State News

By Mike Cason Starting January 1, full-time hourly workers in Alabama will pay no state income tax on overtime pay, defined as pay for work in excess of 40 hours in a week. State officials […]

By Mike Cason Imminent announcements have turned into false alarms on multiple occasions in recent months regarding a final-and-official decision on locating U.S. Space Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville. And still the limbo and […]

By Amy Yurkanin Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion Thursday in a case challenging the Alabama attorney general’s position that people can be prosecuted for assisting women who travel out of state […]

ByJohn Sharp Widening Interstate 65 from the Tennessee state line south to Mobile will be a long and expensive process that should not be the No. 1 transportation priority over other “immediate problems,” Alabama House […]

By Trisha Powell Crain Alabama’s high school students will learn a little bit more about personal finance after the state Board of Education approves changes to a required course. Alabama requires high school students to take […]

By Trisha Powell Crain Alabama’s high school students will learn a little bit more about personal finance after the state Board of Education approves changes to a required course. Alabama requires high school students to take […]

By John Sharp Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson’s office has forwarded a lease agreement to Amtrak that would allow the train service to build a stop in downtown Mobile to support a new passenger rail route, a […]