Alabama Government News

As Alabama continues experiencing widespread influenza, the Alabama Department of Public Health is expanding the target group of individuals eligible for novel H1N1 influenza vaccination.

Gov. Bob Riley today declared an official state of emergency in Alabama due to the imminent threat posed by Tropical Storm Ida.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Robert Bentley is campaigning to increase health insurance access and affordability in Alabama while countering federal mandates he objects to philosophically and politically.

The Internal Revenue Service is trying to deliver $1.85 million to Alabamians that it can't locate.

A group of scientists from conservative Brigham Young University has criticized state lawmakers over their recent handling of the climate change issue.

Just days before a new Alabama law was to take effect requiring restaurants to tell customers if the catfish they serve is imported, state officials announced imported catfish and basa products from five foreign countries tested positive for antibiotics banned in the United States.

Korean automaker Kia is building the Sorento SUV at its new factory in Georgia, which has brought more than 3,600 supplier jobs to Alabama.

The board that oversees Alabama's prepaid college tuition plan is switching from politicians to non-politicians to try to negotiate a solution to the program's $346 million deficit.

A national study released Wednesday showed Alabama makes families living in poverty pay higher income taxes than any other state.

Published: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 5:15 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 5:15 p.m. A new study from the U.S. Census Bureau shows Alabama residents and companies paid less in state and local taxes than their counterparts in any other state.

The Internal Revenue Service says more than 72 percent of Alabama's taxpayers filed their federal tax returns electronically during 2009.

Road improvements along the Alabama 14 corridor are much needed and long overdue, according to local and state lawmakers and transportation officials.

Alabama residents and companies paid less in taxes than people and businesses in any other state in the 2007 fiscal year, based on total state and local taxes paid per resident.

H1N1 is still going around, but Alabamaa s top health official is hopeful the amount of reported cases will start to go down.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 2:59 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 2:59 p.m. The Anniston Star on education cuts: At the state Board of Education's monthly work session last week, Superintendent Joe Morton laid out a five-point "plan of survival" for Alabama's K-12 schools.

More than 20 percent of Alabama's court system employees might have to be laid off and jury trials postponed if its budget is cut as deeply as some have projected, the state's chief justice said.

A legislative oversight committee has gone to court to stop a $13 million no-bid computer contract between Gov.

A Morgan County grand jury has indicted a man in a 1994 rape. The suspect, Kenneth Jackson, is currently serving time in the Alabama Department of Corrections for three rape convictions.

By William J. Canary and L. Ralph Stacy If you owned a business and had the opportunity to invest in a product with a proven ability to increase your sales, establish a foundation for future growth and bear dividends for decades, would you leap at the investment? Most people we pose that question to don't hesitate to answer yes.

By Thomas P. Davis 'Understaffed, poorly housed, bibliographically inadequate and isolated from modern library computerization,' summarized a report made to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education 25 years ago to describe Alabama's academic libraries.