Tommy Battle, conservative leader and top Republican gubernatorial challenger, has accepted Governor Ivey’s invitation to debates across Alabama. Battle wants a debate in each of Alabama’s seven congressional districts before the June 5, 2018 Republican Primary. Last week, a spokesperson for Ivey’s…
The city of Gardendale and its municipal court have cut ties with a private probation company that ran an illegal, profit-driven, private probation scheme in Gardendale by exploiting low-income defendants and violating their federal constitutional and state rights. The separation…
Alabama lawmakers pass a proposed ethics law change that would exempt economic development activity from…
Alabama lawmakers may require more secure covers on restaurant grease pits after a little girl's death in Auburn. The House of Representatives voted 99-0 for the bill that would require locking manhole covers on the traps. The bill is named…
It was a heated council meeting Tuesday night as the Montgomery City Council voted to reinstate a controversial judge. "The time is up for all of y'all, and the time is…
Last year, state lawmakers passed a bill mandating insurance coverage for autism therapy but the fight continues as some are still not pleased with Alabama's 18-year-old age cap for autism therapy. "The…
Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the office manager of a Montgomery daycare center has been convicted for electronic solicitation of a child. Deggi Hardwick, 34, pleaded guilty this morning in Montgomery County Circuit Court to the class B felony.…
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is creating a school safety council to make recommendations on securing schools in the wake of the deadly shooting in Florida. Ivey signed the executive order…
Alabama could be adding 'Rosa Parks Day' to its list of state holidays. Supporters of the idea held a rally on the house chamber floor calling on law makers to designate…
Stingray Bay at the Montgomery Zoo officially opened to the public Tuesday. The 6,700 gallon saltwater pool is home to two Atlantic Stingrays, 11 Fiddler Rays and many other aquatic animals. …
A federal watchdog says White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway violated the federal law prohibiting government officials from using their positions to influence political campaigns. The Office of Special Counsel, which is unrelated to Robert Mueller's office, says Conway violated the…
The well-known Blackfinn Ameripub restaurant has closed at the Shoppes at EastChase in Montgomery. Suzanna Wasserman, a spokesperson for the Shoppes at EastChase, confirmed Blackfinn's closure, but no reason for the closing was given. Blackfinn opened in EastChase three years…
A lawyer for an Alabama inmate whose lethal injection was halted after staffers could not connect an intravenous line says his client should not face a second date in the death chamber. An attorney for Doyle Lee Hamm wrote in…
Our Golden Apple Award Winner this week comes from the Pike County School System. With over 30s years of teaching experience, Math Teacher and Coach Joey Denison believes in his…
It's a 6700-gallon salt water tank. Right now, there are two friendly stingrays welcoming guests. "Total, we are going to have about 20 stingrays, right now we just started with two and what…
Former Alabama Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb has officially kicked off her campaign for governor. Cobb spoke during a rally Monday night at her campaign headquarters. She says Alabama is suffering…
From the West Alabama Newsroom-- There was a bit of confusion Monday morning in Selma surrounding the event that usually wraps up the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee. For the first time…
There could be big changes ahead for Alabama's Medicaid recipients. There's a new proposal to require parents or care taker relatives to get a job or participate in "work- like activities" to…
A complaint alleging federal campaign finance law violations has been filed against a super PAC that spent heavily to support Senator Doug Jones in Alabama's U.S. Senate election, but did not disclose donors until after the election. The nonpartisan Campaign…
CrimeStoppers recently discovered an unclaimed reward for information that led to the identification and arrest of Rodney Jones in reference to a 2017 Robbery Investigation. The U. S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force took Jones into custody on Wednesday, January 31,…
If you've driven through downtown Wetumpka recently, you may have noticed a mural in the works. Unlike many other murals though, this one is on top of a building. The mural is…
CrimeStoppers recently discovered an unclaimed reward for information that led to the identification of two suspects involved in a 2016 Carjacking Investigation. The tip was received on September 23; one day after CrimeStoppers released video of the suspects. Crimestoppers normally…
From the West Alabama Newsroom-- Thousands of people pack downtown Selma Sunday to take part in the climatic event of the Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee. The bridge crossing march reenactment is the single…
UAB reports the study will try to determine why African-Americans in Alabama have a significantly higher stroke risk than white Alabama residents. They write: The REGARDS (REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke) study will be funded through 2023 by a…
Authorities have identified the man who shot himself to death in front of the White House. Police say it was 26-year-old Cameron Ross Burgess of Maylene, Alabama, who approached the fence along the north side of the White House and…
