WASHINGTON — As the race for Alabama’s newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District heats up, incumbent Congressman Shomari Figures has about a $200,000 cash advantage over Republican frontrunner, State Rep. Rhett Marques. After a series of Supreme Court rulings allowed them to, Alabama Republicans reverted to their originally-passed 2023 congressional map, hoping to flip the 2nd […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Gov. Kay Ivey has announced more than $3.6 million of state funding for 11 local road improvement projects. The Alabama Department of Transportation grants come from a program created by a $0.10 gas tax increase in 2019. That uptick, called the Rebuild Alabama Act, requires the state to reserve $10 million of […]

It’s one of multiple novel attempts to fight the mind-destroying disease, including a possible tau vaccine, an experimental heart drug that might do double-duty for some people at high risk of Alzheimer's, and ways to help medicines more easily get across the so-called blood-brain barrier.