When Alabama lawmakers convene for the 2025 legislative session on Feb. 4, they’ll have $525 million in surplus Education Trust Fund tax revenue to allocate.
Alabama’s stalled rollout of medical marijuana, which has been held up in court for well over a year due to litigation from companies denied licenses, may come to a resolution as soon as a few weeks …
Alabama high school students may soon be required to learn about violence prevention, conflict resolution and mediation before graduating if a bill proposed by Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, becomes law.
Alabama Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, is hoping to increase penalties for Alabamians who threaten to release sexually explicit material of another person as means of extortion, a practice sometimes referred to as “revenge pornography.”
The Alabama Department of Human Resources is no longer restoring Alabamians’ stolen food stamps after Congress, in its stopgap spending bill signed by President Joe Biden last week …
A new tax credit for Alabama employers who help provide child care for eligible employees went into effect Wednesday (Jan. 1) and companies will soon be able to apply for a credit of up to $600,000.
Alabama’s prison system, which has been plagued with violent conditions and drug use due to understaffing and crowding, saw significant signs of improvement in 2024,
Exempting hourly workers’ overtime pay from state income tax this year will cost significantly more than early estimates predicted, but lawmakers say they knew those rough calculations in 2023 came with a big asterisk.
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