Author: Mary Sell (Mary Sell)

Alabama lawmakers recently approved funding for a pilot scholarship program to get recent college graduates with degrees in science, technology and math subjects to live in the city of Decatur and the Demopolis areas. 

Alabama’s unemployment rate steadily decreased amid a booming economy last year, but the number of people receiving health care through Medicaid in Alabama grew in 2019.

U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Tuberville traveled to Dallas on Thursday to meet with President Donald Trump and was photographed deplaning Air Force One with him. 

A federal judge this week questioned whether the Alabama Department of Corrections can meet required hiring goals and gave it until today to show him a written plan for getting more staff in its prisons. 

Alabama colleges and universities are getting about $275 million directly from the federal government to help mitigate the impacts of the coronavirus on them and at least some of their students. 

ALSDE wants a statewide virtual learning option for K-12 students whose parents may not want them to return to traditional classrooms this fall.

Contract tracing is done to find people who may have been exposed to COVID-19 and provide them with information, including home orders to quarantine, if applicable, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.

Alabama’s gas tax collections dipped by about $2.5 million, or 6.7% in May, representing a drop in travel in April when the state was at the height of its coronavirus slowdown.

Alabama cities and counties can now apply for reimbursement of expenses related to the COVID-19 health crisis. For the state’s larger municipalities and counties, millions of dollar are available.

Three patients at the Mary Starke Harper Geriatric Psychiatry Center in Tuscaloosa have died recently from COVID-19, the Alabama Department of Mental Health told Alabama Daily News on Tuesday.