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Thousands of workers who lost their retirement benefits after Walter Energy declared bankruptcy will be getting them back. APR’s Alex AuBuchon has…

Alabama's unemployment rate is up slightly from a month ago. A-P-R’s Stan Ingold reports, officials say it isn’t entirely bad news…Labor statistics…

About 130 people are losing their jobs at a coal mine west of Birmingham.Walter Energy is laying off 129 workers at Jim Walters Resources in…

Six Hundred and fifty new jobs are coming to Tuscaloosa County.Governor Robert Bentley announced that Samvardhana Motherson Group plans to build a new…

Cherokee County officials say Leesburg Mayor Edward Mackey has died after a bulldozer accident.Coroner Jeremy Deaton says Edward Mackey died around 10:30…

Saying Alabama is in a budget crisis, Gov. Robert Bentley is asking legislators to approve $541 million tax increase.Bentley on Friday unveiled proposals…

Last year new and expanding industries announced plans to create more than 20,000 jobs with investments topping $5.4 billion in Alabama.But those numbers…

More than 800 students from 60 colleges will be at Auburn University this weekend for a national event known as the "Landscape Olympics."Auburn's team of…

Raytheon Co. has opened a missile production facility in Huntsville that is expected to initially create 35 new jobs.Company officials said the new…

Alabama's unemployment rate has declined for the second month to 8.1 percent. The state Department of Industrial Relations announced Friday that October's…