WASHINGTON — Alabama’s Republican House lawmakers lent their support Wednesday to a $95 billion budget blueprint to boost funding for the Pentagon, farmers and voting restrictions. Republicans’ third party-line bill this year aims to bolster defense funding in the wake of the Iran war, provide relief to farmers and allocate money for a grant program […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Department of Transportation expects construction on the Mobile River Bridge project to start in early October, spokesman Tony Harris said on Wednesday. Briefing members of the Legislative Joint Transportation Oversight Committee about the construction, Harris shared that the state is currently solidifying funding to meet that deadline for the project […]

WASHINGTON — Alabama’s entire House delegation supports a bill to establish a memorial in the nation’s capital honoring the Tuskegee Airmen. U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures introduced the Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Act on Wednesday to authorize the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the legacy of the first Black pilots in the U.S. military, […]