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Auburn University's Harbert College of Business launched a new graduate certificate in cybersecurity management designed to provide business...

Jefferson County's proposed 2020 budget is under intense scrutiny amidst allegations of "pork" funds and "an unconscionable lack of fiscal discipline."

Sears closing in Alabama's largest mall

Sears is closing its last full-size store in Alabama. The company announced Tuesday it will shut down 26 full-size Sears stores and Kmart locations nationwide in late October. That includes the Sears at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, which is Alabama’s largest shopping mall.

The Tennessee Valley Authority says it’s completed a $475 million upgrade at its oldest nuclear power plant in a move that helped boost the amount of electricity it produces without carbon emissions. The Times Free Press reports modifications to reactors at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama added power and expanded service to almost 300,000 […]

Alabama once again has the highest approval and net approval of President Donald Trump's job performance in the nation...

Astronaut Jan Davis received her bachelor’s degree from Auburn University, and earned a master’s and Ph.D from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Now, a copy of a voter's valid photo identification must be submitted along with every absentee ballot application in Alabama.

MOULTON — On Tuesday, Lawrence County Republicans got their first glimpse at State Rep. Arnold Mooney (R-Indian Springs), who is seeking Alabama’s U.S. Senatorial GOP nomination in 2020. Despite engaging in a back-and-forth on social media with Republican rival former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville over comments Tuberville made days earlier up the road […]

The Huntsville-Madison County Airport Authority has joined in the effort to get answers from the Alabama Ethics Commission.

The sign outside New Era Baptist Church in Birmingham, led by Pastor Michael R. Jordan, on Tuesday read, "A black vote for Trump is mental illness."

Gov. Kay Ivey Tuesday sent a letter to the members of the Alabama Toll Road, Bridge and Tunnel Authority rescheduling their public meeting...

Shoppers looking to buy local and support state farmers will soon have a new way to identify Alabama-grown products with the 'Sweet Grown Alabama' logo.

Alabama's per-student state funding for higher education in the decade following the Great Recession "fell by more than 30 percent."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is using the weekend mass shootings in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH, to raise money for Sen. Doug Jones' reelection bid.

Greg Canfield, secretary of the Alabama Department of Commerce, announced that Brenda Tuck has been hired as the department’s first rural development...

In an interview with “Alabama’s Morning News” host JT Nysewander on Birmingham radio’s 105.5 WERC on Tuesday, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin spoke about the outbreak of gun violence around the country that not only included recent incidents in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio but in America’s inner-cities as well. Woodfin fielded questions from callers […]

Two of America's largest newspaper conglomerates, each with a presence in Alabama, on Monday announced that they will merge to form a single company.

Congressman Bradley Byrne is praising President Trump after the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday officially declared China a currency manipulator.

Tommy Tuberville has responded to State Rep. Arnold Mooney's social media criticism of his weekend comments regarding veterans' healthcare and President...

AT&T Alabama on Friday launched the "Believe Birmingham" initiative, reaffirming the company's long-standing commitment to the Magic City.

For the eighth straight year, NumbersUSA has graded Rep. Mo Brooks’ (R-Hunstville) border security record at #1 in all of the U. S. Congress. NumbersUSA, which is America’s largest grassroots border security organization with over nine million members, gave Brooks a perfect 100% A+ record on its congressional scorecard. Only one other member of the […]

More than 150 previously unlicensed daycares in Alabama have gotten licensed by the state in order to continue receiving childcare subsidies. A 2018 state law required centers to get licensed by Aug. 1 to continue receiving the payments that help low and moderate-income families pay for childcare.

Tobacco shops in Alabama are no longer being able to advertise vaping as a healthy alternative to smoking. A wide-ranging law regulating vaping that passed the legislature earlier this year went into effect Thursday.

Properly educating students who are learning English as a second language is proving to be a significant challenge for Montgomery County schools.