MONTGOMERY — A proposal to create a new, sustainable funding mechanism for a state branding campaign will be presented to a handful of state lawmakers ahead of the 2025 legislative session, Alabama Commerce Secretary Ellen McNair said.
MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles ended fiscal year 2024 with an average parole grant rate of 20%, its highest rate since 2019 after four consecutive years of declining rates.
MONTGOMERY —The tax cut on Alabamians’ overtime wages that went into effect in January and officials thought would cost the state about $34 million this year is actually worth an estimated $230.7 million through September, according to a recent report by the Alabama Department of Revenue.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama Senate Republicans are in a rare and potentially contentious situation: A mid-term leadership contest between two popular members, Sens. Garlan Gudger of Cullman and Steve Livingston of Scottsboro.
MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Re-Entry Commission discussed Tuesday the underreporting of crime data from local municipalities, and its potential impact on reducing recidivism.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama schools improved their overall grade to 85 points out of 100 available on both state and federal report cards for the 2023-24 school year, according to preliminary data presented to state board of education members during their work session on Thursday.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama lawmakers got a first look at what a new K-12 school funding formula could look like during a joint legislative task force meeting on Tuesday.
MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Generative Artificial Intelligence Task Force has outlined some of its recommendations in a final report to Gov. Kay Ivey, due on her desk by Nov. 30.
MONTGOMERY — State tax revenues in the Education Trust Fund fell by $46.8 million, 10.12%, in October, the first month of fiscal 2025, when compared to a year prior.
MONTGOMERY — Leaders of the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles called on lawmakers to consider funding the expansion of an inmate rehabilitation program, a program that, among its around 300 graduates, has so far eliminated recidivism.
MONTGOMERY — Gov. Kay Ivey welcomed well over 100 attendees to the Alabama State Capitol this week to induct three new members to the Alabama Academy of Honor.
MONTGOMERY (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday defended her decision to fire the state veterans commissioner as what she called a last resort after the state board refused her request to do so.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama Sen. Chris Elliot, R-Josephine, filed a bill recently he hopes will streamline the process for businesses, particularly small businesses, to receive licenses and permits.
MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Board of Nursing is on the cusp of launching a new process for certifying nursing support technicians, a process designed to both eliminate redundancies and ease workloads for nurses, of which there remains a growing shortage.
MONTGOMERY — For well over an hour, Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole Chair Leigh Gwathney was grilled by state lawmakers over the board’s low rate of following its own parole guidelines, as well as its failure to update those guidelines as required by law.
MONTGOMERY — Some Alabama lawmakers want the Alabama Attorney General to investigate whether the recently-documented mismanagement of a state occupational board may have included illegal activity.
MONTGOMERY (AP) — Alabama's secretary of state has sent a letter to thousands of residents who were incorrectly made “inactive†on voter rolls to let them know they are indeed eligible to vote in the November elections.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama lawmakers are getting a 4.25% raise next year, bringing their annual salaries to $62,212, according to the Alabama State Personnel Department.
MONTGOMERY (AP) — A judge on Tuesday appointed a mediator in the long-running dispute over who gets licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana in Alabama.
MONTGOMERY — Gov. Kay Ivey removed Kent Davis as the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs Tuesday afternoon.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama’s proposed plan for broadband expansion using $1.4 billion in federal funds received approval Thursday from the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration, kicking off a new phase of the state’s broadband expansion efforts.
MONTGOMERY — Gov. Kay Ivey will ask the Alabama Board of Veterans Affairs to immediately remove Kent Davis as commissioner of the state agency on Tuesday.
MONTGOMERY — In the latest development in the ongoing controversy surrounding Alabama Veterans Affairs Commissioner Kent Davis, Scott Gedling, vice chair of the State Board of Veterans Affairs, said Davis must “step aside†for the good of the agency, and claimed the commissioner “manipulated…
MONTGOMERY — Alabama Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison, D-Birmingham, recently filed a bill to establish a new funding mechanism to fund public transportation in the state, a measure that she says is necessary to improve the state’s low labor participation rate.
MONTGOMERY — An Alabama lawmaker is proposing a change to the state constitution to clarify that paper raffles and bingo for charitable purposes are legal.
MONTGOMERY — A nurse says she was hired at the Morgan County Jail but lost the job a few days after speaking critically last month about the Alabama Board of Nursing’s voluntary substance abuse program.
MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Board of Education voted 7-to-2 on Thursday to raise the score requirement on the state’s third grade reading test — the first hurdle determining whether the student moves to fourth grade — for the current school year and beyond.
MONTGOMERY — Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, reintroduced a bill to reform Alabama’s cash bail system, which he says has benefitted the bail bondsman industry at the expense of “judges, prosecutors, defendants and the accused.â€
MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Security Regulatory Board approved an emergency contract request Tuesday after Smith Warren Management, which had long managed the board’s administrative services, missed a key deadline to submit a request for its contract with the board to be renewed.
MONTGOMERY — Republican Congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson recently pledged to push for legislation requiring that the federal government notify state and local officials when relocating migrants to communities.
MONTGOMERY — House Rep. Matt Simpson, R-Daphne, is proposing the death penalty as a possible punishment for those convicted of raping children younger than age 6.
MONTGOMERY — The state and plaintiffs are preparing for a Nov. 12 federal trial over some state Senate districts drawn by the Legislature in 2021.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama’s parole grant rate has continued to climb according to the Bureau of Pardons and Paroles’ latest monthly report, though is unlikely to ever eclipse the state’s peak parole grant rate of 55% without major reforms to state law, Director Cam Ward said recently.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama has a new long-term economic strategy, Gov. Kay Ivey and other state industry leaders have announced.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama state agencies saw several of their contracts held Thursday by the Contract Review Committee as lawmakers have become increasingly wary of non-competitive contracts that don’t go through the standard request for proposal process.
MONTGOMERY — The office of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has refuted claims by the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners Board that several separation and non-disclosure agreements it entered into with former employees totaling $288,000 were approved by the AG's office.
MONTGOMERY — Gov. Kay Ivey is appointing Marty Redden to oversee the Alabama Department of Labor.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama’s Voluntary Disciplinary Alternative Program (VDAP), a voluntary program for nurses suffering with substance abuse and addiction, came under fire recently from past participants who called it “dehumanizing†and overly expensive.
MONTGOMERY — Several Alabama state legislators, fresh off a recent trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, say they’re working on legislation or a possible package of anti-illegal immigration bills for the 2025 session.
WINFIELD (AP) — An Alabama lawmaker was arrested on a domestic violence charge after his wife accused him of threatening to beat her.
MONTGOMERY — Nearly $42 million in federal funding will support new broadband expansion projects in 23 counties, Gov. Kay Ivey’s office said.
MONTGOMERY — Gov. Kay Ivey and the Alabama Legislature should for the third year in a row be able to craft supplemental spending bills in 2025, separate from the regular budget bills.
MONTGOMERY — An Alabama senator is proposing one-time bonuses of $3,000 for public high school teachers who earn a new history and civics endorsement.
MONTGOMERY — Auburn University basketball great, Olympic gold medal winner and former NBA MVP Charles Barkley has partnered with the Alabama Community College System for a new marketing campaign, ACCS staff touted this week.
MONTGOMERY — The Alabama State Board of Education on Thursday discussed a proposed fiscal year 2026 $6.4 billion budget request — about a $472 million increase — with a large focus on school safety.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama Veterans Affairs Commissioner Kent Davis will resign his post at the end of the year after a "respectful, frank, and informative" meeting with Gov. Kay Ivey Monday, her office said.
MONTGOMERY — State Sen. Billy Beasley, D-Clayton, is accusing the company contracted to provide health services for state inmates of not paying tens of thousands of dollars worth of invoices to a local first responder.
MONTGOMERY — A series of recently filed bills in the Alabama Legislature demonstrate the ongoing partisan split among lawmakers when it comes to election reform, with Republican lawmakers backing efforts to strengthen election integrity, and Democratic lawmakers backing voter accessibility.
MONTGOMERY — Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday called for the resignation of Kent Davis, the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs, and removed a member of the board, John Kilpatrick who oversees the department.
MONTGOMERY — The mayor of Alabama’s state capital signed a local ordinance into law on Friday requiring anyone carrying a concealed firearm to also carry a photo ID, saying Republican lawmakers' decision to toss permit requirements for concealed guns had hindered police officers' abilities t…
MONTGOMERY — Alabama is poised to end this fiscal year with a decline in sales tax revenue, the first time that's happened in 15 years.
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