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More than 40-million dollars in state funding has been approved for road and bridge repair projects in Alabama. Governor Kay Ivey said the grants from the Rebuild Alabama Act will go to support 25 separate construction projects in cities and counties across the state. Twenty of the projects will include local matching funds. Governor Ivey recently released the 2025 New & Expanding Industry Announcement Report.
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Alabama's economy is growing. Governor Ivey recently released the 2025 New & Expanding Industry Announcement Report.It includes over 230 projects with a total capital investment of nearly 15-billion dollars.
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Governor Kay Ivey gave her final State of the State address last night. The Republican lawmaker’s time in office reportedly includes over sixty nine billion dollars in Capital investment, close to one hundred thousand new jobs, and the lowest unemployment rate in state history
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Alabama Governor Kay Ivey urged the board that oversees Alabama Public Television to delay any decision on severing ties with PBS until it has studied Alabamians’ opinions on the matter and developed a plan for what comes next.
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An Alabama death row inmate set to die this week asked the state’s governor to meet with him “before an innocent man is executed.” Anthony Boyd, 53, is scheduled to be executed Thursday evening by nitrogen gas at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility. A jury convicted Boyd of capital murder for the 1993 burning death of Gregory Huguley in Talladega County.
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Former congressional candidate Ken McFeeters announced Tuesday that he is running for governor of Alabama next year, casting himself as a political outsider and accusing his opponent U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of being a "part of the establishment."
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Gov. Kay Ivey has signed Senate Bill 40, also known as the Houston Hunter Act, into law. The act, named after Army veteran Houston Tumlin and Marine veteran Hunter Whitley who both lost their lives to suicide, aims to prevent veteran suicides by placing holds on firearms between individuals and federal firearm licensees and creates the Storing Ammunition and Firearms to Enhance Resilience Together Program.
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Alabama Governor Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin "Rocky" Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she could not move forward with his execution. Ivey said Myers, 63, will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole instead of being executed later this year. The move stunned Attorney General Steve Marshall and was the first gubernatorial commutation of a death sentence in Alabama since 1999.
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Gov. Kay Ivey is working to fulfilling a commitment to support Alabama families and to recruit and retain public-school teachers and state employees. The office of the state leader says this is being done through a new legislative proposal.
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Alabama is reporting the seizure of more than 48,800 grams of illicit drugs through an enforcement initiative to cut down on narcotics in the state. Gov. Kay Ivey's Office reports approximately 1,700 grams of fentanyl were rounded up under Operation Free.