In 1991, Stentson and Dianne Carpenter took matters into their own hands. Their son, Christopher, was living with special needs and after years of worrying about his care, they wanted to ensure those needs were met.
The Alabama Department of Archives & History (ADAH) caught several lawmakers' attention after hosting a luncheon last week about Alabama's LGBTQ history.
A stunning view of the Gulf of Mexico and a menu to please all your taste buds is exactly what you can expect at Orange Beach’s newest restaurant.
Road trips are in our family's DNA. It is what we do. But that Saturday marked the first time I saw three wrecks in six hours.
Thursday’s event wasn’t the first time the department waded head-first into woke social issues.
During an interview with Alabama Public Television's "Capitol Journal," Alabama Republican Party chairman John Wahl insisted Republicans would work to not only be competitive but sweep all seven districts.
Rev. John Blount of St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Panama City, Fla., called into question the integrity of the United Methodist Church’s Alabama West Florida Conference leadership at this week’s annual conference.
Medicaid expansion was notably absent in the 2023 session. But proponents are back with the same tired arguments, likely already eyeing another push in 2024, if not before.
The man arrested for a March 27 shooting near The Hangout restaurant and Gulf Place in Gulf Shores was denied bond.
Legislators could convene in mid-July in a special session to consider new Congressional maps.
Members of the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC) voted to pause all proceedings related to the current offering of medical cannabis business licenses.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks), chair of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, accused U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Tuesday of including false information and omitting details in a report about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
My hope is that the bench and bar eventually develop a deeper understanding of why we have precedent and when we should not follow it.
Remarks were given by Dr. Maigen Sullivan of the Invisible Histories Project (IHP), a Birmingham-based “repository for the preservation of the history of LGBTQ life first in the state of Alabama and then the entire Southeast.”
On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) blocked the ninth attempt by Senate Democrats to break his hold on military promotions over the Department of Defense’s abortion policy.
Gov. Kay Ivey signed grocery tax cut legislation passed during the final days of the legislative session into law on Thursday.
Reading, writing and the rhetoric of black feminism.
"The things that they’re doing to divert the attention of the American people away, we’re not going to let that happen. We’re going to focus on Durham, we’re going to focus on the weaponization of the FBI and the DOJ. We intend to hold them accountable.”
The dates for the Alabama House District 55 special election have been decided. The seat was vacated after State Rep. Fred Plump, Jr. (D-Fairfield) resigned in May.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) added U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) to his leadership team as an informal adviser.
The founder of Moms for Liberty’s Madison chapter spoke out on Friday against a left-wing activist organization for placing the parental rights organization on its “hate map” alongside the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-nazis.
Headed into this year's legislative session, some speculated the Alabama Education Association (AEA), which functions as the labor union for Alabama's public K-12 school teachers, would take a different conservative-friendly approach in 2023.
AM radio won’t die out anytime soon if legislation recently filed in Congress becomes law.
Rick Burgess and Bill “Bubba” Bussey of the “Rick & Bubba Show” discussed how questioning the U.S. government’s stance on COVID-19 has been mocked and ridiculed. Now, they say more evidence is emerging that some of the so-called conspiracies may actually be true.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "The Jeff Poor Show" as they discuss Alabama's administrative state and its resistance to governmental transparency.
With the winding, potholed road and dilapidated houses, consumed by vines and kudzu, it’s a journey that can easily take one back in time.
U.S. Reps. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville), Jerry Carl (R-Mobile, Barry Moore (R-Enterprise), Gary Palmer (R-Hoover), Mike Rogers (R-Saks) and Dale Strong (R-Huntsville) were among the 189 Republican co-sponsors of the resolution, which seeks to overturn a new ATF rule which reclassified pistols as short-barreled rifles if they have a stabilizing brace.