Jim Zeigler

The unexplained delay leaves Alabama without the contract, survey questions or justification for spending emergency reserves on a partisan pollster.

— It's the close of a chapter in American history that connects 2026 to World War II. Cullman businessman Roy Drinkard died Sunday night in Cullman at age 106.

Charles Whatley, a dairy farmer from Beauregard and builder who served in the Alabama House of Representatives and helped feed hundreds each year at his family's Whatley Stew, died Monday, Aug. 24. He was 81.

Visitation for Roy Drinkard will be Thursday, August 27 in Drinkard's famous home, the Borkenau, 405 9 th SW in Cullman. Everyone is invited for a 2 to 6 p.m. receiving line.

It was Friday, September 1, 2023 on a Labor Day weekend. Just like in Jimmy Buffett’s breakout hit, ‘Come Monday.’ The Buffett-penned song turned out to be somewhat prophetic. Singer/songwriter/novelist Jimmy Buffett died that day.

Marlin Dyess has died in Montgomery at age 88 of kidney failure and congestive heart failure.

Joey Sanders, 65, passed away peacefully at his Vestavia Hills home Sunday evening following a battle with cancer.

Since the 1960s, the celebration of Labor Day in Alabama has changed.

It's now been a quarter of a century since the attacks on the people of the United States by Islamic radicals — September 11, 2001 to September 11, 2026. The people of Alabama will never forget.

Former ALGOP Chair Terry Lathan told the North Mobile Republican Women's Club on Tuesday that closed-primary legislation will be back in 2027 – and that a Governor Tuberville could get it across the line.