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Ala. Bureau of Pardons and Paroles cancels meeting after ‘hot mess’ left by prior leadership

The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles on Friday announced that it has been forced to cancel over 100 hearings set for next week...

State Rep. April Weaver nominated for vice chair of national Energy Council

State Rep. April Weaver (R-Pelham) has been nominated by her Alabama legislative colleagues to serve as national vice chair of the prestigious, Dallas-based Energy...

Doug Jones needs to talk to his party about their gun control plans

Monday evening in Elkmont, Alabama, five family members were killed by a 14-year-old with a history of concerns that are being raised after the...

Election observers authorized for Montgomery mayoral runoff as voter fraud investigations continue

MONTGOMERY -- Alabama Secretary of State John H. Merrill on Thursday held a press conference announcing that 12 individual instances of alleged fraudulent voting...

Will Anderson: Ivey right to stand firm against NAACP call to resign

The head of the Alabama NAACP and two state legislators want Kay Ivey to resign for dressing up in blackface in a college skit...

WATCH: Ala. Senate Majority Leader Greg Reed stuns crowd with rendition of ‘My God Is Real’

Alabama Senate Majority Leader Greg Reed (R-Jasper) is already known as one of the state's greatest orators and most accomplished conservative statesmen. However, judging...

VIDEO: Ivey’s blackface past, toll bridge dies, ALGOP calls for Omar’s expulsion and more on Guerrilla Politics …

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dexter Strong take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Should Governor Kay Ivey resign over...

Roy Moore: ‘I support’ Ilhan Omar’s expulsion — ‘If they take an oath to the Koran – no, they should not serve in Congress’

Last week at its summer meeting in Auburn, the Alabama Republican Party passed a resolution encouraging the state's congressional delegation to call for the...

California’s Kamala Harris endorses Steven Reed in Montgomery mayoral runoff

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) has decided to throw her weight around in the Montgomery mayoral runoff, endorsing Montgomery County Probate Judge Steven Reed. In...

‘High quality woman’: Trump backs Ivey after blackface apology

President Donald Trump is strongly sticking by Governor Kay Ivey. As reported by University of Alabama alumna and Yellowhammer State native Kaitlan Collins, now covering...

Governor’s office: ‘Honest mistake’ that apology letter mistakenly sent to wrong House list

Thursday's unexpected apology from Gov. Kay Ivey not only revealed Alabama still has not fully exorcised the demons of its past, it showed us...

The Mobile Bay Bridge and Bayview toll project is dead, now what?

For most of us in the state of Alabama, the opposition to the Mobile Bay Bridge and Bayview project was little more than an...

ALGOP Chair Lathan: ‘We stand with Governor Ivey uniting our state for a greater future’

Alabama Republican Party Chairman Terry Lathan has responded to reports of Governor Kay Ivey allegedly wearing blackface during a skit while she was a...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey apologizes after 1960’s radio clip surfaces alleging she wore blackface

Allegations are being made that Governor Kay Ivey wore blackface while a student at Auburn University in the mid-1960's. This comes after Auburn's student media...

Trump pollster, ex-Cruz presidential campaign boss team up to support Tuberville for Senate

Tommy Tuberville's U.S. Senate candidacy continues to pick up steam. Yellowhammer News has learned that a political action committee with major conservative bona fides formed...

Meadows wins Republican nomination in Alabama’s House District 74

MONTGOMERY -- Charlotte Meadows on Tuesday won the special Republican primary runoff election in Alabama's House District 74. Meadows garnered 3,800 votes (55.06%), with Michael...

Trump campaign selects 15 prominent Alabama Republicans as honorary state chairs

Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. and the Republican National Committee (RNC) on Monday announced the members of the Alabama Trump Victory leadership team. This...

Montgomery holds municipal elections, HD 74 GOP runoff on Tuesday

Voters in the City of Montgomery will head to the polls on Tuesday for its municipal elections, with some residents also getting to weigh...

Byrne: Stop calling Democrats ‘progressive’

MONTGOMERY -- Congressman Bradley Byrne (AL-01) spoke to members of the Montgomery Rotary Club at their weekly lunch meeting on Monday, hitting on a...

Jim Zeigler says his anti-toll group won’t compromise

The fight over tolls on the Mobile Bay Bridge and Bayway project has turned into a statewide issue that could have ramifications in Alabama's...

ALGOP holds summer meeting — ‘We are the gatekeepers of freedom’

AUBURN -- The Alabama Republican Party on Saturday held its annual summer meeting in Lee County for the first time, with a host of...

ALGOP passes resolution calling for Ilhan Omar’s expulsion from Congress- ‘Let Alabama be first and let’s see how many other states follow’

AUBURN -- U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is no friend of the Alabama Republican Party. That was the takeaway on Saturday at the ALGOP's summer...

The Alabama Education Association protects the status quo by opposing charter schools

There are good things happening in education within the state of Alabama, but overall, the quality of education in this state lags behind the...

Kellum seeking reelection to Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

Judge J. Elizabeth "Beth" Kellum has officially announced her intention to seek reelection to a third term on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. She...