MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama House adopted a record-high $9.3 billion education budget Tuesday for fiscal year 2025, a $550 million increase over this year’s budget.  Members also adopted two supplemental education spending bills totaling more than $1.6 billion that would affect the current fiscal year, $1 billion of which would be directed toward local […]

Senate agrees to conference committee on gambling bills The Alabama Senate on Tuesday agreed to send gambling legislation to a conference committee of Senate and House members to try to work out differences between the two chamber’s versions of the bills. The proposed constitutional amendment and enabling legislation that would allow for a lottery have […]

From staff and wire reports Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey joined five other southern governors Tuesday to tell auto workers that voting for a union will put their jobs in jeopardy. About 4,300 workers at VW’s plant in Chattanooga will start voting Wednesday on representation by the United Auto Workers union. Vote totals are expected to be tabulated […]