Alabama leaders are partnering with Birmingham-based nonprofit Ed Farm and Apple on a state-funded $16 million initiative to expand digital learning and workforce training in some of the state’s most rural communities.
Auburn University (AU) and the University of Alabama (UA) have received a total of $3.85 million to conduct studies on road and highway safety and to promote awareness for the public.
Alabama farm leaders are celebrating a new federal rule decreasing the wages agriculture-related businesses must pay people hired through a guest worker program.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The head of Alabama’s Senate Education Policy Committee says the Alabama High School Athletic Association is making itself irrelevant by refusing to work with lawmakers on a dispute over whether CHOOSE Act participants are …
WASHINGTON — As the federal government enters its third shutdown day, the effects are acutely felt in Huntsville, where roughly 45,000 people work at Redstone Arsenal.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The federal government shutdown that began Wednesday is expected to cause limited immediate disruption for Alabama schools and colleges, though state officials say furloughs and layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education c…
The Alabama Public Charter School Commission (APCSC) has been awarded $29,964,656 from the U.S. Department of Education’s Charter School Program (CSP) Grants to State Entities to be used over five years.
WASHINGTON — Every Friday for about six weeks, a working group filled with state health leaders and lawmakers, is meeting to determine how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on rural health care.
Gov. Kay Ivey has announced a working group that will advise state leaders on Alabama’s application to receive a portion of the $50 billion rural health fund.
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) will soon begin seeking entries to select a boy and a girl for its 9th annual “Share Your Smile with Alabama” photo contest.
BATON ROUGE, La. — A series of reported threats toward historically Black colleges and universities across the U.S., including Alabama State University, on Thursday led to lockdown orders, canceled classes and heightened security.Authorities …
The Lincolnite Club, Inc. will hold a celebration on Oct. 16 at 10 a.m. to commemorate the listing of the Lincoln Normal School on the National Register in 2022.
Democrats on a U.S. House subcommittee on food and nutrition policy warned Tuesday that big changes to the major federal nutrition assistance program in Republicans’ spending and tax cuts law this year will lead some states to cut benefits.
Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) introduced a legislation with Rep. Kevin Hern (OK-01) titled the Home Health Stabilization Act that a press release from Sewell said seeks to prevent proposed cuts to the Medicare Home Health Program.
The president of one of Alabama’s largest unions said last week that people forget the meaning of Labor Day: You should not have to work every day to afford to live.
State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris described to lawmakers on Wednesday the fiscal limbo in which the Alabama Department of Health finds itself as it awaits further federal directives and funding decisions from Washington.
The chair of the Senate’s General Fund committee said Tuesday “the numbers are not adding up” on budget requests from state agencies for fiscal year 2027.
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) was notified Tuesday that a child under 5 years of age living in North Alabama has been confirmed to have measles. The unvaccinated child contracted measles while traveling out of the United States.
