A full-blown culture war showdown is set for Thursday in Montgomery, where the Alabama Public Library Service (APLS) board will face a surging crowd of speakers — now at 37 and climbing — over the ...

The Fairhope Public Library’s state funding likely will not be reinstated anytime soon after the chairman of the state’s library board claimed the board is failing to relocate materials deemed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The public library in Fairhope, Alabama — a picturesque city on the shores of Mobile Bay — has found itself in the crosshairs of ...

An Alabama board is seeking to prohibit public libraries from placing books that "positively" depict transgender themes and topics in teen and children's sections. The Alabama Public Library Service ...

The Alabama Public Library Service will continue withholding state funding from the Fairhope Public Library amid an ongoing dispute over how the library handles challenges to some books. Members of ...

Fairhope Public Library has permanently lost over $20,000 in state funding that the Alabama Public Library Service Board had withheld since March amid disputes over library materials found in the teen ...

The Alabama Public Library Service Thursday voted to restrict books for minors that address “transgender procedures, gender ideology, or the concept of more than two biological genders.” The changes — ...

The Alabama Public Library Service will continue withholding state funding from the Fairhope Public Library amid an ongoing dispute over how the library handles challenges to some books. Members of ...

Randal Wright was in the middle of a pork sandwich last week when she received an alarming phone call: Alabama had paused funding to the library where Wright volunteered and thousands of residents in ...