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The Alabama Legislature dropped a high-scoring affair Wednesday to their Mississippi counterparts 16-11 at Riverwalk Stadium in the second edition of their Battle of Tombigbee match-up.

Eddie Smith is still running to be the next mayor of Opelika despite a recent cancer diagnosis. 

The Gulf Shores Police Department is asking for information to find the owners of an urn that washed ashore on April 17.

"Grease" the musical comes to Fairhope's Theatre on the Bluff April 30-May 3. Guest star is Lucy Buffett, famous restaurateur and sister of Jimmy Buffett.

Resist the spirit of the age, and you just may raise the leaders of the next generation.

Members of the Pike Road Town Council passed an ordinance on Wednesday pausing all new gas station construction for one year.

The Alabama House Health Committee advanced on Wednesday legislation changing the scope of practice for the state’s midwives, despite opposition from midwives and other supporters of non-hospital births.

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a public hearing on Wednesday on legislation expanding civil and criminal immunity for law enforcement officers in Alabama.

New FBI Director Kash Patel said Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal will play a key role in the Bureau’s future expansion and fight against crime.

Military veterans and families can get assistance with obtaining the benefits they earned. U.S. Rep. Barry Moore is hosting a Veterans Benefits Fair April 25 in Daphne.

Legislation that would allow for an annexation of an area of Cullman County by Smith Lake to establish a framework to attract a resort to the area passed the Senate on Tuesday.

Hoover City Council meetings can be described in many ways, but boring is rarely one of them. This week’s meeting was no exception.  

The National Science Foundation canceled three grants worth $1,761,892 on Friday to the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Auburn University.

A man slated to be put to death on Thursday for the repeated rape and eventual murder of a Chilton County woman in 2010 is dropping all of his appeals ahead of his scheduled lethal injection, saying he believes in an “eye for an eye.”

House Democrats were in an especially combative mood on Tuesday, spending hours of debate time protesting the House calendar and a proposed bill changing the voter registration software used by Alabama’s state and local election officials.  

Libraries across the state rushed to remove sexually explicit material from their children and teen sections following new guidelines by the Alabama Public Library System in May 2024. The APLS threatened to withhold funding from any library that did not comply with new regulations.

The stars of the Motown sound come to Birmingham on June 5 -- the Temptations and the Four Tops.

We need not fear death, because we know that, as Christ rose, we too will rise from the dead and, as believers, live eternally with Him. 

First responders fought a fire at an Enterprise nursing home for over 15 hours. Local restaurants showed up and kept them in food and water.

Members of the Senate passed K-12 off-campus religious instruction legislation on Tuesday.

Local legislation that would legalize pari-mutuel gambling at the White Hall Entertainment Center in Lowndes County passed the Alabama Senate on Tuesday by a 18-7 margin.

The announcement of President Donald Trump’s planned commencement speech at the University of Alabama this year was met with much support and excitement. But a vocal minority, including alumni, faculty and a college Democrat group, could not stifle their ire, instead venting their indignation on social media.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has released the 18th edition of its annual Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index, ranking Alabama in the top 20 for economic outlook. However, if the Yellowhammer State wants to out-compete its neighbors, it may have to change its income tax structure.

Birmingham Water Works Board chair Tereshia Huffman allegedly “participated in unethical practices” with contributions from the board’s Community Educational Program to charities affiliated with her relatives, according to an ethics complaint filed on Monday.

No. 18 Alabama took the season-long sweep against Samford with a 11-7 victory on Tuesday.

No. 11 Auburn was just 2-for-22 with runners on base and 1-for-16 with runners in scoring position, leaving a season-high 15 runners stranded on the night but used strong performances on the mound to complete the season sweep of No. 21 Georgia Tech with a 1-0 win on Tuesday night at Plainsman Park.

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg's audacious rulings against the Trump administration’s foreign policy are eviscerating the constitutional bedrock of our Republic.