Author: Mary Sell (Mary Sell)

A moment of silence for the more than 12,000 Alabamians who have died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic is planned for noon today. The remembrance is organized by the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Alabama Hospital Association.

By MARY SELL, Alabama Daily News The number of students graduating from Alabama high schools and entering state universities and colleges dipped by 5% in 2020 to 41%. While that decrease can in part be blamed on COVID-19-caused disruptions, it’s also part of a larger decline that education officials say is a sign of a...

During the first public hearing on reapportionment Wednesday, Alabamians asked the lawmakers redrawing voting districts not to split up communities of interests and keep counties whole in the new maps being created.

By MARY SELL, Alabama Daily News Armed with new information about which districts gained and lost residents, the committee redrawing the Alabama House and Senate, Congressional and board of education maps will begin public hearings Wednesday. The hearings will be held at community colleges and can be attended in person and observed online. A complete...

Secretary of the Senate Pat Harris this morning said a 2,000 AMP breaker went out, causing a building-wide outage for about two hours.

The Alabama State Employees Association is asking state agencies and departments to be “as creative as they can in helping all state employees through this pandemic,” Executive Director Mac McArthur told Alabama Daily News.

Most Alabama school teachers temporarily sent home this school year because they contract COVID-19, are exposed to it or are caring for their own children in quarantine will have to use their personal leave time to do it.

Alabama’s unemployment rate was 3.2% in July, down from 3.3% in June and 7.4% in July 2020.

Summer discussions between lawmakers and Gov. Kay Ivey's administration on how to fix the state's crowded and crumbling prisons has entered the draft legislation phase.

More scholarship money is available in the upcoming academic year for high school students who also want to earn college credits in math, science and engineering. The STEM scholarships are in addition to existing career technical education scholarships that have been available for several years.

Rep. Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, is the new Alabama House education budget committee chairman.

The number of young unaccompanied immigrants taken into custody at the U.S. southern border and sent to sponsors in Alabama has increased from October through June to 1,062. 

By MARY SELL, Alabama Daily News Earlier this summer, the State of Alabama awarded 18 grants worth more than $4 million to help private entities add electric vehicle charging stations for public use. However, during the process, the state received 76 applications requesting more than $18 million. “Eighteen million dollars in requests does show the...

Schools that have students wear masks and follow certain COVID-19 protocols won’t have to send home children exposed to the coronavirus, according to recent guidance from the Alabama Department of Public Health.