State News

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 […]

By Leada Gore In the U.S., breast cancer is the most common form of the more than 200 types of the disease. But it’s not the most common form in Alabama, according to a recent analysis […]

By Hannah Denham A home health provider is completely pulling its services out of Alabama at the end of September and plans to lay off nearly 800 employees soon after, blaming the state’s inaction to expand […]