State News

By Rebecca Griesbach The Alabama Panhellenic Association elected Deborah Oberkor of Montgomery as its 2023-2024 president. She is the first Black woman to serve in the role in the more than 100 years since APA’s founding. […]

By Trisha Powell Crain Next year’s eighth graders will have a new academic requirement to complete in order to eventually earn their Alabama high school diploma. The Alabama Board of Education voted 5-to-2 to add a […]

SOURCE: Business Insider, Joshua Zitser and Sam Tabahriti After self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk closed the $44 billion deal on Twitter, anonymous accounts set about testing the limits of the social media platform’s moderation […]

By Mary Colurso Music lovers in Birmingham could have a brand-new concert venue right in their backyard, if plans continue to move forward for a $50 million amphitheater on the city’s Northside. The 9,000-seat amphitheater isn’t […]

By Kyra Miles | WBHM A handful of small airplanes line the runway on windy day at Bessemer Airport and if you look through the windows you’ll see high schoolers in the cockpit. For students like Finn Payne, […]

By Dennis Pillion A large-scale water sampling program has confirmed the presence of PFAS, or so-called “forever chemicals,” in dozens of rivers across the United States, including eight in Alabama. The sampling, conducted by the environmental […]

By Trisha Powell Crain Alabama students led the nation in maintaining math and reading learning during the pandemic, according to a new national analysis. The state is among the top 10 of states that either improved […]

By Trisha Powell Crain Montgomery’s Principal Bryan Cutter is the newest Alabama educator to win the Milken Educator Award, called the “Oscar of teaching.” At a schoolwide assembly Wednesday morning that Cutter helped organize, officials surprised […]

By Trisha Powell Crain Amid teacher shortages, Alabama school officials are increasingly relying on alternative pathways to get teachers into classrooms, including certifying those with college degrees who want to teach but don’t have formal training […]