The Alabama House of Representative passed the bill 100-0.
Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a proclamation calling the Alabama Legislature into a special session to handle federal COVID relief money under the American Rescue Plan Act.
Legislators say the plan contains bills that focus on a stronger healthcare system, advancing education, rebuilding small businesses, and prison reform.
Gov. Kay Ivey delivered the annual State of the State Address to lawmakers, Constitutional officers, members of the Alabama Judiciary and others Tuesday night.
Alabama lawmakers are returning to Montgomery to begin the 2022 legislative session under the backdrop of looming elections and rising coronavirus cases.
Alabama lawmakers say there may be a special session on how to spend the state’s remaining pandemic relief funds.
This is the state’s monumental political year as Alabama has a off-year or midterm election year cycle, and, among others, the U.S. Senate and Governor’s races are getting serious as the primaries are just four months away.
From the West Alabama Newsroom– Governor Kay Ivey offers a $5000 dollar reward — to help Selma authorities — try and solved a 2020 homicide. Thirty year old Martinez Smiley of Selma — was killed in a hit and run accident — back in November of 2020. It’s been more than a year now since his death — and still…
Nearly two dozen organizations have sent a letter asking the U.S. House Financial Services Committee to investigate Alabama’s plan to use $400 million in pandemic relief funds to build two super size prisons.
Government officials, sheriffs, and many more who were impacted by the lives of the children that were lost in a tragic accident on Interstate 65 earlier this year came together to remember them and dedicate a monument that will forever honor their legacy.
