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Alabama Political Reporter
- Elections
Will Boyd wins cannabis group endorsement, unveils plan to reverse hemp ban
Alabama Republican Party sets qualifying dates for 2026 primary election
Secretary of state reminds Alabamians of absentee voting deadlines
Phillip Pettus announces re-election campaign for Alabama House of Representatives
Criminal Appeals Judge Beth Kellum announces re-election campaign
- Governor
Gov. Ivey announces $25.9 million in Growing Alabama funds
Gov. Ivey announces second round of 2025 Rebuild Alabama infrastructure grants
Gov. Ivey announces Vaquito, the work zone safety dog, as honorary ALEA trooper
Bo Offord to lead Alabama Medicaid as Stephanie Azar moves to SEIB
Gov. Ivey deploys search and rescue team to Texas
- Legislature
Alabama lawmakers renew push for death penalty in child rape cases
House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels is recovering—and searching for answers
Sen. Sam Givhan endorses execution in child sex abuse cases, firing squads
Bill limiting youthful offender status for murder refiled for 2026 session
State lawmakers will try again to require national anthem weekly in public schools
- Economy
Gov. Ivey announces $25.9 million in Growing Alabama funds
Alabama Economic and Real Estate Report reveals increased home sales
Alabama climbs to 19th in CNBC business rankings, workforce sees big gains
Ivey celebrates “Made in the USA” Day with praise for Alabama manufacturers
NFIB: 36 percent of small businesses report unfilled jobs in June survey
- National
Supreme Court prepares to consider constitutionality of key Voting Rights Act provision
Rep. Sewell announces $3M for Black Belt water infrastructure
Sen. Tuberville proposes bill to ban students from select countries from studying in US
GUMBO leads Baldwin County mayors to D.C. for talks with Britt, Tuberville
U.S. Senate commemorates 65th anniversary of Marshall Space Flight Center
- Education
Secretary of State Wes Allen delivers commencement address at Troy University
Alabama AG backs South Carolina in race, sex education lawsuit
Montgomery teacher heads to D.C. for C-SPAN’s Educators’ Conference
Alabama federal lawmakers respond to partial release of frozen education funds
APLS seeks to deem books promoting “gender ideology” as inappropriate for kids
- Health
Alabama among top states for attracting out-of-state physicians through interstate compact
Bill reintroduced to enhance religious exemptions for vaccinations, mask-use
Prefiled bill would overhaul Alabama’s new hemp regulation law
Medicaid cuts could exacerbate healthcare disparities in Alabama’s Black Belt
The Renewal Project announces statewide launch
- Opinion
Featured Opinion
If greatness means silencing truth, punishing science, and rewriting history to comfort the powerful, then what they seek isn’t greatness. It’s destruction.
Courts
A federal judge ruled the U.S. government lacked sufficient evidence that a kitchen manager at El Patron employed illegal immigrants.
Featured Opinion
The Alabama Republican Party is closing ranks, shrinking the bubble, and using Kay Ivey as a villain. It will end badly.
Courts
The Supreme Court’s request for briefs on majority-minority districts’ constitutionality indicates a forthcoming ruling could upend the Voting Rights Act.
State
Skaggs previously served as the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources's general counsel.
News
The Georgia-based PAC was charged with failing both to register as an independent committee and to report dozens of expenditures.
Legislature
The legislation will be reintroduced during the 2026 Legislative Session.
Legislature
After a surprise diagnosis led to a kidney transplant, Anthony Daniels and his doctors are trying to get to the bottom of what happened...
Featured Opinion
History warns us that republics crumble when ambition outpaces virtue. But hope remains in those who choose service over self.
Opinion
When you vaccinate, you protect your grandmother with asthma, the coworker in chemotherapy and the preemie next door who is still too small for...
Opinion
Protecting Alabama’s energy security must remain top priority. The Senate hearing was a national warning.
Opinion
We are asking President Trump to save America’s domestic cabinet industry and impose a 100 percent targeted tariff rate on all foreign cabinet imports.
National
The House voted 240 to 190 to pass H.R. 8 to require background checks for anyone wishing to purchase a firearm. Rep. Terri A....
Legislature
A bill to limit the terms of Alabama legislators has been pre-filed and, if passed, would start with 2022 elections. State Rep. David Wheeler,...
National
Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, introduced legislation Tuesday to help address what they called “the most egregious forms of recent...
Legislature
State Rep. David Wheeler, R-Vestavia Hills, announced that he has pre-filed a bill to enact term limits for members of the State House of...
Environment
Black Warrior Riverkeeper filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Feb. 27, 2019, in an effort to ensure the protection Black Warrior...
Environment
It is spring in Alabama, and that means triggerfish season opens. State waters will be open to the harvest of gray triggerfish at 12:01...
Economy
Alabama Sen. Doug Jones is partnering with Virginia Sen. Mark Warner to introduce a bill that would make up for federal funding lost to...
Economy
On County Road 17 in rural Maplesville, Gov. Kay Ivey earlier today announced her bold new Rebuild Alabama Infrastructure Plan. “By increasing our investment...
Education
Majority-white public schools received about $23 billion more in funding than majority-nonwhite schools in 2016, according to a report from the nonprofit group EdBuild....
