Shelby resident and local journalist Donald Mottern has officially announced his candidacy for the Alabama State Senate ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to make a decision on Louisiana’s redrawn congressional districts on Friday, pushing it to be ...

The case is being closely watched because at arguments in March several of the court’s conservative justices suggested they ...

At issue is the Louisiana legislature’s creation of a Black-majority congressional district, which a group of voters claimed ...

Rep. Matt Woods, R-Jasper, won the June 24, 2025, special election to fill the Senate District 5 seat. “We were outnumbered ...

District 13 Alabama House Rep. Matt Woods is moving into the Alabama Senate, as the Republican easily beat Democratic ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WTVA) — Matt Woods won Tuesday’s election for Alabama Senate District 5. The Republican won 86% of the vote ...

Alabamians in Lamar, Fayette, Walker and portions of Tuscaloosa and Jefferson counties are heading to the polls Tuesday, June 24, for the Alabama Senate District 5 special election.

The legislature then drew the 2023 map — the one currently being challenged — that still did not include a second majority-Black district. That then prompted a federal court to reject that map ...

A three-judge panel on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama had ruled twice against the state and did so again with its recent ruling.

After the decennial count, the state adopted a congressional map with a single Black-majority congressional district out of six in a state where about 30 percent of voters are Black. Voters and ...