State

Organizing through storytelling

By Sam Willoughby | Community Editor | January 29

Foreword South launched in April 2017 with the goal of giving a platform to the various community members that founders come in contact with.

Auburn alumni start organization to engage millennial Alabamians in state government

By Sam Willoughby | Community Editor | January 23

Led by three Auburn University alumni, Young Alabama is a conservative group with a podcast and blog that intends to amplify the youthful voices of the state with a tumultuous recent past.

Governor appoints Auburn grad to Alabama Supreme Court

By Staff Report | January 21

Gov. Kay Ivey appointed Circuit Judge Brad Mendheim to the Alabama Supreme Court to fill former Justice Glenn Murdock's empty seat on Friday.

EAMC employee on shifting healthcare

By Taylor White | Community Writer | January 21

Attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare, tax reforms and CVS buying Aetna for $67 billion all affected the field of healthcare in 2017.

Longtime Alabama state legislator Rep. George Bandy dies

By Staff Report | January 16

The 72-year-old Democratic representative from Opelika passed away in a Macon, Georgia, hospital.

Gov. Kay Ivey: 'The state of the state is strong'

By Chip Brownlee | Editor-in-chief | January 10

Gov. Kay Ivey, less than a year into her job as Alabama's 54th governor, declared the State of the State strong and the future bright.

Despite Moore's last-ditch effort, Alabama certifies Jones as winner

By Chip Brownlee | Editor-in-chief | December 28

The Republican-dominated State Canvassing Board met Thursday in Montgomery to sign off on the official election results

Doug Jones wins in historic upset

By Sam Willoughby | Community Editor | December 14

Doug Jones will be the first Democratic U.S. senator from Alabama in over 20 years.

Charles Barkley to campaign with Doug Jones at election-eve rally

By Staff Report | December 11

Barkley, who played basketball at Auburn in the 1980s, has been a staunch opponent of Jones' Republican rival, former Chief Justice Roy Moore.

Doug Jones crisscrosses the state in final days of the campaign. What about Roy Moore?

By Chip Brownlee | Editor-in-chief | December 11

While Jones has been in front of cameras and voters consistently over the past week, Moore has all but disappeared from the campaign trail.

Alabama Water Watch celebrates 25 years of service

By Staff Report | December 8

For the past 25 years, an Auburn University-based group of devoted citizens has watched over and protected Alabama's miles of rivers and streams. Founded in 1992 thanks to federal grant money through the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, Alabama Water Watch monitors these waterways in order to improve both water quality and water policy. In their quarter-century of service, Alabama Water Watch monitors 132,000 miles of rivers and streams, 300 species of freshwater fish, crayfish, snails, turtles and mussels, more than any other state. “Many people didn’t think we would last a year because they thought Alabamians were not interested in their water or their environment,” said Bill Deutsch, Alabama Water Watch co-founder and research fellow emeritus in Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences. Deutsch directed Alabama Water Watch for its first 22 years and remains heavily involved in the association.

You can register to vote until Monday at 11:59 p.m.

By Staff Report | November 27

The deadline to register online is Monday at 11:59 p.m.

Trump stands firm in support for Roy Moore

By Tracy Wilkinson | Tribune Washington Bureau | November 26

President Donald Trump Sunday reiterated support for Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.

White House joins GOP line that keeping Alabama seat matters most

By John T. Bennett | CQ-Roll Call | November 20

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The White House on Monday joined a growing chorus of Republicans declining to formally back embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore but stressing that the GOP-held seat is too important to lose. The president and senior White House officials have declined publicly calling for Moore to drop out of the race or giving him an official endorsement.