Legislature
The Alabama House unanimously passed HB176 to exempt prescribed eyeglasses and contact lenses from state sales tax, sending the bill to the Senate.
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Alabama Political Reporter
- Elections
Candidate speaks after stalker guilty plea, says courage will guide campaign
Allbright wins Alabama House District 11 special election
Alabama Senate candidates pledge their support for congressional term limits
Secretary of State: Absentee ballot “harvesting is not being tolerated in Alabama”
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt endorses Rep. Rhett Marques in District 1 race
- Governor
Sen. Britt announces the 2026 Senate Youth Program application opening
Gov. Ivey appoints John Young as chairman of the Marshall County Commission
Gov. Ivey urges students to “be bold” in back-to-school video message
Gov. Ivey announces $25.9 million in Growing Alabama funds
Gov. Ivey announces second round of 2025 Rebuild Alabama infrastructure grants
- Legislature
Lawmakers officially pre-file “Child Predator Death Penalty Act” in Alabama Legislature
Rep. James Lomax appointed to House Rules Committee
Stubbs named vice chair of House County and Municipal Government Committee
Lawmakers warned of rising Alabama SNAP costs at budget hearing
State Rep. Chip Brown pre-files legislation to bolster commercial seafood industry
- Economy
Department of Workforce names Workforce Pathways Division chief
Wellborn fights foreign trade abuses to protect U.S. cabinet industry, jobs
North Alabama Area Labor Council encourages Huntsville auto workers to unionize
Gov. Ivey announces $25.9 million in Growing Alabama funds
Alabama Economic and Real Estate Report reveals increased home sales
- National
Steve Marshall urges SCOTUS to hear student gender identity case
Sen. Britt signs letter calling for ban on Chinese seafood imports
Federal judge: Montgomery state Senate district violates Voting Rights Act
Rep. Sewell highlights rising grocery prices in new social media video
Rep. Sewell to host live Telephone Town Hall on Thursday
- Education
Dolly Parton Imagination Library expands to Alabama foster kids
PARCA: Alabama high-poverty districts show gains in third-grade reading
Opinion | The answer to our public schools issues is sitting right there
Summer reading gains highlight the Literacy Act’s impact on students
Secretary of State Wes Allen delivers commencement address at Troy University
- Health
Veterans Resource Center Board talks operational plans at inaugural meeting
Alabama Department of Public Health confirms case of measles
Opinion | New blood tests that detect cancer at early stages could save countless lives
Tuberville convenes veteran mental health hearing on alternative therapies
Senate hearing in Alabama explores new therapies to combat PTSD, veteran suicide crisis
- Opinion
Opinion | Maybe the Alabama Democratic Party could try something new
Opinion | We could stop school shootings, but some are standing in the way.
Opinion | The 2026 attorney general, ag commissioner races will be good ones
Opinion | Congress abdicates, executive swells: Democracy teeters on the edge of collapse
Opinion | Hoover is attempting a new medical development with a very weird lease
Featured Opinion
ADP owes it to the people working hard to move the party forward to do the right thing and be better.
State
The state’s new sales tax exemption on menstrual and maternity products, as well as baby essentials, will take effect on September 1.
Courts
New DNA evidence implicated another man, leading a federal judge to order a new trial for the inmate after three decades on death row.
Health
Members of the Alabama Veterans Resource Center Board discussed plans to improve support programs for veterans at their inaugural meeting.
Courts
Nine men, including a former state trooper, were sentenced in a large-scale operation that transported cocaine from Mexico into Alabama.
Party politics
News
The latest grocery tax reduction—the second in three years—will make it easier for every Alabamian to make ends meet, especially with high food prices.
Legislature
Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter appointed Rep. James Lomax, a freshman lawmaker, to a powerful committee.
News
Owners will be available for one-on-one conversations with anyone interested in learning more about EVs.
Featured Opinion
Two of our major constitutional statewide offices are up for election in next year’s May 2026 GOP primary.
Featured Opinion
The Framers warned against unchecked power. Today Congress cowers, Alabama suffers and liberty erodes as executive authority grows unchecked.
Featured Opinion
Hoover officials entered into a very odd lease to kick off its massive health care development.
Health
We know early detection means everything. A multi-cancer early detection test would be a game-changer.
Legislature
The League of Women Voters of Alabama urges deleting language empowering a board to purge voter rolls by simple majority vote without due process.
Congress
The bipartisan Safe American Food Exports Act codifies USDA authority to negotiate regionalization agreements ensuring continued livestock and poultry exports during animal disease outbreaks.
Elections
Ivey set the special primary election for Tuesday, July 15, 2025.
Congress
Current law requires insurance companies to provide no-copay coverage for screenings, but that does not extend to diagnostic testing.
Elections
Seventy-one percent of Alabama Republicans say Tuberville should stay in Washington; Trump loyalty remains the defining force.
Opinion
Alabama has a process for determining residency issues. Should he run for governor, Tuberville will go through it. And it won't be kind.
Economy
APR spoke with two baristas about their experiences at the Huntsville Starbucks location and why they want to unionize.
Legislature
HB489 would permit high school athletes to profit from NIL deals under certain guidelines.
Public safety
With a rate of 213.6 shooting incidents per 100,000 residents, Alabama ranks fifth in gun violence per capita.
Municipal elections
