The 2026 election season has begun. It is our big election year in Alabama politics. All our Constitutional offices, ...

The “presumptive eligibility” legislation states that Medicaid will pay for a pregnant woman’s outpatient medical care for up ...

Florida is set to execute death row inmate Michael Tanzi on Tuesday for the murder of a beloved Miami Herald employee who was ...

Even though he has not experienced major trauma, Kolven Hoey’s learning about the tragedies that befell Lisa McNair and Sarah Collins Rudolph felt like a double sucker punch to the emotional gut. “I ...

Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday appointed Montgomery County District Court Judge Tiffany McCord to fill the position of 15th ...

The Alabama House of Representatives has advanced legislation that would ban students from using cellphones in K-12 public schools. Representatives voted 79-15 for the bill on Thursday. The bill now ...

Surrounded by working parents, teachers and public servants from across the state, Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed into ...

Starting July 1, eligible state employees including teachers will be able to give birth or begin their lives as parents ...

Governor Kay Ivey signed a paid parental leave bill into law on Wednesday. “In Alabama, we are committed to strengthening ...

Later before the Senate, state Sen. Rodger Smitherman, a Birmingham Democrat, said he believes some of the cuts to previous ...

Alabama Arise Executive Director Robyn Hyden said we are now leading the south in paid parental leave for state employees, adding several other states have either less time off or lack the coverage ...

Alabama is the 39th state to offer government employees a form of paid parental leave, according to the nonprofit A Better ...