State News

By Heather Gann This fall, the Lede is reaching out to your elected representatives and asking what they’re anticipating for the 2024 session and what they’re doing to stay in touch with constituents. District 51 Rep. […]

By Dennis Pillion Alabama Power’s plan to leave 21 million tons of coal ash waste in an unlined impoundment on the Mobile River took another hit last week, as a federal judge recommended that a lawsuit […]

By STEVEN SHEPARD Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is poised to be the most formidable independent presidential candidate in more than two decades. And already, operatives in both parties are moving to head off the impact. A […]

By Mike Cason Three months have passed since the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission was first scheduled to issue licenses to businesses to begin the work of getting products to patients. Missteps and lawsuits have stalled the […]

By Howard Koplowitz The Alabama Democratic Party’s Black caucus said it will propose a redistricting map next week that includes a new Second Congressional District with more Black voters than any of the three plans drawn […]

By William Thornton The police chief of a north Alabama town, calling it the “toughest moment” in his career, today announced his resignation, along with three officers and a town council member in an apparent dispute […]

By Cody D. Short Tuskegee University has partnered with the National Football League to design an innovative fictional football stadium. This is the first partnership of its kind between the NFL and construction science students. The […]

By Rebecca Griesbach  Federal investigators are looking into a conservative activist’s claim that several scholarship programs at The University of Alabama at Huntsville discriminate against men. Justin Gaffney Samuels, a New York-based blogger and filmmaker who […]

By Leada Gore There’s already a Carlee Russell movie, y’all. It only took a couple of months to turn around “The Nurse That Saw the Baby on the Highway,” now streaming on Prime Video. You can rent the […]

By Trisha Powell Crain An Alabama Education Lab analysis of chronic absenteeism rates – the percentage of students who missed 18 or more days of school in a given school year – showed a wide range […]