Alabama News

More than 750 students from across Alabama will converge on Montgomery this week to compete for the state's top medical awards.

A Huntsville Hospital nurse who helped collect tons of relief supplies following last year's tornadoes has been named one of 11 Alabama "Hospital Heroes" for 2011.

Opponents of Alabama's tough immigration law are moving swiftly to repeal - or at least voice their displeasure with - the controversial legislation in the 2012 legislative session that kicks off tomorrow.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- On Tuesday morning at 10:15 a.m., several Huntsville organizations will participate in the "Great Central U.S. Shakeout," a regional earthquake drill.

On September 23, 2011, Governor Robert Bentley reiterated his conclusion that innovation and research are the keys to creating jobs in the Birmingham area.

Republican Rick Santorum will speak in Mobile on March 8 at a presidential candidate forum hosted by the Alabama Policy Institute.

The Arbor Day Foundation and the Alabama Forestry Commission are giving away 30,000 trees to help replant Alabama communities that were devastated by tornadoes last year.

The death of a defendant in Alabama's gambling corruption case caused more than just a one-week delay in the retrial - it led Ray Crosby's friends to question if he died from the stress of what they called an overreaching federal prosecution.

Politicians are never short on promises. Whether you vote Republican or Democrat, whether you are young or old, we have all been promised something by a politician who didn't deliver.

The Huntsville Symphony Orchestra audience will hear some old favorites as well as some brand-new music at the next Classical Series concert this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Mark C. Smith Concert Hall.

Jury selection for the retrial inA Alabama's gambling corruption case starts Monday after a one-weekA delay caused by the death of one of the defendants.

Gary Burgess of Norris Lane in Oak Grove lost his house and a collection of Christmas lights that numbered close to 500,000 and five out buildings to the January 23rd tornado.

A looming revenue drop of about $360 million for the state General Fund next year will hang like a cloud over the Legislature when it starts its 2012 regular session at noon Tuesday, top-ranking lawmakers said.

Alabama's union membership rate fell again last year, but it remains far above that of other states in the Southeast, raising old fears that high unionization levels could be a disadvantage in business recruitment contests.

Alabamaa s farm receipts totaled more than $5.07 billion for 2011, and poultry and livestock accounted for 82 percent of that.

"I think it was much, much more than anybody expected," said Grant Lyons, Pike County Extension Agent.

It seemed like everything was going Michael Vick's way before his involvement in a dog fighting ring was revealed in 2007.

R: Tracy Williams, Ricardo Jaramillo and George Nelson, CASA volunteers, build a ramp for Wayne Greeson Thursday on Alabama Gives Day.

And he has infused them in a book of short stories. They aren't set in Jackson, but Jackson is the city the characters revolve around.

The Alabama Legislature is preparing to enter its second regular session since Republicans took control in 2010 for the first time in more than a century.