State News

By Alaina Bookman One week ago, Salaam Green jumped on a Zoom call. And about 40,000 other Black women joined her, buzzing with excitement about the news that Vice President Kamala Harris was now in […]

BY ALEXANDER WILLIS MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Leaders at the Alabama Department of Human Resources shared data Thursday during a meeting in Montgomery that painted a picture of significant progress for the state’s child welfare system, which […]

By Alaina Bookman All three University of Alabama System campuses will be closing their diversity, equity and inclusion offices and opening new offices under different names. The schools cite a law recently signed by Gov. Kay Ivey […]

By Margaret Kates Federal Highway Administrator Shailen Bhatt and Alabama officials celebrated a $550 million grant for the I-10 Bayway/Mobile River Bridge Project Monday at the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico in Mobile. “Transportation is […]

By Alexander Willis MONTGOMERY, Ala. — New test result data reveals some notable regressions in math proficiency among Alabama students, a trend State Superintendent Eric Mackey called “disturbing” and “concerning.” The new preliminary data revealed […]

By Howard Koplowitz Republican members of Alabama’s congressional delegation were quick to praise the $550 million in federal funding announced Friday for the Interstate 10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project in south Alabama. The […]

BY MARY SELL Alabama has seen a slight uptick in younger people in the labor market in the last year, according to Alabama Department of Labor.  While the overall labor force participation rate was unchanged from […]

SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS Last spring, Principal Jon Cardwell met with some of Fairhope High School’s top teachers to address a troubling trend: many students seemed disengaged and unparticipative in class. One teacher’s reaction was particularly […]