After Labor Day weekend got the ball rolling for Alabama's favorite college football teams, week two features an array of exciting matchups across the Yellowhammer State.

After the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) this week unveiled the August jobs report, Alabama leaders celebrated the "unprecedented," booming economy and gave credit to conservative, pro-jobs policies.

A new website entitled "Craig Ford Exposed" launched on Thursday, attempting to show that the so-called "independent" candidate for state Senate District 10 is really a liberal Democrat.

Alabama Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) on Thursday joined nineteen other Democratic Senators in threatening to hold up the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Democratic nominee for governor and Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox on Thursday proudly confirmed that he voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and implied that the Second Amendment is not important.

August fundraising reports were due by the end of the day on Wednesday for all candidates running in Alabama’s upcoming November 6 election, and the numbers showed some interesting dynamics in the most-watched state legislative races.

Thursday, the Politico Playbook reported that NBA and Auburn basketball legend Charles Barkley is headlining a fundraiser for Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) on September 25.

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) on Thursday reaffirmed his support for confirming Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court and called on other members of the Senate to "put aside unnecessary, partisan, political obstruction."

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced on Thursday that the Houston Economic Development Association (HEDA) has agreed to end its "illegal gambling operations" at Center Stage. The agreement stems from a lawsuit filed by Marshall against the casino and the Houston County Commission in October of 2017.

Members of the national Pro-life Court Coalition urged Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) to vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, at an event in Montgomery on Thursday.

It was announced last week that Alabama ranked atop “Global Trade” magazine’s 2018 list of the best states for manufacturing in the nation, and a big factor - that often goes unnoticed - towards this achievement is the important work done by the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (EDPA).

Republican Rep. Mo Brooks (AL-5) on Wednesday, supported by colleagues and backed by more than 50 sheriffs from across the nation, led a major news conference on the U.S. Capitol grounds urging Congress to pass stronger immigration and border security legislation.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will meet with state attorneys general later this month to discuss whether tech companies like Twitter and Facebook may be "intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas," the Justice Department said Wednesday in a statement.

Republican Rep. Bradley Byrne (AL-1) spoke Wednesday at a press conference alongside leadership from the United States House of Representatives regarding his recent “Better Off Now” Town Hall tour, praising conservative policies that have led to a booming economy in his district and across Alabama.

August fundraising reports were due by the end of the day on Wednesday for all candidates running in Alabama's upcoming November 6 election, and the numbers showed a huge advantage for Republicans running for statewide offices - except the race for Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court.

Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday praised Attorney General Jeff Sessions, seeming to break with President Donald Trump in the process.

As Alabama Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) faces surging pressure to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the Democratic Senator on Tuesday complained that the process is "not fair" and that the confirmation hearing should have been postponed indefinitely.

Alabama has a significant chance to make the history books if President Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, is confirmed, as expected, sometime in October.

The University of Alabama and Auburn University both released new commercials to coincide with their football seasons kicking off this past weekend.

The White House forcibly pushed back after it became known on Tuesday that author Bob Woodward, made famous by his Watergate reporting, claims in his upcoming book that President Donald Trump called Attorney General Jeff Sessions “a traitor,” “mentally retarded” and a “dumb Southerner” who could not “even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.”

Members of the national Pro-life Court Coalition will urge Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) to vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, at three Alabama events this week.

On Tuesday, the National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) organization tweeted out a video of Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill encouraging all of the state's eligible voters to register.

Author Bob Woodward, made famous by his Watergate reporting, claims in his upcoming book that President Donald Trump called Attorney General Jeff Sessions "a traitor," "mentally retarded" and a "dumb Southerner" who could not "even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama."

Manufacture Alabama (MA) announced on Tuesday that Jason B. Crager, Director of Lockheed Martin's Pike County Operations, has been selected to the MA Board of Directors effective immediately.