Alabama News

Alabama is taking a hit from the nation's financial crisis, which has lowered the value of state pension fund, reduced earnings in a plan to send students to college and eaten up more than $100 million of a ...

A 17-story casino hotel being built by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians rises out of the rolling farmlands and pine forests of south Alabama, an eye-catching tower for the stream of travelers on Interstate 65.

Unions haven't had much luck getting their feet in the door to Alabama's automotive industry during boom times dating to the mid-1990s when the first vehicles started rolling off state assembly lines.

After a week with few upsets, the top of The Associated Press poll only underwent slight alterations.

Former Gov. Fob James, who started Alabama's $3.4 billion trust fund with revenue from offshore natural gas leases, plans to vote against Amendment One in the election Nov.

" Governor Bob Riley said Alabama has entered into an agreement with Mississippi and Louisiana that will help speed the arrival of gasoline and diesel fuel into our state.

This has been the most tumultuous week in America's economy in memory. With the previous failures of several major banks, the failure of such giants as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, plus the bailouts of ...

Alabama's congressional delegation has voted 6-1 in favor of the $700 billion government bailout of the financial industry that passed the House.

An Alabama prison system van carrying job applicants collided with a tractor-trailer truck on a rural highway Friday morning that killed several people in the van.

A new study reveals the first-ever genetic link between obesity and colon cancer risk, a finding that could lead to greater accuracy in testing for the disease, said a researcher at the University of Alabama at ...

Alabama's secretary of state has agreed to provide free copies of the statewide voter list to the state's Democratic and Republican parties, rather than charging a penny a name.

State agriculture officials say thieves are targeting Alabama farms for copper and cattle.

School tax revenues in Alabama didn't keep pace with budget projections in fiscal 2008, prompting the state to spend all $440 million from a 'rainy day' savings fund and leaving a gloomy outlook for the new ...

State officials want to know who's stealing cattle in Alabama. In a press release, Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries Commissioner Rob Sparks held a press conference Wednesday, October 01, 2008, ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority's largest electric rate increase in more than three decades takes effect Wednesday.

J.L. Chestnut Jr., the first black lawyer in Selma and a prominent attorney in civil rights cases across a half century, has died at age 77.

The chairman of the national Democratic Party, Howard Dean, will be in Birmingham on Oct.

Alabama's most populous county will miss making an $83 million interest payment on its enormous sewer debt.

Census experts say Alabama is not expected to gain or lose a congressional seat in the 2010 U.S. Census and the racial makeup of the state legislature is likely to remain the same.

Larry Bowman looks on at left as Harris Garner, first vice-president for the Central Alabama Youth Football League, tells parents, coaches and officials of Prattville Cats Youth Football League that he had ...