The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Alabama Political Action Committee has endorsed Gov. Kay Ivey in the November 6 gubernatorial election.

As the gubernatorial election for the state of Alabama draws near, Alabama House Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) weighed in on Republican Gov. Kay Ivey’s decision to not debate her Democratic challenger Walt Maddox, despite the Tuscaloosa mayor’s pleas. McCutcheon said Ivey, who chose to not debate any of her three Republican challengers before the primary, […]

In the story of "Noah’s Ark except it’s a school bus," The Washington Post detailed how a truck driver saved more than 60 animals from Hurricane Florence and drove them to Alabama.

Akil Michael Figures, son of Alabama state Senator Vivian Davis Figures (D-Mobile), has been arrested on a domestic violence charge, per Fox 10.

On Monday, Dr. Mary Jane Caylor's campaign for Huntsville City Council released a creative new social media ad that invoked her opponent's ties to Socialist Democrat Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Gubernatorial challenger Walt Maddox kicked off a statewide bus tour Monday, taking his message on the road as he seeks to gain ground against incumbent Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. The Democratic nominee began the tour in Tuscaloosa where he is mayor.

Federal government lawyers say a 14-year-old leak is releasing much more oil each day into the Gulf of Mexico than officials previously claimed, and it may be getting worse. A Friday court filing in a case involving Taylor Energy Co. says 10,000 to 30,000 gallons (37,000 to 113,000 liters) daily is leaking from multiple wells […]

After Secretary of State John Merrill published an op-ed last week strongly criticizing the Alabama Ethics Commission, the commission's director, Tom Albritton, appeared on Capitol Journal to push back and give their side of the story, saying "We did our job."

After an United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket, which was built at the company’s Decatur facility, powered NASA's launching of the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California on Saturday, Alabama lawmakers celebrated, with Senator Richard Shelby saying, "Congratulations to ULA on their 130th consecutive successful launch!"

Dr. Sarah Parcak, an archaeology professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), recently led an expedition that discovered over 800 Egyptian tombs, according to a press release by the university. The expedition, which was a joint venture between UAB and the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, revealed one of the largest sites of Middle Kingdom tombs in […]

Democratic nominee for governor and Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox, in an interview on the Matt & Aunie show Monday, said that he will vote against the pro-life "Amendment Two" on the November 6 General Election ballot.

Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL) announced on Monday his bill to provide school officials with better information regarding students concerning school safety. The Make Schools Safer Act ensures that the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences includes studies and resources surrounding school safety and mental health in the What Works Clearinghouse, which educators, counselors and […]

In an appearance Monday on Birmingham’s Talk 99.5 “Matt & Aunie Show,” Democratic gubernatorial nominee Walt Maddox fielded questions from co-host Matt Murphy about the merits of expanding Medicaid in Alabama, a favorite policy position of many of the state’s Democratic elected officials. “I think Medicaid is working in Alabama,” he said. “It serves mostly […]

Alabama’s Supreme Court on Friday voted 5-4 to overturn the death sentence of a Birmingham man convicted in a 2009 robbery and shooting, instead directing a Jefferson County judge to sentence Anthony Lane to life without possibility of parole. The ruling came after the U.S. Supreme Court had ordered Alabama’s courts to reconsider the death […]

University of South Alabama trustees have voted to move forward with construction of a $72 million on-campus football stadium for the 2020 season. President Tony Waldrop authorized the bidding process to start the second phase work on the stadium, AL.com reported.

Per the Associated Press, a federal judge last week extended the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau's deadline to respond to Alabama's lawsuit challenging their practice of counting illegal immigrants until November 13.

The Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (EDPA) last week announced that six early-stage companies have advanced to the Alabama Launchpad Startup Competition Finale, which will take place in Huntsville on September 27.

The four girls killed when a bomb placed by Ku Klux Klan members ripped through a Birmingham church in 1963 were remembered in a Saturday memorial service on the 55th anniversary of the deadly attack. Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson were killed in the Sept. 15, 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s […]

All of Cullman County's schools will display "In God We Trust," the national motto, after a unanimous voted by the local school board on Thursday.

After a shooting in a posh part of Tuscaloosa injured one University of Alabama student and shook residents around town on Sunday, police investigators discovered that the shooter is "developmentally challenged" and that his caretaker bears a large portion of the blame.

Per a report by NBC13, students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) helped take down a notorious Russian cyber criminal, Peter Levashov, recently.

Starting this coming fiscal year, paid congressional internships will be widely available for the first time in decades due to a funding package passed last week under the leadership of Senate Committee on Appropriations Chairman Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL).

Senator Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) on Sunday afternoon called for Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to be postponed, calling for a "pause button" to be pushed once again, after the Washington Post published an allegation of sexual assault by then-high school student Kavanaugh.

Fresh off of the historic launch of an Alabama-built rocket in August, NASA once again counted on Alabama craftsmanship to send its latest earth-studying satellite into space. NASA successfully launched its Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California on Saturday morning. The satellite will have the capability of measuring […]