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By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Thursday, May 12, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) signed Senate Bill 363 banning dismemberment abortions. Alabama’s National...
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- Elections
- Governor
Gov. Ivey signs bill requiring English proficiency for truck drivers
Alabama reacts to governor sparing death row inmate Sonny Burton
Ivey commutes Burton death sentence over unequal punishment
Gov. Ivey’s summer internship program deadline is approaching
Gov. Ivey signs the Devinee Rooney and John Wesley Holt Safe Streets Act
- Legislature
Alabama 2026 Legislative Report: Week Nine
Senate passes bill expanding Public Service Commission, freezing power rate increases
Alabama Senate passes bill to rein in data center tax incentives
Alabama Senate foregoes prison oversight bill in favor of pilot program
Alabama bill aims to let professors profit from research
- Economy
Alabama Senate passes bill to rein in data center tax incentives
Bill to pause new solar developments advances to Alabama Senate for vote
Lockheed Martin to invest in Pike County production facility
Hadrian to partner with Navy on northwest Alabama defense project
Retail giant expands baby departments, adds products at Alabama stores
- National
Alabama airman Alex Klinner killed in Iraq in refueling plane crash
Reps. Sewell, Rogers introduce bill to address rural wastewater crisis
Hadrian to partner with Navy on northwest Alabama defense project
Sen. Britt celebrates former BSC campus chosen as new USCG training center
Navy to open major defense industrial facility in Alabama
- Education
Alabama bill aims to let professors profit from research
Alabama House passes $10.9 billion education budget
Lawmakers review Education Trust Fund as reserves decline
Bill to restrict discussion of contraceptives in sex ed faces pushback in public hearing
Opinion | A decade of strengthening public schools through educational choice
- Health
UAB Hospital now fifth-largest in the nation
Children’s of Alabama to host giveback night at Walk-Ons Sports Bistreux
ADPH reports downturns in healthcare-associated infection rates
Bill to eliminate out-of-pocket costs for breast cancer screenings heads to Ivey’s desk
House passes bill to allocate $43.1 million in opioid settlement funds
- Opinion
National
Three of the six airmen, including Klinner, killed in a refueling plane crash were assigned to the Birmingham-based 99th Refueling Squadron.
Featured Opinion
Republicans still control every lever of state government in Alabama. The question is whether they can continue governing together.
The Voice of Alabama Politics
Host Bill Britt and panelists Susan Britt and Josh Moon examined several of Alabama’s most pressing political fights.
Opinion
State leaders moved to expand the Public Service Commission after out-of-state groups influenced recent elections in neighboring Georgia.
Opinion
Why are lawmakers spending so much time targeting transgender people when our state faces real challenges?
Legislature
Legislature
State leaders launched a one-year pilot program for the Examiners of Public Accounts to inspect facilities and report on prison conditions.
News
Montgomery student Carson French earned national honors in C-SPAN’s StudentCam competition for a documentary exploring the Declaration of Independence and prison equality.
News
Target reduced prices on more than 3,000 spring items, ranging from apparel to home goods, as shoppers prepared for warmer weather.
Education
Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton introduced legislation to update ethics laws he said stifle innovation and cause Alabama to lose researchers to other states.
Education
State representatives approved a historic $10.9 billion spending plan that funded teacher pay raises and expanded technical education investments across Alabama.
Opinion
Everything on earth will rust or rot, and that’s what will happen to most of the stuff you covet today.
Opinion
A longtime Republican leader warns that party infighting mirrors the fragmentation that ended the Alabama Democratic Party’s decades of political dominance.
Education
I believe that expanding parental choice has played a significant role in Alabama’s comeback story.
Featured Opinion
When one political party becomes too powerful, the first inclination is to protect that power. It always leads to failure.
Opinion
By Lieutenant Governor Kay Ivey When I struck the gavel for the Senate to adjourn Sine Die at midnight on Wednesday, May 4, 2016,...
Opinion
By Minority Leader Rep. Craig Ford State leaders in Montgomery have become Robin Hoods—just not the kind that everyone remembers hearing about as a...
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By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Thursday, May 12, a Federal District Judge ruled in House v. Burwell, that the Obama administration unlawfully funded...
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By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Wednesday, May 11, US Representative Martha Roby released a statement saying that the House is expected to...
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By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Thursday, May 12, the Alabama Constitution Party issued a statement pledging their full support of Chief Justice Roy...
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By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—The State can now add another failure, to the growing number of times the STAARS accounting software has...
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By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Wednesday, May 11, the Alabama Republican Assembly responded to the charges of judicial ethics violations made by the...
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By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Tuesday, May 10, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed legislation that would add Kratom to the banned substances list....
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By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Are we alone in the universe? Nobody knows the answer to that but there are billions of stars...