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U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) recently announced 21 Alabamians had accepted their appointment to a U.S. service academy. 

Kenneth Cox announced his candidacy for Hoover City Council in late April. Over the weekend, he publicly declared that he will be seeking Place 2.

Republican Secretary of State candidate Andrew Sorrell, who currently serves as state auditor, recently reported $50,027 in contributions raised in just 12 days, a new fundraising record on an initial campaign finance report for the office.

On Monday, the College Football Hall of Fame announced the names for its 2026 ballot, and four who left their marks in the state of Alabama were included.

Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries Rick Pate announced on Monday he will run for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in the 2026 election.

Alireza Doroudi, a University of Alabama mechanical engineering doctoral student from Iran arrested by ICE in March, left the United States on Sunday.

The trial for six suspects in the April 15, 2023, Dadeville Sweet 16 party shooting are scheduled for trial on Tuesday.

Jay Mitchell, who resigned from the Alabama Supreme Court last month, has officially announced his candidacy for the state’s next attorney general to take over the term-limited Steve Marshall.

One victim has died and another is wounded after a shooting Sunday at Mobile's Saenger Theater. Suspect Marcus Sanders turned himself in and is charged with murder.

Tuberville said it would be a waste of Democrats’ time and money to bring the challenge and that there’s nothing they can do to stop him from running.

While the likelihood of such a bid is uncertain, multiple sources familiar with the possibility tell 1819 News that Pearl is being recruited by high-profile Alabama Republicans as a potential candidate.

Despite Republican detractors in the U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Monrovia) is still hopeful for the passage of the so-called "big, beautiful" spending bill backed by House Republicans and President Donald Trump.

Complaining is a fool’s errand. Mere complaints solve nothing. Move past the complaints and make your 'here' better.

The fourth-ranked Tigers used strong pitching from starter Andreas Alvarez and 10 runs in two middle innings to surge past North Carolina State 11-1 in the Auburn Regional championship on Sunday night at Plainsman Park. The win marks Auburn’s fourth regional championship under head coach Butch Thompson’s tutelage. 

Three people are undergoing medical treatment after two were shot and one injured in a melee inside Mobile's Saenger Theatre.

June 2025 will showcase sky events in Alabama, including the Full Strawberry Moon on June 11th, a conjunction of the Moon and Venus on June 22nd, and the Summer Solstice on June 21st.  

If we want others to respect our beliefs, ideas and persons, then why not put our best foot forward from the get-go, signaling through our clothes the respect we both expect to give and take?

A 20-year educator is the new principal at ACCEL charter school in Mobile. Dr. Jaclyn Stringer

Alabama has been included in the official NOAA forecast for Northern Lights Sunday and Monday as a Geostorm approaches Earth.

That great standard of liberty, the Magna Carta, is 810 years old this month.

Let’s not allow our communities to be bought and brainwashed. Let’s protect the airwaves the same way Douglass protected freedom – with courage, strong beliefs, and a deep love for truth.

Gov. Kay Ivey announced on Friday that she was making several appointments to the newly re-formed State Board of Veterans Affairs, after clearing the legislature earlier this year as one of the most contentious bills of the session.

From mining critical minerals and fixing Medicade to forming a Western hemisphere alliance, U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) is at the forefront of several key issues to secure America’s future. That’s why he recently announced plans to run for a seventh term, despite having once committed to limiting himself to five.

The Bruce Pearl for U.S. Senate discussion appears to have some behind-the-scenes steam. However, one lawmaker on Capitol Hill is already voicing his support for the Auburn head basketball coach.

Alabama baseball’s season is officially over after a horrible showing in the Hattiesburg Regional.

The Montgomery Zoo announced a rhinoceros recently treated for a bacterial infection of the horn, will return to exhibit soon.