Author: Mary Sell (Mary Sell)

According to June campaign filings, at least three sitting House members have GOP primary challengers who plan to raise funds against them.

Rep. Becky Nordgren, R-Gadsden, who was elected Etowah County Revenue Commissioner last year will take over that office Oct. 1. She’ll vacate the House seat she was elected to in 2010 the same day.

Alabama had 980 drug overdose deaths in 2020, an increase of about 27% from 2019, according to preliminary numbers from the Alabama Department of Public Health.

Senate District 31 includes Coffee, Covington and Pike counties and the northern portion of Dale County.

A second bill targeting how theories on race and bias are taught has been pre-filed in the Alabama House, this one applying to education institutions and the training state employees and contractors receive.

According to Britt’s campaign, her June fundraising total is the most ever raised in a quarter by a Republican candidate for federal office in Alabama. She also set a state record for the most ever raised in a single month by any candidate, and did it in 21 days.

The 2022 primary elections are nearly 11 months away, but several candidates in contested races got off to strong fundraising starts in June. One candidate lent himself $250,000 for his statewide office bid.

State leaders are now discussing building two new prisons and renovating others in an effort to fix the state’s dangerous and crowded correctional system.

After more than four decades in office, Sen. Jimmy Holley, R-Elba, is not seeking reelection in 2022.

A bill to block the medical treatment of transgender youth in Alabama, one of the most controversial bills of the Legislature’s 2021 session, will be back in 2022.

Alabama ranked 47th in the nation in overall child well-being in a recent report - that’s down from 44th two years ago and 42nd in 2018.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency on Saturday evening asked for the public’s help gathering information on the wreck. Anyone with photos or videos from the scene is asked to submit them to media.relations@alea.gov or share via social media @aleaprotects.

Revenue at Alabama’s higher education institutions in 2020 was greater than the national per-student average and ranked seventh in the nation, but students’ tuition dollars made up significantly more of that total than the national average.

Alabama’s unemployment rate was 3.4% in May, down from 3.6% in April and 7.9% in May 2020.

State Finance Director Kelly Butler is retiring Aug. 1 due to medical complications that might be associated with ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Gov. Kay Ivey said today.