The Birmingham City Council unanimously approved several measures on Tuesday morning to spend what Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said is a budget surplus of over $80 million.
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is scaling back the scheduled release of over 400 inmates on Tuesday to just under 100.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss Alabama's budget growth over the past 4 years, a whopping 36% increase.
He is putting his full support behind the cities’ and state’s application for the RAISE grant to construct a new northbound bridge that will more efficiently and more safely handle the area’s growing traffic.
FAU carries a 20-game win streak into Bartow Arena with 14 of those wins coming in Conference USA play.
School principals in Jefferson County now know how to administer a drug that reverses the effect of opioid overdoses.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined 24 other attorneys general last week in a lawsuit over a Department of Labor (DOL) rule allowing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investments in retiree accounts.
Restore men’s individual trust in something higher than themselves — in something they themselves could never begin to create or truly understand — and they may again begin to instill confidence in institutions.
The St. Clair County Sheriff's Office announced the arrest of a school guidance counselor Monday in connection to an inappropriate relationship with a student.
No agencies have claimed responsibility for a big boom heard Friday across the coast of Alabama.
Attorney General Steve Marshall has filed a lawsuit to prevent the early release of over 400 inmates slated to vacate various Alabama prisons on Tuesday.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss abortion drugs and the fact that one in seventeen women need medical treatment after using them.
“Before, we could only speculate. Now we know: the ‘Russian threat’ was, in this case at least, just a bunch of ordinary Americans dressed up to look like a Red Menace."
Nearly 13 years after the high-profile death of 45-year-old realtor Angel Downs in Gulf Shores, the true crime show “Accident, Suicide or Murder” on Oxygen featured her story.
In 2022, Birmingham experienced one of its most violent years in modern history, totaling at least 144 homicides. Several of the homicides involved firearms, many of which were drive-by-shootings.
The Alabama Sheriff’s Association has come out in full condemnation of the January 7 police beating that allegedly resulted in the death of Tyre Nichols.
A tough week of games saw both Alabama and Auburn drop in this week's Associated Press top 25 college basketball poll.
Conservatives want our children to be educated. Liberal progressives just want our children.
Education is the “number one issue that keeps coming up” in District 100, according to new State Rep. Mark Shirey (R-Mobile).
UAB baseball coach Casey Dunn took the Blazers to Baseball Country, which is near Tuscaloosa, to help bring his team together.
A large group of midyear football enrollees are already hard at work for Troy.
A bill in the Alabama Legislature seeks to prohibit companies from mandating employees receive a microchip implant as a condition for employment.
School choice is looking to be a hot topic in the upcoming state legislative session, and the Eagle Forum has already helped draft a bill to get the discussion going on day one.
You might think February, May and November are simply three months of the year. But in the world of television, they’re known as “sweeps months.”
In the beginning, homesteading seemed like such a crazy leap of faith, but now it’s turning into the greatest blessing.
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin and Birmingham Police Department (BPD) Chief Scott Thurmond both weighed in on the killing of Tyre Nichols by several police officers in Memphis on January 7.
UNA gets the ASUN win behind the shooting of Daniel Ortiz. South Alabama leads from start to finish in a Sun Belt Conference win over visiting Troy.