Local Politics

Some student athletes spent their NIL earnings without realizing they owed taxes. A bill sponsored by West Alabama Democrat Congresswoman Terri Sewell would take that burden off their shoulders.

Demopolis is losing people, but city leaders aren't sitting still. They're building their way back with new housing and businesses.

Train crossings get blocked for hours in Tuscaloosa, but the city's hands are tied by federal law that favors railroads over local communities.

Communities are pushing back hard on data center expansion, and candidates are taking notice with new promises.

Tuscaloosa is considering raising the pay grade for its newly recreated Executive Director of Public Safety by 31 percent, lifting the position's salary ceiling to more than $267,000 and making it the highest-paid job in city government.

Much to the consternation of West Alabama cattle producers, President Trump’s foreign beef import plan went into effect today.

A major meeting today at Brookwood's G.G. Hardin Center will allow 50 citizens there to ask questions about the proposed development of several data centers there.

A tech company with Alabama land holdings just donated twenty-five thousand dollars to a gubernatorial candidate who champions data centers. Coincidence or calculated move?

Alabama's new data center law requires facilities to cover their own power costs.

A senator from Decatur says Alabama's 2021 rules on license plate cameras didn't go nearly far enough, and new legislation may be coming.