Following the May passage of a bill rolling back parts of the Obama-era Dodd-Frank banking regulations, Congress has a chance to install more bipartisan financial reforms, and Alabama will have a say. The Republican-sponsored Consumer Financial Choice and Capital Markets Protection Act of 2017 currently awaits consideration by the Senate Banking Committee, on which both […]

One prominent Republican lawmaker is predicting that the state legislature will consider a bill during the 2019 legislative session calling for one such referendum on sports betting, though he predicts passage is a long shot according to WTVY in Dothan.

An Alabama private school that employed two teachers who pleaded guilty to sexual relationships with students is being sued by one of the ex-students. The Tuscaloosa News reports a lawsuit filed Friday against Pickens Academy says the school was aware of the relationship between the then-teenage plaintiff and teacher Charli Parker, and did nothing to […]

AT&T announced that it has invested over $1.2 billion in its wireless and wired networks to improve reliability, coverage, speed, and overall performance.

Alabama is accepting comments on its proposal to put a work requirement on 74,000 Medicaid recipients. The Alabama Medicaid Agency opened a new public comment period on the proposal.

Authorities say two men were killed after a small plane crashed shortly after takeoff near the Alabama coast. WALA-TV reports the plane’s pilot and lone passenger died Saturday when the aircraft crashed in a field and caught fire near Foley, roughly 30 miles (48 kilometers)southeast of Mobile.

The Alabama Department of Public Health has identified an outbreak of whooping cough in Shelby and Jefferson counties. Health officials said Friday that nine children testified positive for pertussis, also known as whooping cough. Another 22 people have developed symptoms.

More than 3,500 jobs have been recruited to Jefferson County in the past 12 months and officials expect that number to increase by year’s end. “I expect another 200-job announcement soon and we’re a finalist in another more-than-a-1,000-job project that could be announced later this year,” said Jefferson County Commissioner David Carrington, chair of the […]

Denorrise “Deno” Posey may be one of the few comedians in Birmingham whose day job pays as much as, if not more than, his side hustle of making people laugh. Posey is a Regions Bank executive by day and comedian by night. And he’s good at both. “It’s fun, because during the day I get […]

Randall Woodfin attended Netroots Nation this weekend. The gathering of progressives, sponsored by Planned Parenthood, MoveOn, NARAL Pro-Choice America, has been held annually for over a decade.

As Tyler Findlater sat in the Shelby Center for Engineering Technology at Auburn University, he felt the classroom enclose him before blacking out. When he came to his senses moments later, something felt off – the left side of his body wasn’t working. Findlater didn’t know then, but doctors told the 19-year-old hours later he […]

Birmingham’s Annie Avery, 80 years old, was crowned Ms. Alabama Nursing Home 2018 in the 35th annual pageant held July 30 at the Hyatt Regency Birmingham-The Wynfrey Hotel. “It is a wonderful feeling,” Avery said after being crowned by Miss Alabama 2018, Callie Walker. “I’ve been in things (events) before, but to be a part […]

Honda Manufacturing of Alabama today marked the official opening of its new logistics buildings, an $85 million project that further deepens the automaker’s roots in Talladega County, as well as its significant imprint on the state’s economy. The new facilities add nearly 400,000 square feet to Honda’s existing 4.2 million-square-foot factory in Lincoln, where more than […]

Rarely can Alabama be considered a swing-state. But in this battle to confirm President Trump's nominee, the Yellowhammer State is taking center stage.

It's been called the toughest decision of Nick Saban's career. But Jalen Hurts might've just lost the battle to be Alabama's starting quarterback.

From July 8-10, Bonnie George saw the Caribbean country of Haiti transform into a cauldron of trouble, as citizens erupted in protest over skyrocketing gasoline prices. As prices jumped overnight to $5 a liter, some people reacted in frustration. The average Haitian family makes $2 a day. George witnessed the firestorm during a mission trip […]

Authorities in Alabama say a wandering toddler led police to two dead bodies. Birmingham police Sgt. Johnny Williams tells AL.com that police responding to a report of a child alone on the street found a toddler wearing bloodstained clothes Thursday.

It's finally here, sports fans: the last weekend without either college football or NFL games until February. Keep reading for a list of upcoming games...

Friday in an interview that aired on FM Talk 106.5’s “Midday Mobile,” Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) explained the process as to how he will go about determining whether he will vote to confirm Supreme Court associate justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Jones denounced the advertising campaign underway meant to influence his decision and explained he […]

Birmingham has had a summer packed full of music festivals and events, and that wave of music is not over. The Eighth Annual Secret Stages  is coming to Birmingham’s Avondale community Aug. 3-4. The festival has always been billed as a “discovery festival” where artists from the city and region perform for audiences of music […]

Piggybacking on a federal investigation into possible collusion, a Mobile law firm has filed a class-acton lawsuit accusing the nation’s biggest television station owners of fixing advertising rates. Clay, Massey & Associates filed the lawsuit this week in U.S. District Court in Chicago against Gray Television Inc., Nextstar Media Group, Tegna Inc., Tribune Media Co. […]

Will Mississippi's newly legalized sports betting hurt Alabama athletics? One state legislator has a dire warning for college football fans.

Senator Richard Shelby today continued to tout Alabama’s role in American spaceflight. Shelby took to Twitter to highlight the fact that United Launch Alliance (ULA) rockets made in Decatur, Alabama were going to help power American astronauts back into space. Exciting day for American spaceflight! @NASA announced 9 brave astronauts selected to fly @BoeingSpace/@SpaceX commercial […]

A provision in the popular Republican tax bill has non-profits, particularly churches, concerned that they might have to begin filing income tax returns for the first time. The provision imposes an unrelated business tax when an organization pays for the use of qualified transportation fringe benefits, parking facilities used in connection with qualified parking, and […]