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The Foley City Council will consider a resolution authorizing the City to to to bid on a $6 million hurricane shelter for first responders.

Alabama Law Enforcement Agency will “further intervene” in Montgomery after a deadly downtown shootout on Saturday night that left two dead and 14 injured, according to Gov. Kay Ivey.

The Execution Intervention Project placed a billboard in Montgomery in protest of the planned execution of Anthony Boyd, who brutally murdered a man in 1993.

Astronomers are gearing up for a breathtaking sight on Monday night.

ESPN cancelled appearances by Paul Finebaum on the network after he recently expressed interest in running as a Republican for U.S. Senate in Alabama in 2026.

A city-funded HBCU Classic party turned deadly in downtown Montgomery on Saturday night.

A Florence man has been charged with second degree domestic violence after a nearly 12 hour standoff with local law enforcement over the weekend.

The Mobile Police Department has concluded its investigation into a deadly bar shooting over the weekend.

There’s no love lost between the Southern Poverty Law Center and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, who recently praised the FBI’s decision to cut all ties with the organization.

Students at Auburn University taking “Crime and Justice in America” are learning queer criminology, which includes lessons on radical gender ideology that contradict Alabama’s definition of sex, Critical Race Theory, the notion that the Black Lives Matter movement has been a positive influence on the nation and other progressive theories on race and racism.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. fired Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, last week after she filed a whistleblower complaint.

Alabama should revisit “the conversation about the state’s authority over its capital” after a Saturday night shootout in downtown Montgomery left two dead and fourteen injured, according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.

Morgan Murphy, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 2026 in Alabama and a former Trump administration official, called on Sunday for the National Guard to be sent to Montgomery, similar to other blue cities across the nation.

During a meeting of the Alabama Legislature's Contract Review Committee last week, House Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) made waves with his criticism of the Ivey administration's West Alabama Corridor project, which, if completed, would make a long-envisioned four-lane route between Mobile and Tuscaloosa a reality.

Two are dead and 14 are injured after a mass shooting in downtown Montgomery while the City was hosting and funding an HBCU.

A young girl from South Alabama has been rescued and returned home after being kidnapped in September from Orange Beach by her mother and taken to Mexico.

According to reports from Dothan CBS affiliate WTVY's Ken Curtis and Rickey Stokes News, a driver of a car that allegedly struck a motorcycle on Thursday and killed the driver was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

In a video message released to the media on Friday, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) pulled no punches when discussing the Democrat-led government shutdown, laying the blame for it squarely at the feet of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and his fellow liberals.

Emily Pinon, a pharmacist practicing in Bibb County, sued the Alabama State Board of Pharmacy on Wednesday over new emergency rules they passed in August regulating the profession.

Lawmakers will likely consider Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA)-related legislation in the 2026 session, according to State Sen. Donnie Chesteen (R-Geneva).

A student brought a gun to Montgomery Public Schools’ JAG High School on Thursday.

A Huntsville man was arrested earlier this week by authorities with the Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Huntsville Police Department's Anti-Crime team after punching an HPD K-9 while being apprehended.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirms that the agency has cut all ties to Montgomery based Southern Poverty Law Center. "The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine. Their so-called “hate map” has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence," Patel wrote in an X post.

Karen Lakey, former Motorsports Hall of Fame Commission accounts manager, allegedly stole $236,610 from the commission, according to a recent audit.

The Greene County Sheriff’s Office owes the State of Alabama $4,966,427.69, according to an audit released on Friday.

Following the death of three people in a multi-boat crash during a Major League Fishing tournament on Smith Lake, a professional angler from Georgia has now been indicted by a Cullman County grand jury on three counts of manslaughter.

The next governor of Alabama is "going to shut down" the ongoing U.S. Highway 43-State Highway 69 West Alabama Corridor expansion project, according to House Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile).