Alabama Government News

The Alabama Legislature agreed on its last meeting day to sell bonds to borrow $30 million to repair tornado-damaged schools.

A bill to change and clarify Alabama's gun laws is headed to the governor. The House this afternoon passed the massive and much re-worked Republican bill that makes transporting a This item is available in full to subscribers.

The fight over the Alabama Accountability Act has been all over the map, with those for it sending mixed signals about their stance, with supporters disagreeing on how to improve it and with the only ones consistent on their views being those opposed to it.

The Alabama Legislature could use its last meeting day to authorize the borrowing of $280 million through state bond issues.

State Sen. Cam Ward is trying. Really. While it may not look like he did much this year where opening Alabama's election ballot is concerned, he did introduce his bill.

Senator to Bentley: "I will not sit by and passively allow... children being subjected to a less than stellar education" BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Gov.

Before the civil rights movement Alabama blacks faced discrimination on their way to getting law degrees and licenses to practice I and many others stand on the shoulders of giants who had to do those extraordinary things," - Anthony Joseph incoming Alabama State Bar president.

The U.S. House of Representatives will consider a repeal of President Obama's costly and burdensome health care law, the Affordable Care Act, today.

All children deserve a quality education, no matter where they're from and no matter how much money their parents make.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Sen. Del Marsh, leader of the state Senate and the architect of the Alabama Accountability Act, said this afternoon he will not go along with delaying implementation of a key part of the school choice law requested by Gov.

The architect of Alabama's new private school tax credits intends to block the governor's proposal to delay the tax breaks for two years.

Georgia legislators thwarted Wednesday an attempt by Alabama and Florida to limit how much water metro Atlanta and North Georgia can take from federal reservoirs.

Frank McDaniel is the leader of a about a dozen business people who formed an investment group called Big Spring Lake, LLC.

"The people of the state do believe that public money should go to public education, and I believe that," Bentley said.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Another 15 Alabamians have been found guilty of defrauding the state's unemployment insurance benefits program and must pay restitution of more than $47,000 combined, according to the Department of Labor.

Our democratic president has done absolutely nothing POSITIVE since taking office.

Raceway manager Sen Hudson isn't happy about the pains of progress. The new gas station at the corner of Alabama 20 and Beltline Road has been open a few weeks.

National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Regional Office Director Roy Crabtree said two requests from the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council to rescind federal red snapper rules would have crated unfair and inequitable management.

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA Wilson Blaylock, District Attorney for the 32nd Judicial Circuit, Cullman County, Alabama; and Joseph Borg, Director of the Alabama Securities Commission announced that on May 13, 2013, James Leonard Craft of Century, Florida was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Gregory A. Nicholas to a 10-year sentence, split to serve three ... (more)

A man first accused of kidnapping his common law wife's daughter will undergo a psychiatric evaluation to see if he is competent to stand trial.