Teacher pay increases, Medicaid expansion and road and energy infrastructure improvements are among the issues area lawmakers say they will be tackling during this year’s legislative session ...

Sen. Wes Kitchens, R-Arab, said his bill would allow state, county, and city police to detain someone arrested for a crime ...

The murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley by an illegal immigrant sparked a national debate over federal immigration ...

Outside of normal business hours, agencies would still have to allow lawmakers in if they are given at least 12 hours notice ...

Senate Republicans introduced a pair of bills on Wednesday aiming to strip the country of its electric vehicle (EV) tax ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a constitutional amendment that adds more crimes to the list of crimes for which bail ...

A state lawmaker is looking to make several normally legal hemp products just as illegal as Heroin or other controlled ...