Montgomery AL

The Montgomery County Department of Human Resources in Alabama will return to its permanent office at 3030 Mobile Highway on December 3, 2025. The office has been at a temporary location since 2022 due to renovations at the original site.

An audit by the Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts found that the Alabama Family Trust Board, the state body responsible for overseeing supplemental-needs trusts for individuals with disabilities, had violated state law regarding board vacancies and public meeting requirements. The Board also oversees...

He was not covered by workers’ compensation insurance. But his course and scope of employment was enough for an employer’s liability insurance exclusion to apply, said the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which overturned a lower federal court ruling and left a left-for-dead convenience store employee with no...

Claudette Colvin was only 15 years old when she protested segregation by refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 2, 1955. That was nine months before Rosa Parks famously performed the same act of resistance in Montgomery on December 1, 1955.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed will hold his monthly media briefing Monday afternoon. WSFA 12 News will carry this news conference live starting at approximately 1:30 p.m. on our website, mobile app, and social media pages. Mayor Reed is expected to give updates on key city initiatives,...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alexus Ables is a long way from home. The California girl grew up in Palmdale, but she always had dreams of going to college in the Deep South. “I have always been attracted to the South and I really wanted to attend an HBCU,” she said. “I visited a few schools and just knew. It’s the people...

Growing up in Montgomery in the 1930s and 1940s, Fred Gray's mother told him that he could do anything in life, as long as he did three things: keep Christ in your life, get a good education, and “don’t get involved with the criminal justice system, because it doesn’t always work out.” The laws of segregation...

Montgomery residents have new recreational opportunities at the city's newest pickleball courts. Pickleball is the latest athletic trend to take the nation by storm, with older crowds and Generation Z young adults alike looking to play. Casual, leisurely participation in the sport has grown more than 150% nationally...

Monday, Dec. 1, marks the first day of meteorological winter. And this month could bring warmer-than-average temperatures to the state, according to one long-range forecast. Meteorological winter is made up of the months of December, January and February. The winter months of course bring Alabama’s best chances for...

One of the great things about hiking in Alabama during the winter is that we don't experience the brutal winters that our friends up north do. We can hit the trails pretty much year-round, and don't have to worry about ice on the trails or snowy conditions too much. That being said, one of my […]