Candidates for city office stood far apart — physically and sometimes ideologically — in a socially distanced forum in Anniston Thursday evening.
Photos of an Anniston Candidate Forum at Anniston High School auditorium.
When Heflin voters go to polls Aug. 25 there will be three municipal races up for grabs to shape the future of City Hall.
Politics in Anniston can be raw and loud at times, but the five men running for mayor of the Model City agree on quite a few things.
Candidates for Anniston’s ward-based city council and school board seats will speak at a forum sponsored by the Anniston Star on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at Anniston High School’s auditorium.
Photos of COVID-19 testing at Thankful Baptist Church.
The Jacksonville City Council is bound to have one new member after municipal elections on Aug. 25.
This year’s Jacksonville Board of Education election is similar to the previous one in 2016, according to candidates.
The Anniston City Council voted Thursday 4-0 to add the city senior center on Littlebrandt Drive at McClellan as a polling place for Aug. 25 city elections.
On Aug. 25, Ranburne residents will choose from Samantha Smith, a current councilwoman, and ex-city councilman Rodney Brown, for the mayor’s seat.
UPDATED 5:36 p.m. — Anniston’s City Council announced shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday that the council will hold a special called meeting Thursday at 2 p.m. to consider a possible additional polling location for Ward 1.
This story has been updated to reflect a new starting time for the candidate forums.
Jacksonville City Council members met Monday afternoon to prepare for municipal elections later this month.
Sixteen candidates have sought Anniston’s highest elected position in the last eight years. No other city in Calhoun County can touch that level of aspiring participation.
Jacksonville City Council President Sandra Sudduth has decided to not run for re-election, a move which will end her 30 years in office in the seat once held by her father.
Photos of COVID-19 testing at Harvest Church of God in Golden Springs.
Rhonda Heard was the only qualifier for District 2 and because current councilwoman, Rhonda Lines, is not seeking re-election, Heard will run unopposed in the upcoming municipal election on Aug. 25.
Cities across Alabama are in for a busy few weeks of campaigning, after municipal election qualifying closed Tuesday with dozens of candidates in the running.
Photos of the Calhoun County EMA COVID-19 news conference at RMC in Anniston.
Alabama officials are looking at last week's primary runoff for insights on how to safely run polling sites amid predicted larger voter turnout in what is likely to still be a health emergency.
Police charged an Ashland man Tuesday after he allegedly threatened to start shooting in an Oxford polling place during that day’s state primary runoff election.
Political newcomer Roger Hill, 67, won the Cleburne County Commission District 4 Republican runoff election Tuesday, beating Rex Nolen by 71 votes.
Former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville defeated veteran Alabama politician Jeff Sessions in a runoff Tuesday for the Republican nomination for Sessions' former seat in the U.S. Senate, according to projections by The Associated Press and other news organizations.
Voters across Alabama will head to the polls Tuesday to decide who will represent Republicans in the race for U.S. Senate, but many would-be voters have already made their choice.
Turnout in next week’s primary runoff election is expected to be lower than the March 3 primary, but more Alabamians have already submitted absentee ballots for the Tuesday contests than did in March.
