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…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is observing Confederate Memorial Day on Monday, continuing a state holiday that dates to 1901 and remains tied to Civil War remembrance, Lost Cause traditions and a long-running debate over how the South remembers the Confederacy. The day is observed the fourth Monday in April in Alabama, and state offices are…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Canadian human rights lawyers are asking Ottawa to block some U.S.-made vehicles and auto parts they say are tied to forced prison labor in Alabama, putting renewed scrutiny on the state’s prison work system and its role in the auto supply chain. The complaint targets imports the lawyers say can be traced…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal appeals court on Friday overturned an $8.2 million defamation verdict that former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore won against a Democratic super PAC over a 2017 campaign ad that referenced sexual misconduct allegations against him, including claims that he had pursued a teenage girl at a shopping mall. The 11th…

MONTGOMERY, Ala — Alabama’s decision to cancel its billion-dollar prison health care contract with YesCare and replace it with Birmingham-based NaphCare is more than a vendor swap. It is the latest sign of a corrections system that has been under sustained scrutiny for brutal conditions, inadequate medical care and a long record of failure that…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Online speculation surrounding the death of Alabama researcher Amy Eskridge has revived a long-running conspiracy theory that links obscure scientists, classified research and anti-gravity claims, but the public record does not support the more sensational accusations, and some of the names now attached to the theory do not fit the narrative cleanly.…