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After hours of delay in the House on Wednesday and early Thursday morning, President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” still didn’t have enough support to pass.

Members of the Hayneville Town Council voted to disband the police department at a special-called meeting on Wednesday.

A Montgomery man will spend 20 months in prison after pleading guilty to illegal possession of a machinegun.

The Gulf of America Homeland Security Task Force arrested 15 suspected illegal immigrants Wednesday in Mobile.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) recently introduced the Equal Representation Act which would ensure only legal citizens are factored into the count for congressional districts and the Electoral College map that determines presidential elections. 

President Donald Trump nominated Randall Jones, a Guntersville insurance agency co-owner, to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on Tuesday.

A man is facing a charge of impersonating a peace officer after police said he tried to convince people he was a DEA agent.

Advocates for women’s equality in sports won a significant victory Tuesday when the University of Pennsylvania announced it would strip the medals won by transgender athlete Lia Thomas and award them to the rightful female winners, along with a formal apology.

Ignoring the idiom "You can't judge a book by its cover," AL(dot)com, an outlet owned by Alabama Media Group, a subsidiary of New York billionaires Donald and Samuel Newhouse's Advance Publications, recently wrote a story focusing on three minutes of a one-hour-and-a-half podcast to shame a Christian podcaster and former reality TV star Madison Prewett Troutt for a previous addiction to sexual sin, ignoring the broader message of her confession and faith based recovery.

The Orange Beach City Council approved a resolution to spend $81,000 on new Flock Safety cameras and software.

Significant changes are coming to the University of Montevallo as the school named Terry Roberson interim president, effective July 1.

BamaCarry, Alabama’s largest state-based Second Amendment organization, announced on Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the City of Selma for “trampling the constitutional rights of one of its members.”

Alabama Republican Party chairman John Wahl announced a series of steps the party has taken to ensure financial transparency and accountability ahead of the 2026 election cycle by enacting a series of internal policies, which include an independent audit of ALGOP’s finances.

The Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office removed 29 dogs from a home Tuesday, overwhelming the local animal shelter.

The Mobile to NOLA Amtrak route knocked out in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina restarts August 18.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) has raised over $4 million since launching his campaign for governor on May 27. 

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and law enforcement leaders from across Alabama formally called on Governor Kay Ivey on Monday to reappoint Leigh Gwathney as Chair of the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Caroleene Dobson, a candidate for Secretary of State in the 2026 Republican primary, loaned her campaign $500,000 on Tuesday.

St. Louis Auxiliary Bishop Mark S. Rivituso was appointed by Pope Leo XIV as the third archbishop of Mobile.

Could Alligator Alcatraz be coming to Alabama?

Alabama’s Republican U.S. Senators were ecstatic on Tuesday after the body barely passed the spending package pushed by President Donald Trump, bringing it closer to the president’s promise to sign the bill before Friday, the Fourth of July.

A new hemp law recently passed by the Alabama Legislature doesn’t prohibit interstate shipping of hemp products, according to Montgomery County Circuit Judge James Anderson.

President Donald Trump has had quite the last two weeks, marked by recent policy wins in foreign conflicts, trade deals, the stock market and the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Democrats have been busy obstructing Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and promoting socialist candidate Zohran Mamdan for New York’s mayor.

Last year, Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law House Bill 66, which requires country-of-origin labeling for restaurants and grocery stores in Alabama. The legislation, sponsored by State Rep. Chip Brown (R-Hollingers Island) and State Sen. David Sessions (R-Grand Bay), went into effect on Oct. 1, 2024.

The re-born bottling plant in Opelika has been sold but will continue to operate as an event venue.

Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft is providing more information following an illegal immigration raid at the construction site of the new Gulf Shores High School.

President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” will “gut Alabamians” living near or below the poverty line, according to Retirement Systems of Alabama CEO David Bronner.