BY MARY SELL, Alabama Daily News The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board is temporarily closing today 78 stores and reducing hours at others in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus. “Because of staffing requirements and health concerns, we believe that closing some of our stores will provide the greatest amount of employee/customer...
The coronavirus could impact the second half of the Alabama Legislature’s bill-passing session, as well as the state’s budgets.
Gov. Kay Ivey on Sunday said that state government agency directors should advise employees to work from home if possible starting today.
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is seeking an emergency opinion from the state attorney general on whether the state’s March 31 runoff election can be postposed.
By MARY SELL, Alabama Daily News MONTGOMERY, Ala. — State officials confirmed Alabama’s first diagnosed case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, this morning, in Montgomery County this morning. Identifiable information about the patient, including age, is not being released, but State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris said the individual had traveled out-of-state...
A new version of a lottery bill has been filed in the Alabama House with enough co-sponsors to easily get it through that chamber, if it makes it to a vote.
At least one GOP lawmaker thinks it’s time to allow teachers back into the Alabama Legislature.
Alabama lawmakers are working on legislation to require some state inmates who work outside of Alabama Department of Corrections facilities to wear electronic monitoring devices.
The number of Alabama universities suspending international travel for students, faculty and staff is growing in response to the spreading coronavirus.
By MARY SELL and CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On the most recent state-mandated school report card, Russellville City Schools had a graduation rate of almost 96% and its score for academic growth — improvements made by students — was an impressive 99.46. Ninety-one percent of students were considered college and career...