Alabama Government News

The sweater vest is back. OK, it never really went away. But it took Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum to remind us that the comfy sleeveless sweater has always had a place in our closets.

Editor's note: With the nation's first African-American president poised to preside over the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this fall, the Observer will look back each Sunday this month at trailblazing black political figures of the region's past.

In flatly rejecting Gov. Robert Bentley's plan to take classroom money to prop up other state agencies, Republican leaders in the Legislature have assumed a lot of responsibility for dealing with a massive revenue loss for the state's General Fund.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama _ Election to the vast majority of government offices in the U.S. is a two-step process.

The Alabama Board of Education will discuss two-year college Chancellor Freida Hill's future at an upcoming meeting after an evaluation showed the board is sharply divided over her performance.

Cold and allergy medicines containing pseudoephedrine are used to make methamphetamine.

For some time, we have known the Fiscal Year 2013 state budgets would be the most difficult in recent memory.

All elected officials, and those who help finance elections in the expectation that certain promises will be kept - and everyone who cares about the rule of law -should hope the Supreme Court agrees to hear Don Siegelman's appeal of his conviction.

Work to repair a slide under Interstate 65 near the 330 mile marker in Morgan County will cause the closure of a six mile stretch of the northbound lanes.

The Business Council of Alabama is asking the Alabama Legislature to move the two-year college system out from under the authority of the state school board and place it under the supervision of an appointed board.

A string of burglaries in Ozark prompts a six month man hunt. Now, Police say they have someone in custody for stealing over 100 thousand dollars worth in jewelry.

The Alabama Department of Public Health says the cases are more numerous and more severe than normal in Alabama.

You could be one of thousands of people in Alabama whose social security number or other personal information is now in the hands of hackers.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke Illegal aliens have run roughshod over the system in Alabama and the nation.

Mississippi state Rep. Steve Holland says he wasn't actually trying to re-name the Gulf of Mexico with the bill he introduced in the Legislature.

Soon, Alabamians receiving unemployment compensation from a debit card will be getting a new one in the mail.

Kara Hetrick said she was on her way to work one morning recently when she saw a "Stars Fell on Alabama" license plate on the car in front of her.

The developers of the unfinished 32-story Phoenix West II told the City Council on Tuesday they don't have the money to build a pedestrian bridge over Perdido Beach Boulevard or pay for other amenities promised six years ago in better economic times.

Governor Robert Bentley on Thursday released the following statement regarding House approval of three of the Governor's jobs bills: "I am pleased that House members have given these bills the priority and attention they deserve.

A group of Republican lawmakers ended the first week of the Alabama legislature by announcing they have introduced bills to lower legislative pay.