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Earlier this week, experts provided an update on the Lake Purdy Dam and Reservoir located in northern Shelby County to the board of Central Alabama Water. The update, which emphasized that the dam is safe, came as media reports clearly aimed to undermine the new board, leading to questions about the insurance policies in effect and the new board's efforts to review the original plan, budgeted at $28 million. 

Courthouses in the Middle District of Alabama will be closed on Fridays starting this week due to the ongoing federal government shutdown that started on October 1.

A community is mourning after the death of an 18-year-old who was shot last weekend during a bonfire gathering.

At 22 days and counting, the current government shutdown is officially the third longest in history. Healthcare remains a major sticking point, with Senate Democrats refusing to pass a clean continuing resolution in hopes of negotiating an extension on Affordable Care Act subsidies.

The Alabama Public Library Service (APLS) heard from over 8,000 people during a six-week public comment period concerning a proposed amendment deeming gender ideology as inappropriate for children and youth. On Tuesday, the APLS board heard verbal arguments from both sides of the matter.

Kristin Nelson and Garrett Dixon will now go head to head in a runoff election after neither candidate received more than 50% of the vote in Tuesday's Special Election Primary for House District 38.

Montgomery County Deputy District Attorney Marianalyn Coleman asked District Judge Michael Godwin on Monday to call a hearing to increase the bond of one of the four suspects arrested for their alleged involvement in a deadly downtown shootout in Montgomery on October 4, who was released on a $60,000 bond.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry passed U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Auburn) Talladega National Forest Expansion Act as part of a legislative package with several other U.S. Forest Service lands bills on Tuesday.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Harold “Hal” Mooty as a U.S. district judge for the Northern District of Alabama by a vote of 66-32 on Tuesday.

A Huntsville family is grieving the loss of a father and two daughters following a fatal plane crash in the 1.5 million-acre Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana on Friday.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall expressed grave concerns regarding the release of a suspect involved in the October 4 Montgomery mass shooting.

Randolph County community members are coming together to improve the quality of life by paving roads.

Better to hire a loyal and cunning fox ready to lay and recognize traps rather than some dutiful guard dog who only knows to bark “justice” when a hen goes missing. After all, in politics, sometimes hens need to go missing. 

When the Fairhope Public Library Board of Trustees met on Monday, chairman Randal Wright said she doesn’t think the Alabama Public Library Service will do what they said they will do.

State Rep. Greg Barnes (R-Jasper) announced his re-election campaign for State House District 13 on Monday. 

The Department of Education has opened up the review period for the textbooks used throughout the state with the Board of Education set to vote on the State Textbook Committee’s Social Studies and Arts Education, Grades K-12 recommendations at the November 13, 2025 Board meeting.

With the election just weeks away, Democrat candidate Zohran Mamdani is still the frontrunner in New York City’s mayoral race.

One of the four suspects arrested for their alleged involvement in a deadly downtown shootout in Montgomery on October 4 was released on a $60,000 bond.

A Cleveland High School senior has only days to live, according to her family, after being shot in the head at a bonfire gathering over the weekend.

Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze says that a statement of support ‘Would be huge’.

Governor Kay Ivey is celebrating the success of the CHOOSE Act by spotlighting families who are successfully using the program. To date, she’s highlighted three families: the Carbonells in Birmingham, the McDades in Montgomery, and the Siemenses from Dothan.

It would be easy to quit the United Nations, recall our troops, and embrace the adage of fortress America. But we cannot disengage from the world no matter how much we are disliked, abused and misunderstood.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall recently joined a 16-state coalition in support of President Donald Trump’s bombings of drug cartel boats to combat the flow of drugs into the United States.

The Alabama Farmers Federation endorsed Gulf Shores businessman Joe Freeman for House District 95.

The Fairhope Police Department released the identity of a woman arrested after dressing in a penis costume during the “No Kings” protest on Saturday.

U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) spoke about last weekend's nationwide "No Kings" protests on Huntsville WVNN's "The Yaffee Program" on Monday morning.

Members of the Montgomery Personnel Board on Monday unanimously approved delaying the mayoral appointment of Donald Watkins Jr. as the city’s new Small Business Development Director at an elevated salary.