EMILY COCHRANE

Birmingham-Southern College was on the verge of receiving a multimillion-dollar loan, but the state treasurer balked, saying it was not a justifiable use of taxpayer...

Republican presidential candidates will gather in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday, at a moment when the state’s politics have new resonance on the national stage.

The publication of the apparent excerpts by a conservative commentator enraged the parents of surviving students, who have been fighting to keep the writings from...

Even before the Nov. 18 election, some liberals are pushing the state party to confront its internal divisions and paltry fund-raising.

That position, he said, reflected in part “a false confidence that our community was above this, and that we could be in full control, among...

Republicans in the state violated a landmark civil rights law in drawing maps that diluted the power of Black voters, a federal judge in Atlanta...

The victory by Mr. Landry, the state’s attorney general, secures Republican control of Louisiana after eight years of divided government.

Should Jeff Landry, the state attorney general and front-runner, win, he will likely drive Louisiana further right on issues such as crime and L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

The new voting map, chosen by a court after it ruled that Alabama illegally diluted Black voting power, could lead the state to elect two...

The former Memphis officers, who already pleaded not guilty to state charges of second-degree murder, face new charges of civil rights offenses and witness tampering.