris made the announcement at the Alabama Department of […]

The number of patients in Alabama hospitals with a case of COVID-19 continued to decrease sharply in the last week, while new cases of the virus stayed fairly steady. As of Thursday afternoon, there were 2,052 individuals in Alabama hospitals with a case of the coronavirus, down from 2,370 one week ago and down nearly […]

Alabama State Parks saw a marked increase in visitors last year, as their welcoming outdoor environments provided citizens with a safe way to leave the house amid the coronavirus pandemic. A release from the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) on Thursday relayed that 6.27 million individuals visited Alabama’s parks during the fiscal […]

The Alabama Department of Public Health confirmed on Wednesday that three cases of the B.1.1.7 strain of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Alabama. B.1.1.7, commonly called the “U.K. variant,” was first discovered in the United Kingdom last year and is more contagious than the standard version of COVID-19. Two of the cases in Alabama are […]

The Birmingham Board of Education rejected on Tuesday night the application from the proposed Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School. Officials from the nascent institution say they will appeal the decision. AAAHS founder Ruben Morris said in a release he and his team plan to take their application to the Alabama Public Charter School Commission […]