State News

By John Sharp The Alabama State Port Authority, once strongly opposed to bringing Amtrak service back to the Gulf Coast, is now willing to commit to $1 million over the next three years to support its […]

By Mike Cason The U.S. Department of Justice has weighed in on a federal lawsuit challenging a new Alabama law that criminalizes certain forms of assistance with absentee voting, actions that supporters of the law […]

By Leada Gore Scammers never run out of ideas aimed at separating you from your money. The latest is something called quishing. Quishing – much like similar sounding smishing and phishing – uses subterfuge to direct you to […]

By: Lauren Estes CULLMAN, Ala. – The grace period for Alabama’s hands-free driving law, which went into effect in June 2023, will end June 15, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. According to drivesafealabama.org: “As of June […]

By Cody D. Short Mark Brown will be Tuskegee University’s 10th president and chief executive officer. The selection is the first time in Tuskegee’s nearly 143-year history that an alum will lead the university. Charlotte P. […]

By Alabama Daily News Alabama’s sweeping expansion of school choice known as the CHOOSE Act is set to go into effect by the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year. For choice advocates, the law is […]

By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS Over the past five years, Alabama has focused on reshaping how it teaches reading to young students, with recent test results initially suggesting success. Social media and officials praised these results, […]

By Williesha Morris  Foreign service and intelligence community members and family members will get in-state tuition rates at University of Alabama System campuses starting July 1. The amendment was proposed by the financial committee at UA […]

By Dennis Pillion The town of Newbern doesn’t have a lot to it. There are a handful of churches, of course, some empty storefronts along Alabama Route 61 and about 133 people living in older houses […]

By Kayode Crown Mobile County has received the largest share of grant funding from the Rebuild Alabama Act, an initiative to spread around money collected from the state’s last gas tax increase five years ago. The […]