By MARY SELL, Alabama Daily News Nearly 7,000 people attended the weekend-long Festival of Cranes this past January where the main attractions are about 20 whooping cranes and thousands of sandhill cranes at North Alabama’s Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge. So, when talk of a winter hunting season on the sandhill cranes in Alabama reached festival...
The Selma Police Department is investigating a shooting that injured former state Rep. James Thomas.
The hospital industry is pleased with a recent rule change that will provide a wage index increases for four years to hospitals that have been on the low end of reimbursements. Sen. Richard Shelby, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the rule change earlier this month.
Alabama education groups in 2020 will again push for the creation of better retirement benefits, blaming the current pension plan for at least part of the state’s teacher shortage.
Former state Rep. Ed Henry’s attorney won’t get to question this week the state’s former top prosecutor about what happened in a Lee County grand jury room in 2014.
In a legal fight to publicly reveal his 2014 Lee County grand jury testimony, former state representative Ed Henry now wants to depose the state's former lead prosecutor.
In an interview Monday, LeFleur told Alabama Daily News the very news media complaining about a lack of transparency from ADEM received the information for their reporting from the agency's website.
By MARY SELL, Alabama Daily News The Alabama Industrial Development and Training agency, the department of commerce’s worker recruitment arm, is looking for about 27,000 employees for a variety of industries. About 75 to 80% of those jobs require education beyond high school and finding workers becomes more challenging as Alabama’s unemployment hits record lows,...
Alabama Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon says he’s not favoring any GOP candidate in a special House primary runoff.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the rule would close a "loophole" that allows those receiving other forms of welfare to automatically qualify for food stamps without states reviewing income or assets.