Local Politics

It started as a bill about Chinese ownership in the auto industry. Now it has Ted Cruz accusing General Motors of using it to take down Mercedes as a competitor.

Public opinion on data centers has quietly flipped — and a massive project near Brookwood Middle School is giving a lot of West Alabama families a reason to pay attention.

Terri Sewell and Robert Aderholt represent the same state, but after Trump's address this week, they couldn't be further apart on what's actually happening with American elections.

West Alabama sits at the heart of American catfish farming — but right now, the people raising those fish are having a really tough time making ends meet.

A one-vote margin. A recount. A tie. And then it came down to one man casting the deciding vote in a Perry County commissioner's race.

Twenty-three data centers already running in Alabama, more on the way, and two candidates for governor who couldn't be further apart on what happens next.

Alabama shoppers are back to paying the grocery tax as of July 1st — and for families already stretched thin, even two percent adds up fast.

The recount was supposed to settle it. Instead, Perry County's District One primary race just got a whole lot more complicated.

Workers didn't get paid, vendors got left holding the bag, and a state lawmaker from Tuscaloosa wants to know how Alabama ended up in business with them in the first place.

A new Alabama law is now on the books, and it changes what happens the moment a school threat is made — starting with who pays for what comes next.