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Auburn city leaders are celebrating a $21 million investment by Korean automotive electronics system supplier DUCK IL USA.

The Alabama House of Representatives was especially testy on Wednesday morning as lawmakers voted to invoke cloture during deliberations on a bill that would allow the state to utilize district maps it is currently federally enjoined from using.

On Tuesday afternoon, former congressman and current GOP candidate for Alabama House District 20, Mo Brooks, again accused his primary opponent, State Rep. James Lomax (R-Huntsville), of being controlled by out-of-state special interest groups.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Tuesday filed an emergency motion with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama asking the federal court to lift injunctions blocking Alabama from using its own congressional district map, following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week that significantly changed the legal standards governing voting rights redistricting claims.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) popped up in Montgomery on Tuesday morning, alongside Democratic state lawmakers, to bemoan the legislature's current efforts to clear a path for using congressional maps in the 2026 election cycle that have thus far been blocked in federal court.

Drivers across Alabama are continuing to see price increases at the pump due to the conflict between the United States and Iran.

An investigation by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Vice and Narcotics Unit landed a drug trafficking suspect behind bars with an over $3 million bond.

Mobile City Councilman Cory Penn said he believes the U.S. Supreme Court decision on redistricting based on race and Alabama’s reaction to it is “intentional racial discrimination.”

Republican members of a Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee on Tuesday passed legislation to give Alabama the option to call a special election for two Montgomery-area State Senate districts later this year. 

Members of the House Ways and Means General Fund Committee approved legislation introduced during the specially called legislative session on Tuesday that would require the state to hold a special election using a 2023 congressional map currently blocked by a federal court.

Mobile Mayor Spiro Cheriogotis called on a local war hero during the city council meeting Tuesday as he presented a proclamation observing May 16 Armed Forces Day.

Monday, on Mobile radio's FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall argued the U.S. Supreme Court's recent majority ruling in Louisiana vs. Callais "vindicates" Alabama's legal arguments against racially based redistricting.

Leadership changes have taken place at Pine Rest Funeral Home and Memorial Park in Foley, following complaints from customers who said they paid for headstones they never received.

Jeremy Devito of Athens, a self-proclaimed progressive and "proud member" of the terrorist organization Antifa, promoted "A Town Hall for Y’all of Us" on his campaign social media account with little public interaction.

The Mobile County Public School System (MCPSS) has placed the Mary G. Montgomery head football coach on leave.

Representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Southern Poverty Law Center and other civil rights organizations across the state converged on the Montgomery State House to protest as lawmakers started the process of potentially redrawing the state’s Congressional map.

State Sen. Chris Elliott (R-Josephine) filed legislation on Tuesday on the first day of a special session to give Alabama the option to call a special election for two Montgomery-area State Senate districts later this year. 

Minutes after the Alabama House of Representatives adjourned for the first day of the recently called special session to address the state’s congressional map, House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) spoke about his expectations moving forward and addressed speculation surrounding the legislature’s actions.

As the Alabama Legislature convenes in special session this week to address the state's congressional map, U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) said the push for redistricting is President Donald Trump's way of tipping the midterm elections in Republicans' favor.

As the Alabama Legislature is gathering in Montgomery for a special session to address the potential fallout of the Louisiana v. Callais U.S. Supreme Court decision, State Sen. Rodger Smitherman (D-Birmingham) has a bleak view of what lies ahead.

On Sunday, Wiregrass Republican Youth Outreach, a program of the Wiregrass Republican Women’s Club, hosted a panel for representatives from the University of Alabama College Republicans and College Republicans at Auburn at the Enterprise Country Club, who discussed how students can get involved in conservative politics.

A liberal, transgender candidate running for Alabama House District 25 is facing steep odds in his campaign to unseat Republican incumbent State Rep. Phillip Rigsby (R-Huntsville).

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed an emergency motion on Monday with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate or stay district court injunctions blocking Alabama from using its 2021 map for State Senate districts. 

The results are in, and according to a new survey Birmingham-Hoover is the top place in the country for college graduates to land a job.

According to the department, the financial examination was used to determine if public officers, agents, and employees with the Space Science Exhibit Commission and the Space Science Exhibit Finance Authority were properly and lawfully accounting for all money and other public assets.

As the state kicks off its two-month-long grocery tax holiday, former Alabama Republican Party chairman John Wahl, a candidate for lieutenant governor, is calling for the state to make the cut permanent.

An Alabama man filed a copyright infringement claim after he said his life’s work was stolen by the U.S. Army.