Governor Ivey submitted a formal comment letter Friday to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on opposing the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for companies with over 100 employees.
Penni McClammy has been sworn-in as the new representative of Alabama House District 76, a position held for decades by her late father, Thad McClammy.
The maps were given final approval with Gov. Kay Ivey’s signature at the end of the recent redistricting special session, but various social justice organizations contend the districts are racially gerrymandered.
Two lawsuits are challenging Alabama’s newly approved congressional map, arguing it unlawfully dilutes the voting strength of African Americans with one majority-minority district out of seven.
Sen. Richard Shelby has represented Alabama in Congress for decades, but with his career winding down, the question of where his official papers and records will be stored after his retirement is now known.
Alabama lawmakers approved legislation to prevent companies from firing workers who claim a religious or medical exemption to COVID-19 vaccination mandates.
Alabama lawmakers return to Montgomery this week to debate new legislative, congressional and school board districts maps. The proposed maps were released earlier than expected.
Alabama lawmakers say they’re close to completing new lines that will form the updated districts for the legislature, state board of education, and U.S. House seats.
Dr. Robert Lofton won his seat representing Opelika’s Ward 3 just a year ago, but ALS has taken its toll and the councilman feels now is the time to step away from public office.
There's already a state law preventing businesses from refusing service to unvaccinated people, but there's not a state law keeping businesses from requiring their employees to get the shot.
A veteran of the Vietnam War, Colin Powell rose to the rank of four-star general and in 1989 became the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Committee on the Recompilation of the Constitution decided to move forward on recommendations to strip those provisions as well as language that allowed a brutal convict lease system.
Gov. Kay Ivey was in Birmingham Friday to take part in the Southern Region Governors Panel, but for a brief moment it turned into a birthday celebration led by a fellow governor.
“The reality is [House Bill 2] doesn’t really address overcrowding on a broad scale, because we understand it only applies to roughly 350 inmates to begin with,” Marshall said.
The Alabama prison reform bill is in effect after a week of debates and Gov. Kay Ivey's quick approval. That’s only the first step in overhauling the prison system though.
Alabama representatives are still debating different parts of a proposed prison plan as part of an ongoing legislative special session, but they’ve approved one of the bills before them.
Gov. Kay Ivey has officially called a special session of the Alabama Legislature to tackle prison infrastructure replacement and modernization as well as some specified criminal justice reform bills.
