BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Birmingham’s air quality worsened in the American Lung Association’s latest State of the Air report, which gave the greater metro area an F for ozone pollution and a C for short-term particle pollution, according to a report released in late April. The group said the report uses air quality data from 2022…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge has threatened sanctions against top Alabama Department of Corrections officials and the state attorney general’s office after finding they made false statements about equipment used in nitrogen gas executions, the latest episode highlighting deep flaws in the state’s troubled death penalty system. U.S. District Judge Emily C. Marks ruled…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An elevator at Baptist Health Princeton Hospital malfunctioned Wednesday morning with several team members aboard, prompting medical evaluations and an urgent hospital advisory, hospital officials said. A woman aboard the elevator told WBRC-TV FOX 6 that the cab dropped six floors in a terrifying sequence, though Princeton Baptist described only a malfunction…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama is once again at the center of a major voting rights battle after the Supreme Court’s latest decision reshaped how courts can consider race in redistricting, a ruling with direct consequences for the state’s long-running fight over congressional maps and Black representation. The decision lands in a state where federal courts…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is about to give shoppers a two-month break on the state’s grocery tax, suspending the 2% state sales tax on qualifying food items from May 1 through June 30. The move will not eliminate all grocery taxes, as city and county sales taxes will still apply, and the change is likely…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama has named Aaron Wright as its first chief artificial intelligence officer, a new role meant to coordinate how state agencies use AI, promote responsible adoption and help set guardrails around a fast-moving technology that is already spreading across government operations. Wright is not being positioned as an AI gatekeeper, but as…