Country Music Superstar Garth Brooks joined David Lamb on Alabama News Rising to discuss his upcoming concert in Birmingham on June 4th. The concert will be the first time Brooks has returned to Alabama…
Jefferson county schools announced that they will no longer allow broadcast public prayer before high school football games. The Freedom From Religion Foundation received multiple complaints on this matter last year. Local…
Alabama lawmakers have approved sweeping legislation outlawing transgender youth's access to gender-affirming medications.
Panama City Beach police say two men from our area have been arrested on charges of inciting or encouraging a riot.
People receiving unemployment benefits in Alabama could soon face a new requirement to contact three employers each week about a potential job.
Alabama News Network spoke to the Montgomery County EMA about what went wrong to cause people to be awakened to a tornado siren at 3AM Wednesday.
The Alabama Department of Transportation and states across the nation are joining forces to ask drivers to slow down and eliminate distractions in work zones in recognition of National Work Zone Awareness Week on…
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) says he will vote "no" on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Alabama lawmakers have approved the largest teacher pay raise in a generation.
The Montgomery County school board says it will name the next superintendent of Montgomery Public Schools on Friday.
Alabama lawmakers have advanced legislation to alter the name of Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge to honor those beaten as they marched for civil rights in 1965.
Alabama lawmakers have voted to postpone a requirement to hold back third graders who don’t meet reading benchmarks.
Alabama lawmakers have advanced legislation that would bar transgender students from using school bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their current gender identity.
Alabama lawmakers have advanced legislation to ban a list of “divisive concepts” from being taught in K-12 classrooms and state worker training.
Severe storms on Tuesday took down trees and power lines throughout the area. The cleanup will be starting immediately in Elmore County.
Gov. Kay Ivey has signed the Alabama Numeracy Act into law.
Alabama State Troopers say a Prattville man has been killed in a one-car crash. State troopers say 29-year-old Terance Whitfield was killed just before 11PM on Monday night. Investigators say the car he was driving crossed the center line, left…
The Amber Alert for a kidnapped nine-month-old Montgomery boy was canceled late Monday night after he was found.
Montgomery police say a man has been killed in a one-car wreck.
Alabama lawmakers are returning to Montgomery with a number of large issues to be decided in the closing days of the legislative session.
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management says more than 400 water and sewer systems have applied for grants funded by pandemic relief money.
An Elmore County man was arrested and a woman was sent to the hospital after a boat crash on Lake Martin Saturday night.
Montgomery Police say a man was killed after a car accident early Sunday morning.
Montgomery Police say a juvenile female was shot on Saturday night.
Fewer people are being treated for COVID-19 in Alabama hospitals than at any time since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.
