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Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation into law on Tuesday, granting participants in the state’s school choice system protection from discrimination when participating in high school athletics after Ivey and other state leaders filed a lawsuit last year.

Have you ever noticed the cruel irony that some who cry out for conflict bring about harmony, while those who scream for peace – by the way they scream – seem to bring war? 

Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation into law on Monday that would allow the removal of tenured faculty and limit the authority of faculty-led governing bodies starting in October.

A Walton County, Fla. grand jury indicted the surgeon who performed a surgery on a Muscle Shoals man who died while on vacation in August 2024.

Approximately half of a $243,530 payment sent by the city of Montgomery to TrafficServe, a Louisiana private security company, went to an LLC registered by the CEO of the company and to the brother of former Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins for consulting expenses.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service recently announced it was closing a research and development facility in Huntsville.

Business in downtown Cullman came to a standstill Monday morning as the city’s historic Stiefelmeyer Building caught fire.

While GOP lawmakers are likely to discuss how to end the current partial shutdown and fund other Republican priorities, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) hopes to pack the bill with “as much stuff as we can get” to help the American people and forward President Donald Trump's agenda.

Monday, on Mobile radio's FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," State Rep. Jennifer Fidler (R-Silverhill) discussed recently passed legislation intended to protect dogs living outdoors in Alabama.

Governor Kay Ivey signed into law House Bill 95, the Alabama Post-Election Audit Act, on Monday.

Archbishop of Mobile Mark S. Rivituso responded Monday to a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump calling Pope Leo XIV weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy.

The Randolph County Commission could be negatively impacted by a recent audit by the Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts.

Douglas Mayor Corey Hill, a farmer and small business owner, released his first television ad on Monday in his campaign to become Alabama’s next Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries. 

Politicians are not angels; bureaucrats are not selfless servants; voters are not perfectly informed. Everyone, in the public square as in the marketplace, is working, consciously or not, toward some private advantage.

The Selma Police Department arrested a man after the mother of his child reported abuse to authorities.

A suspect wanted for a theft at Northern Heights Presbyterian Church was arrested after the incident was caught on camera.

The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public for information leading to the arrest of a gunman who opened fire at the Grand Bay Horse Show on Saturday.

Despite Magic City Acceptance Academy's declining enrollment, abysmal scores, and questionable record of following the state’s ban on DEI, the school now seeks approval for a long-planned expansion.

Could a group of like-minded conservative state lawmakers form their own voting bloc, similar to the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.?

There were seven shootings and four homicides in Montgomery over the weekend. 

No. 10 Auburn baseball secured its second straight conference series with a 2-1 series win over Kentucky at Plainsman Park this weekend. 

No. 8 Alabama’s home-field advantage was nowhere to be found as the Crimson Tide got swept at home by No. 22 Arkansas.

During Wednesday's episode of Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," State Rep. Mark Gidley (R-Hokes Bluff) spoke about his legislation requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in Alabama's public schools.

Rodney Walker said too many able-bodied people are choosing not to work, creating a staffing issue, particularly for undesirable, but necessary, jobs.

I follow the data. The data says the most interesting Senate primary in Alabama in a generation is just getting started.

Before departing the legislature for the final day of the 2026 legislative session, several House Democrats spoke on what they believed to be the best and worst of the year, all naming the lack of a lottery bill as a stark negative.

The City of Mobile is asking for the public’s input on a new parks district along the Mobile Bay.