
Lance LeFleur is retiring as the director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM).

The Southern Poverty Law Center is currently advertising for the position of “Executive Director of the SPLC Action Fund” with the job posting saying “the minimum starting salary is $265,000 annually.”

In the final days of his administration, Joe Biden on Friday declared the 28th Amendment, also known as the Equal Rights Amendment, the “law of the land,” despite never being ratified by Congress.

Longtime Bluff Park resident Robin Schultz has confirmed in an exclusive interview with 1819 News that he is running for the Hoover City Council in the upcoming municipal election.

Alabama Republican Party chairman John Wahl has been re-elected to serve as Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee for the Southern Region.
State legislators should pass a fee on international wire transfers to combat illegal immigration in Alabama, according to the America First Policy Institute (AFPI).

The trial over an election challenge in Conecuh County is set for January 23.

Legislators will likely consider increasing funding and expanding a newly formed Metro Area Crime Suppression Unit in Montgomery to combat criminal activity in Alabama cities.

A Jefferson County inmate took a deputy hostage inside a jail cell Monday, according to court documents.

The Baldwin County Coroner is continuing to ask for a new, multi-million facility, saying that if nothing is done, the county could learn a lesson the hard way.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that Wells Griffith, a Mobile native and longtime GOP operative, would rejoin the upcoming administration as the Under Secretary of Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy.

Hoover City Councilman Steve McClinton announced his intention to seek reelection to the council in the August 26 election this year.

Mobile County honored the retirement of Probate Judge Don Davis Thursday after 25 years in office.

An illegal alien was sentenced in connection with her fraudulent assumption of a United States citizen’s identity and her use of that identity to vote in multiple elections in Alabama and obtain multiple United States passports.

On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump announced a cease-fire deal had been reached in Gaza between Israel and Hamas to release Israeli hostages.

Alabama’s entire Republican congressional delegation received A+ ratings on the most recent Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America scorecard.

New congressman Shomari Figures could seek funds for I-10 bridge project after being named to House Infrastructure Committee.

Members of the state’s Certificate of Need Review Board voted to approve a new ambulatory surgery center in east Montgomery on Wednesday.

Troy Cornelius has been working the waters of the Mobile Bay for 30 years. For generations, his family has used the area for fishing, crabbing, shrimping and growing oysters. However, Cornelius told 1819 News the oyster farm is dying out due to dredging and restoration projects along the Bay.

“It was just the right thing to do. And I got to thinking, with everything that's going on, with all the turmoil, if somebody looked up and was able to read that, maybe that would make them feel like they're in a better place or make the decision that they feel led to be made.”

Attorneys for Demetrius Frazier, the man slated to be executed next month for for the 1991 rape and murder of a Birmingham woman, are asking the execution be hated, claiming the state’s protocol for nitrogen hypoxia violates the U.S. Constitution.

Rev. John Ed Mathison awarded "Synergize Leadership Award" from Global Church Leadership Conference.
OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company, is funding a new Axios Local newsroom in Huntsville.

Mountain Brook city manager Sam Gaston will be retiring from his position as city manager in November this year.

The University of Alabama President, Dr. Stuart R. Bell, announced on Wednesday his plans to step down from the presidency mid-summer after occupying the position for over a decade.

U.S. Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) recently applauded the Wednesday announcement from the Food and Drug Administration that it was banning Red Dye No. 3 for use in America’s food supply.