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The unofficial election results in Anniston are in and Ciara Smith appears to have won the crowded race with 57.31% of the votes.

Ranae Bartlett, a current city council member, beat out her two opponents, Margi Daly and Steve Smith, in Tuesday’s municipal elections, earning 4,581 votes, or 56%.

Athens Mayor William Marks won reelection Tuesday in a three-way race against opponents Danny Whitefield and Mark Wilson.

Eddie Smith won the election to be the next mayor of Opelika on Tuesday.

City Councilman Ben Short will be the new mayor of Trussville. Short won in a three-way race between him, fellow City Councilwoman Lisa Bright and sitting Jefferson County tax collector JT Smallwood.

The unofficial election results in Mobile show a likely runoff between State Rep. Barbara Drummond (D-Mobile) and former Mobile District Court Judge Spiro Cheriogotis.

Unofficial election returns in Bay Minette show incumbent Mayor Bob Willis was defeated by challenger Joshua O. Brown. Willis served as mayor for 13 years.

Mayor Woody Baird and Mike Densmore are headed to a runoff in the Alexander City mayoral election.

City Councilwoman Jennifer Andress handily won Homewood's mayoral election with 71% of the vote.

Voters in Spanish Fort sent a message from the ballot box Tuesday when they elected a new mayor.

Longtime Pike Road Mayor Gordon Stone won re-election on Tuesday.

Municipalities in Baldwin County announced the preliminary results from municipal elections.

All four incumbents seeking reelection on Tuesday for the Fairhope City Council faced challengers, and three were able to hold off challenges to win reelection.

The City of Mountain Brook voted to reject Democrat David Silverstein, re-electing Gerald Garner for another term in Place 2. Joe Sander was also elected to Place 4, defeating Becky Holt.

As a registered nurse living in Pelham, I know that the ideas politicians come up with about health care can travel quickly from the halls of Congress to the doctor’s office.

Military members surprised students at two Baldwin County Schools on Monday.

Attorney General Steve Marshall announced on Tuesday that a former employee of the Alabama Medicaid Agency has been convicted for the theft of over $100,000 in public funds.

The trial for former Hanceville police chief Jason Marlin has been pushed back to November 17.

Jason Borden is still searching for answers about what caused his son severe injuries last week at Deshler High School, and the contradictory stories he’s heard from school officials suggest to him that someone may be trying to cover up the truth.

The Alabama National Guard will begin assisting the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in deportation efforts.

On Monday, the Albertville Police Department announced the arrest of six individuals as part of an undercover child exploitation operation. Three of the suspects were found to be in the country illegally and were placed on a detainer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through its Administration for Children and Families, demanded on Tuesday that Alabama and 45 states and territories remove all references to gender ideology in their federally-funded Personal Responsibility Education Program educational materials within 60 days. 

During a Monday appearance on "The Charlie Kirk Show," U.S. Sen. Tommy (R-Auburn) backed the Trump administration's efforts to stop illegal immigration and deploy the National Guard to major cities like Washington, D.C., to crack down on crime.

Four Albertville teenagers have been charged with criminal mischief and theft in connection with a spree of vandalism that occurred in July, involving damage to street signs, mailboxes and political campaign signs.

Voters in South Baldwin County municipalities turned out in steady numbers for their local elections on Tuesday.

If Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed needs to make a villain out of Alabama’s new billion dollar prison to scare young boys into manhood, so be it. But his message could be better. 

State Rep. Mack Butler (R-Rainbow City) has pre-filed legislation to prohibit classroom instruction or discussions regarding gender identity or sexual orientation in public pre-K-12 schools.