Politics

The Northport community and fascinated onlookers around the region got their longest look to date at updated plans for University Beach - the notorious $350 million lagoon resort the city council rushed to approve last year.

Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox invited dozens of his counterparts across Alabama to the Druid City Monday morning to discuss what he calls the biggest threat to major cities across the state - disparities in how sales tax from deals done online gets distributed.

A diverse crowd of several dozen protestors gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown Tuscaloosa to publicly support an Iranian University of Alabama doctoral student who was taken by federal immigration authorities last week.

A lifelong public servant will seek another term on the Tuscaloosa City Council and run for re-election in March, he told the Thread last week.

Governor Ivey has set a special election to replace a West Alabama senator after she appointed the incumbent to serve in her administration, adding another race to a crowded 2025 calendar.

The Thread will be bringing you live local election results as they become available.

Congresswoman Terri Sewell was in Tuscaloosa to present a check to a critically important nonprofit with $850,000 she secured in Washington D.C.

Residents of a rural area west of Tuscaloosa say taxation without representation is at the heart of Local Amendment 1, which will appear on ballots in Tuscaloosa County next month.

With a deeply divisive presidential race ending in 12 days, all eyes are on election integrity and the local branch of the NAACP is raising alarms about potential issues here in Tuscaloosa County.

Governor Kay Ivey heaped praise on Tuscaloosa native Fitzgerald Washington as he announced his retirement as the state's Labor Secretary, effective on Tuesday.