State Board of Education member Cynthia McCarty will not seek reelection, she announced Wednesday. McCarty, R-Anniston, has represented District 6 since 2015.
The state this week launched Drive Electric Alabama, an electric vehicle education and marketing program.
Alabama could get more than $6.8 billion in road and transportation funding in the recently approved $1.2 trillion Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act.
Sens. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, and Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, said recently they’ll try again in the upcoming session to give one-time bonuses to retired state workers and teachers.
The Talladega National Forest fires, which scorched more than 1,000 acres over the past week, are gradually coming under control.
Two Jacksonville residents were arrested Monday and charged with arson in the first degree after a fire Nov. 7 at Pheasant Run Apartments, police Chief Marcus Wood said.
Alabama’s salaries and benefits for K-12 teachers are on par with what surrounding states offer and better in some instances, including out-of-pocket health care expenses, according to a recent report.
The proposed congressional map introduced in the Alabama Legislature on Thursday splits Lauderdale County in northwest Alabama among two districts, drawing concerns from local lawmakers.
Six bills pushing back on federal vaccine mandates were introduced in the Alabama Senate on Thursday, but their futures in the special session seem shaky.
Alabama’s Medicaid enrollment has continued record growth because of the COVID-19 pandemic and an ongoing federal requirement that people can’t be removed from the rolls.
The number of Alabamians hospitalized with COVID-19 dropped below 500 this week for the first time since mid-July.
Mayors from Alabama’s largest cities gathered in the state capital Monday where they expressed concern over any new laws that would put Alabama businesses in conflict with federal COVID-19 vaccine rules.
The state authority charged with distributing up to $263 million in federal funding for emergency rental assistance told a panel of lawmakers on Wednesday it has pledged for distribution most of the money, eliminating the risk of a federal take back.
The Alabama House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a prison constriction package, including a bill to borrow up to $785 million to build two mega-jails.
For most of Heather Dempsey’s life, she has spent her days at Pleasant Valley schools.
The bill limits the amount of beer that could be delivered per customer per day to the equivalent of 120 12-ounce beers, 12 standard bottles of wine or 12 standard bottles of liquor.
Lawmakers next week will focus on prison construction and funding legislation and two criminal justice reform bills, according to the special session proclamation released by Gov. Kay Ivey.
Last Saturday, 35 people from three different troops gathered for a state park event. During their park visit, the girls learned how to look just a little bit closer at plants, animals and nature in general.
The number of COVID patients in Anniston continues to rise, resulting in long waits and prioritized care at local emergency rooms.
Students in the Calhoun County School system will continue remote learning until Sept. 17.
About $15.5 million in pandemic Emergency Rental Assistance had gotten to 2,308 Alabamians as of last week, according to the Alabama Housing Finance Authority, the entity charged with distributing the federal funds.
On Monday, kin and friends, bonded by the love of Sacred Harp singing, celebrated Labor Day for the 101st time at Shoal Creek Church.
The special ceremony is set to run from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday at the Stone Center theatre on Jacksonville State’s campus.
State lawmakers adopted new legislation to extend terms one additional year. Now, elections will take place in 2025 and will join the municipal contests occurring in Birmingham and Mobile.
Senior Trooper Gregory Corble said the incident happened at 1:20 a.m., five miles south of Glencoe on U.S. 431, approximately at the 246 mile marker.
