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The Alabama Farmers Federation praised the $12 billion in aid for farmers announced by President Donald Trump on Monday.

Monday the City of Hoover joined a growing coalition of Alabama cities in a federal lawsuit challenging the Alabama Department of Revenue’s administration of the Simplified Sellers Use Tax (SSUT).

A court-appointed special master team billed the court for $240,326 in fees last week for their work in a State Senate redistricting lawsuit against the state of Alabama.

After years of good-faith efforts to ensure Mobile gets a portion of sales tax generated from online sales, the city announced it is joining in a lawsuit against the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Revenue.

Monday night, the Homewood City Council voted to appoint the former long-time Mountain Brook City Manager, Sam Gaston, as the Special Assistant to the City Manager.

Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft said there will not be a Hangout Music Festival or Sand in My Boots Festival in 2026, but planning is already underway for a 2027 festival.

Auburn head football coach Alex Golesh believes he retained 'one of the best football minds in the countryhttps://1819news.com/admin/entries/news/290223-auburn-head-coach-alex-golesh-dj-was-the-defensive-coordinator-i-wanted-to-hire#tab01-article-content' in defensive coordinator DJ Durkin.

Alabama made this year's College Football Playoff after getting trounced in the SEC Championship Game this weekend, and former Notre Dame star quarterback Joe Theismann is wondering how the committee got things "so wrong."

Georgia Southern University and Appalachian State University will meet in the 19th JLab Birmingham Bowl on December 29. 

Mobile County Commissioner Randall Dueitt expressed concern Monday after he said the City of Mobile has not paid rent for its space in Government Plaza in three months.

On Monday afternoon, the Decatur Police Department announced the arrest of two illegal aliens and five others as part of an online child exploitation sting.

The FBI has announced BLM activists Lillian Jayne Colburn and Mercutio Terrell Southall, both of Birmingham, are facing two federal charges of arson and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

Gabrielle Gunter, the now-former editor of Alice Magazine, the University of Alabama publication for women, continued her tour to feed the leftwing outrage machine this weekend.

In a post from the White House's official Rapid Response account, the Trump administration thanked Governor Kay Ivey for leading Alabama's efforts to make the state's roadways safer by removing and detaining illegal aliens operating as unlicensed truckers.

What remains of Christmas past is this: the feeling of those weeks, compressed now into something both smaller and larger than they were. How the waiting itself became the thing we waited for. How we rushed toward events that we also wanted never to arrive, because arrival meant ending, and ending meant the long, ordinary months that followed.

A talented group of middle schoolers from the Birmingham area recently formed a band and has big plans to rock and roll their way into careers in music.

Read Freely Alabama and several national pro-LGBT groups joined together in opposition to the Alabama Public Library Service's recent change to the administrative code.

The Islamic Academy of Alabama has formally withdrawn its rezoning application to the City of Hoover. While the Planning and Zoning Board voted last week to recommend that the Hoover City Council deny the application, ultimately, it would have been up to the council at their January 2026 meeting. 

Members of the Montgomery City Council will vote on Monday afternoon on whether to proceed on a purchase of the old Montgomery Advertiser buildings.

Notre Dame fans complained on Sunday about not being included in the College Football Playoffs.

No. 12 Alabama cruised past UTSA, leading from start to finish, with a 97-55 victory.

After a 10-year-long journey, the founder and CEO of Blanket Fort Hope, Alexa James, is now seeing a vision and calling come to fruition: providing a safe haven and restoration to victims of child sex trafficking.

The Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts released its audit looking into the Birmingham Water Works. The agency looked at records from May 1, 2023, to May 31, 2025. It identified four findings that support the legislative restructuring of the board into a regional board.

Earlier this week, U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Huntsville) took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to highlight Republican accomplishments at the 11-month mark of the White House and Capitol Hill under GOP leadership.

From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success.

The hopes for Alabama to make the playoffs were left in the hands of the selection committee after getting a third loss handed to them by Georgia in the SEC Championship Game.

Any candidate who openly violates the Constitution or tries to circumvent it should not only be barred from running but, if already in office, must be impeached immediately. The law must act swiftly to remove leaders who threaten the document that secures our liberties.