The qualifying period for candidates for statewide and county elections ended last week, and north Alabama voters will have a lengthy ballot of candidates. The primary election is scheduled for May 19 ...

HB 297, sponsored by Rep. Thomas Jackson, D-Thomasville, alters, rearranges and extends the boundary and corporate limits in the City of Monroeville in Monroe County. The bill passed 12-0. It moves to ...

A former Republican state representative is challenging a former Republican party chair’s bid for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor. Gil Isbell said he formally filed the paperwork with the ...

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Alabama State Senator Merika Coleman says she will drop a bill next week that will offer Alabama voters an opportunity to ...

Saturday’s oddly timed runoff is occurring after months of delays.

Voters on Saturday will select one of two Democrats in a runoff election to fill a vacant US House seat, further narrowing Speaker Mike Johnson’s already razor-thin Republican majority.

This is the fifth and final story in the “Crossing the Line” series about efforts in the Deep South to redraw voting ...

A former Alabama lawmaker says he is trying to “do the right thing” by formally questioning whether John Wahl meets the residency requirement to run for lieutenant governor. Wahl, the former chairman ...

Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin has shifted the Democratic majority on the powerful Assembly Budget Committee from 10-5 to 11 ...

It’s the latest of several measures that rights groups say are shrinking the civic space in the Sahel nation.

Democrats Christian Menefee and Amanda Edwards are competing Saturday for a vacant U.S. House seat from Houston, a special election that will narrow the GOP’s already slim House majority.