MONTGOMERY — The Business Council of Alabama launched the “Keep Alabama Open” movement Tuesday in reaction to some states taking on stricter public health orders and continued talk of federal mandates from the incoming Biden administration aimed to slow the spread of COVID-19.

MONTGOMERY — Alabama has about five weeks to spend almost $1 billion in remaining coronavirus relief funds or the money will revert to Washington, D.C., prompting concerns from advocacy groups that the state will leave money on the table that could be used to help hurting Alabamians.

MONTGOMERY — Alabama is extending a public health order requiring face masks in public but lifting occupancy limits on many places as deaths and hospitalizations from the coronavirus pandemic worsen in the state, officials said Thursday.

MONTGOMERY — Alabama is extending a public health order requiring face masks in public, but lifting occupancy limits on many places as deaths and hospitalizations from the coronavirus pandemic worsen in the state, officials said Thursday.

MONTGOMERY — Charles Graddick will soon resign as director of the Bureau of Pardons and Paroles, the governor’s office confirmed today.

MONTGOMERY — With a year-end deadline to spend it, changes in how the state is using more than $1.7 billion in federal CARES Act money could be coming, state officials said recently.

MONTGOMERY — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued guidance on Friday that said voters who test positive for COVID-19 from now until Election Day can apply for an emergency absentee ballot.

MONTGOMERY — The little girl who gained Alabama internet fame by dressing as Gov. Kay Ivey for Halloween got to meet the real governor on Friday.

MONTGOMERY (AP) — Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth returned to work on Wednesday after being diagnosed with COVID-19 last week.

MONTGOMERY — An Alabama lawmaker was in a meeting in the State House last week when he found out he had COVID-19, the latest of several legislators to test positive for the virus.

MONTGOMERY — Alabama lawmakers will try again next session on a bill to change how growing K-12 schools are funded, taking some burden off of local systems to pay for additional students.

MONTGOMERY — Alabama’s lieutenant governor, who has called the state's mask order a government overstep, announced Wednesday that he has tested positive for COVID-19.

MONTGOMERY — Alabama’s public school teachers would have five additional professional development days under a proposal from Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur.