politics

The two Alabama Senate budget chairmen are swapping committees for the upcoming session.Sen. Trip Pittman of Montrose will head the general fund budget…

The Alabama Ethics Commission have released an opinion on the idea of public employees being paid by outside sources.Commissioners say the arrangements…

The fallout continues from Alabama’s new general fund budget. APR student reporter Taylor Swinney reports the fiscal year has just begun and the impact is…

A judge has set a hearing on House Speaker Mike Hubbard's claims of prosecutorial misconduct and argument that the ethics law is unconstitutional.Lee…

Former Alabama first lady Dianne Bentley says she's "doing fine" days after her divorce from Gov. Robert Bentley.Dianne Bentley filed for divorce from the…

Republican Representative Phil Williams of Huntsville says he is challenging Mike Hubbard to be speaker of the House, saying he, and others, believe the…

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says it is pulling examiners out of 31 part-time satellite driver’s license offices because of budget cuts.The agency…

All year long on Alabama Public Radio, we’re been looking at water. In other words, we’ve been examining the condition of our water supply and the health…

Many state departments will be making do with less money when the fiscal year begins on Thursday.Yet some state agency chiefs are remaining silent on…

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley says lawmakers encroached on the powers of the executive branch with budget bill language dictating how state agencies…