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The City of Geneva will receive a $300,000 block grant to repair the downtown area damaged by a January 25 tornado.

The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office arrested a mother in connection with the death of her 17-month-old son.

Alabama appealed a Tuesday ruling by a federal court forcing Alabama to use a congressional map that will likely lead to the election of two Democrats in 2026.

Following a federal appeals court's blocking of a 6-1 Republican congressional map passed by Alabama legislators in 2023, Speaker of the House Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) issued strong criticism of the verdict, calling it a "politically motivated attempt to weaponize the judicial system."

A ruling by a federal court on Tuesday forcing Alabama to use a more Democrat-friendly congressional map for the 2026 election was “unsurprising,” according to Gov. Kay Ivey.

On Tuesday, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, who is one of the leading candidates for the state’s next lieutenant governor, received the endorsement of former Alabama Crimson Tide football coach Gene Stallings.

Pamela Casey, the Republican candidate for attorney general who was defeated last week in the Republican primary, has endorsed her former opponent, former Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell, in the upcoming runoff election.

Longtime Perry County District 1 Commissioner Albert Turner Jr. narrowly lost re-election by the slimmest of margins on Tuesday.

We cannot deny the economic realities of a strong defense base, especially here in Alabama.

A three-judge panel of federal judges on Tuesday granted a motion by left-wing activist groups to block the use of a 6-1 Republican congressional map passed by lawmakers in 2023. 

Auburn's All-American golfer Jackson Koivun earned the 2026 Ben Hogan Award on Monday evening for the second time in his career.

What a shame that even shared good faith can be reduced to a profane weapon in the political game! Comparison in a political contest is always a double-edged sword, where too much held in common – even a shared faith – sows division and discord.

Kela Stanford, 55, the woman accused in a hot car death of a child in the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) last summer, is set for a pretrial hearing in August.

Over 1,000 signatures have been collected in opposition to a proposed Lowndes County data center,  with residents intent on raising concerns about what could be the largest industrial project in the county’s history at an upcoming county commission meeting  

Alabama Department of Workforce Secretary Greg Reed announced on Friday that the state’s April preliminary, seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is 2.8%, up from March’s rate of 2.7%, and below April 2025’s rate of 2.9%.

On the heels of securing seven of 11 reelections for his caucus incumbents in last week's Republican primary elections, House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) told Alabama Public Television's "Capitol Journal" that some "restrictions" could be in order.

The wife of Lee County Sheriff-elect Cam Hunt was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge, according to Opelika Police.

The United States went to great lengths and immense cost to bring our heroes home, yet we are also a nation whose military cemeteries remain a "silent sentinel" in foreign lands: honored, respected, and never forgotten.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), in a recent speech on the Senate floor, blocked Democratic efforts to deny the use of federal funds to compensate anyone prosecuted for their involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 (J6) riots at the U.S. Capitol.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) is investigating a single-vessel crash on Lake Demopolis.

Shortly after graduating from Miles College, Hannah Smith went on a cruise to the Bahamas on May 11, 2025. She went to celebrate her graduation but returned home as a double amputee.

An early U.S. Senate primary runoff poll is showing favorable results for Jared Hudson, who is competing against U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) for the Republican nomination in November's general election.

After a 39-18 campaign against the nation's toughest schedule, Auburn baseball earned the No. 4 national seed and will host its fourth NCAA Regional in the last five seasons.

In just the third year under head coach Rob Vaughn, Alabama baseball will host a regional in the NCAA Tournament.

And there it is, the thing about raising children that nobody warns you about sufficiently: the milestones that matter most arrive without fanfare, tucked inside ordinary afternoons.

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon weighed in on the recommendation of former University of Alabama President Stuart Bell to take the helm of the University of Florida starting a chain reaction of responses from U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and the university itself.

An attorney for the Dothan City Schools system explained why a Jerry Lee Faine Elementary math teacher was not immediately fired after alleged inappropriate sexual conduct with a student that led to numerous criminal charges.