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A Boaz man is currently being held without bond in the DeKalb County Jail after police say he attempted to sexually abuse an eight-year-old girl.

The Department of Government Efficiency cut $7,774,758.19 in federal diversity, equity and inclusion grants for science, technology, engineering and mathematics to four Alabama universities last week.

Monday, during a speech delivered to the Tennessee Valley Republican Club at the Brewers Co-op at the Stovehouse in Huntsville, Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth said he had ruled out a possible bid for U.S. Senate.

Mud dumping in Mobile Bay is impacting fishermen and quality of life, according to the Alabama Commercial Fishermen Association.

Let’s be honest, Democrats are in complete disarray on an epic scale. There is no grand figure around which to rally their base. This should serve as a warning to Republicans.

In a video message posted May 8, 2025, Hoover Mayor Frank Brocato seemingly took credit for the best of Hoover without addressing any significant concerns facing the city in the launch of his reelection campaign.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) tried to play the race card against President Donald Trump recently for allegedly trying to "whitewash our history" by firing the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden.

Could a Tuberville-Jones rematch be in the works?

After dropping the first game of the series, No. 23 Alabama baseball swept both games on Sunday to win the series over No. 6 Georgia.

President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs have brought the issue of global trade to the fore.

During this week's broadcast of Alabama Public Television's "Capitol Journal," House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) defended the legislature's decision to allow the 2023 overtime tax cut to expire.

President Trump's 10 points for the UA graduates were stellar but not reported, much. He makes another address at West Point graduation.

It is your last chance to watch the Righteous Brothers in Alabama. Their Farewell Tour comes to Oxford May 29.

If you like off-color jokes and sexual humor, don't come to watch 'Clean Comedian' Nate Bargatze on July 16 at Orange Beach's The Wharf.

The City of Orange Beach will celebrate a groundbreaking ceremony for the Margaritaville Resort at The Wharf.

Maybe she had begun to glimpse the truth that life is the greatest performance of all, and that her chosen and unchosen role was to become, alas, more fully herself. 

If Abraham Lincoln was the Great Emancipator and Ronald Reagan was the Great Communicator, then President Donald Trump is the Great Disruptor, according to Publius PR CEO A.J. Rice.

Let’s encourage mothers as they go through the daily grind, rather than lecturing them on how many children they have or asking when they’re going to get a real job. Because it’s those women who are raising one of the few hopes we have for the future.

A special patriotic event in Baldwin County will include chef-inspired dishes, prizes and awards, but it will also benefit a much-needed cause.

Some beach areas in Gulf Shores are closed as crews build stages and scenes for the 2025 Morgan Wallen’s Sand in My Boots Festival. The festival will be May 16 – 18 and replaces the long-running Hangout Festival.

We have been walking the Camino de Santiago for a long time now. I don’t even remember when we started. It seems like 600 years ago we set out. I don’t even remember why we’re out here.

President Donald Trump signed into law a bill on Friday sponsored by U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) that blocks the Biden-Harris administration’s last-minute attempt on Christmas Eve 2024 to ban tankless natural gas water heaters. 

After signing recently passed legislation into law, Gov. Kay Ivey has officially made Juneteenth an official state holiday, requiring all state offices to close in recognition of the holiday that has been the focus of Democratic lawmakers for years.

With President Donald Trump’s publicly good relationship with Alabama’s members of Congress and frequent trips to the state, you might have expected him to have sampled the state’s prized culinary creation, but you would be wrong.

Gen X is watching the generation that preceded it – the Baby Boomers – complain and demand their Social Security. Gen X could not care less.

An investigation in Bibb County led to the arrest of a Hispanic man in connection with a child sex trafficking operation.

Judge Matt has recovered enough from a major heart attack to come home and continue his recovery there. Some friends call it a miracle.