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Attorney General Steve Marshall on Monday joined a coalition of 50 attorneys general announcing a $149,673,750 settlement with Mercedes-Benz USA and Mercedes-Benz Group AG for violating state laws prohibiting unfair or deceptive trade practices by marketing, selling, and leasing vehicles equipped with illegal and undisclosed emissions defeat devices designed to circumvent emissions standards. 

When Johnnie Volovecky started his Baldwin County business in 1997, things took off. Volovecky Masonry was able to perform high-quality residential and light commercial jobs for nearly three decades.

This Christmas, gaze into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere in the assurance of things hoped for and unseen – that Christ Jesus is the only Star that could ever set men free!

On Monday morning's episode of WVNN's "The Dale Jackson Show," State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) spoke about a recent personal social media post criticizing the current Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

The Calera Police Department is asking the public to come forward with information leading to Julie “Dani” Ray, who disappeared on Christmas Day in 2015.

Monday, Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a 21-state coalition of attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in support of Florida’s law, that prohibits books describing sex acts from K-12 public-school classrooms and libraries.

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced oyster harvesting season ends at 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Community members are coming together to help the owners of Mount Vernon Outdoors after a fire destroyed the business.

Governor Kay Ivey appointed former Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson to the Alabama State Port Authority.

Cathedral Church of the Advent live-streamed the funeral service for Ella Cook, the 19-year-old Mountain Brook woman who was killed in the Brown University shooting on December 13.

Members of the Alabama Supreme Court recently kept a temporary restraining order in place on a new vape law in a 4-3 decision.

Montgomery Fire Rescue announced the safe surrender of a newborn baby boy through the Safe Haven Baby Box located at Fire Station 10 on Monday. 

Over 100 girls from around the state descended on the state capitol last week for the Third Annual "Girl's Day at the Capitol," sponsored by State Rep. Susan DuBose (R-Hoover) and cosponsored by Miss Alabama’s Teen Addison Shoemaker.

The Alabama Farmers Federation has endorsed Madison resident and small business owner Aaron Thomas for Alabama House District 10.

The initial court appearance for a woman arrested during a “No Kings” protest in Fairhope has been rescheduled to March.

The former executive director of North Alabama's Singing River Trail has been indicted on several child pornography charges.

New Robertsdale Mayor Ruthie Campbell served three terms on the city council before becoming mayor, so she was familiar with the city’s challenges and had a basic understanding of how to manage it. Now that she’s in that position, she said she is thankful to have inherited a well-oiled machine.

One suspects that special interests – the defenders of CON laws, the education establishment, the AHSAA – will prove less accommodating than Kris Kringle. But then, serious policy reform was never supposed to be easy. It requires not the magic of Christmas morning, but the harder work of persuasion, legislation, and sustained political will. 

Trussville Police arrested Kanen Isaac Harper, 24, of Moody, in the shooting death of Christian Scott White early Saturday.

Over the weekend, State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) took to social media with a post demonstrating the shortcomings of the current Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

A newly formed nonprofit called Alabama Patients First began running ads decrying “Blue Cross BULLS*!T” on Friday.

U.S. Senate candidate Morgan Murphy’s campaign announced recently he was the first Republican candidate to receive donations from all 50 states. 

No. 16 Alabama added another victory on Sunday afternoon, defeating former assistant coach Antoine Pettway 92-81 in the Rocket City Classic in Huntsville.

Montgomery Fire is investigating a fatal fire that claimed the life of a child on Sunday morning.

If the White House wants to claim the mantle of the most pro-life administration in history, it must be willing to act like it. That means confronting mifepristone directly, not regulating around it.

Miss Auburn University 2026 is a drum-playing, pageant-participating, politically-engaged beauty queen. But there is more to Ashlyn Powers than what you see on the stage.

With the goal of transforming Alabama's healthcare delivery system across the state, Gov. Kay Ivey issued an executive order on Thursday forming the Rural Health Transformation Advisory Group.