2010 Gulf Oil Spill

Alabama Public Radio won three regional Edward R. Murrow awards for our coverage of the tenth anniversary of the BP Gulf oil spill.We were generously…

The Dauphin Island Sea Lab is a half million dollars richer today thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice.WKRG-TV reports the Sea Lab received the…

The first Airbus produced by the company’s U.S. Manufacturing Facility in Mobile is set to take the skies for the first time next week.The Alabama-built…

Alabama is using a chunk of BP settlement money to renovate a beachfront governor's mansion that's been abandoned on the Gulf Coast for nearly two…

An Alabama man has been sentenced to three years in prison after being accused of assaulting two men. A-P-R’s Stan Ingold reports they were arguing over…

Governor Robert Bentley is weighing in on the general fund budget plan approved by the Alabama House. The package would cut $200 million from state…

The U.S. Supreme Court began to hear arguments yesterday as to whether state bans on same-sex marriage are federally constitutional.In Tuscaloosa,…

April 20 marks the fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest marine oil spill in history.The catastrophic event left 11 workers…

The Obama administration is proposing regulations aimed at ensuring offshore wells are sealed in an emergency. This comes as the fifth anniversary of the…

State officials say they've gained approval for nearly $10 million in projects aimed at restoring Alabama's coastline after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon…