Author: Caroline Beck (Caroline Beck)

Four-year universities in Alabama are using incentive programs to get their campus populations vaccinated against COVID-19 as students return to campuses.

By CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News MONTGOMERY, Ala. – While state officials have held off offering any kind of statewide COVID-19 vaccine incentives, more than a dozen Alabama community colleges are offering perks for students and staff who get the shot. Colleges like Gadsden State Community College are offering students who are fully vaccinated to...

By CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The commission charged with analyzing Alabama’s response to COVID-19 on Wednesday agreed on questions to state agencies about how they reacted early in the pandemic. The commission’s work comes as the COVID-19 delta variant continues to hospitalize more Alabamians, 2,845 as of Wednesday, 41 of them...

Reports of hectic and desperate scenes from Kabul’s airport continue to emerge after the Taliban’s rapid takeover of the city last week and in the U.S., political divisions have risen on how the U.S. should handle the wave of Afghan refugees.

The committee charged with making the state’s monster constitution more user friendly and less racist is now taking written public comments.

A new state commission studying how to help released inmates stay out of Alabama’s prison spent much of a meeting Wednesday working on a definition of recidivism that all state agencies can use.

The Alabama Department of Public Health is recommending individuals with weakened immune systems get a third COVID-19 shot to protect against serious illness.

New COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have been rising rapidly in the last month as the highly transmissible delta variant is causing high community spread throughout the state.

1. Taliban takes Afghan capital The U.S. Embassy in Kabul has suspended all operations and told Americans to shelter in place, saying it has received reports of gunfire at the international airport. The U.S. is racing to airlift diplomats and citizens out of Afghanistan after the Taliban overran most of the country and entered the capital...

Alabama’s Medical Marijuana Commission gathered for the first time Thursday for an organizational meeting as it begins the process of rolling out medical marijuana policies in the state.

The Alabama State Board of Education on Thursday passed a resolution banning critical race theory in public schools, a move that supporters said preserves intellectual freedom and opponents said will stifle how history is taught.

Hammett is the son of former Alabama House Speaker Seth Hammett and said in a press release that his conservative values make him an ideal candidate.

AL ICU beds almost full; Mask mandates in schools draw contention; ADOC says it has built a nitrogen gas execution method; Senate slog to pass infrastructure bill; Census experts puzzled by high rate of unanswered questions

Critical care units in Alabama hospitals are nearing capacity due to increasing numbers of COVID-19 patients, but recent deaths from the virus still remain relatively low.

By CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News Among the various reasons for vaccine hesitancy, one of the most prominent and personal is a concern about the COVID-19 vaccine’s potential effect on pregnant women or those who might soon want to become pregnant. Alabama Doctors and health officials took those concerns head on Thursday seeking to reassure...