Health
UAB's Dr. Michael Saag said child hospitalizations could be increasing due to the record numbers of cases the state is seeing.
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- Legislature
Legislative committees set up ARPA funding for Tuesday vote
Senate committee stalls bill seeking elimination of occupational tax
Remaining ARPA funds go to broadband, health care, sewage, water treatment
Alabama House passes repeal bill for “restrictive” NIL law for student-athletes
Senate committee moves along tax cut bills
- Opinion
Opinion | Truth is back to bite Mike Durant
Opinion | Southern Research investing in future of Birmingham
Opinion | Early education pilot showing positive results for children across Alabama
Opinion | The pandering MLK quotes are coming
Opinion | It’s past time to stop celebrating Robert E. Lee on MLK Day
- National
The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act dies on Senate floor
Congressman Jerry Carl announces key D.C. staff change
U.S. Supreme Court blocks vaccine mandate for large businesses
John Lewis Voting Rights Act passes in combined package with Freedom to Vote Act
Doug Jones calls for building “pro-democracy coalition”
- Education
New data shows children using Waterford Upstart are exceeding mastery of subjects
Birmingham Promise scholarship applications now open for class of 2022
Biden administration extends student loan forbearance
University of Alabama Faculty Senate formally opposes ban of Critical Race Theory
AASB announces new leadership on the board of directors
- Health
UAB epidemiologist: Alabama’s COVID surge could last for several more weeks
Alabama’s child COVID hospitalizations hit another record, four on ventilators
U.S. government to launch free COVID test website Wednesday
Alabama setting record numbers of child COVID hospitalizations
Alabama has lowest average total single premium, according to government report
Elections
The sister of U.S. Senate candidate Mike Durant said her brother attempted to silence her and chose to support her father, who she said...
Prisons
William Sullivan died shortly after arriving to Kilby Correctional Facility on Jan. 8 from the minimum security Red Eagle Work Center in Montgomery.
Legislature
The bill would distribute about $772 million in federal funding primarily towards broadband expansion, water and sewer improvements and health care.
Infrastructure
The grants are from funds made available by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Featured Opinion
Who gets to claim THEY are God’s chosen human? Well, Durant did right out of the box.
Infrastructure
A provision in the Alabama constitution prevents counties from investing in broadband projects.
Infrastructure
The grants total more than $18 million to help 51 communities across Alabama complete vital infrastructure projects.
Congress
Laura Stagno, a Birmingham native, will serve as Congressman Carl’s new legislative director.
Prisons
There were 334 new confirmed cases among incarcerated people and 146 cases among prison staff last week.
Health
There were 2,566 people hospitalized with COVID in Alabama on Tuesday, the highest it’s been since Sept. 10.
Health
Of the 97 children hospitalized with COVID-19 on Monday, 15 were in ICUs and four on ventilators.
Opinion
We are building a Center for Pandemic Resilience.
Opinion
Early education nonprofit Waterford.org in January released the first interim report for the Alabama Waterford Upstart pilot.
Featured Opinion
The same people who spend all year tearing down everything King worked for will be sending out his quotes.
Featured Opinion
This is about giving MLK his just due, not undermining him by celebrating someone who led a competing, wrong cause.
Courts
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to block the rule.
Elections
"Jeff Sessions has acted exactly as he should have and I agree with Comey's testimony in that regard," Sessions said.
Congress
Congresswoman Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, originally sponsored the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Featured Opinion
Folks don’t want to believe that some of their ancestors could be so callous, so inhumane.
Legislature
Elected to the House in 2018, Kitchens is among the few freshmen legislators in history to hold such a prominent leadership position.
Legislature
Rep. Matt Simpson, R-Daphne, has been elected as the group’s freshmen representative.
Elections
Manufacture Alabama announced Supreme Court endorsements for candidate Greg Cook and incumbent Associate Justice Kelli Wise.
Prisons
Harold Wallace is the latest in a string of deaths inside Alabama prisons, which last year saw record deaths from suicides, homicides and drug...
Elections
"And I am running for governor because I believe the leadership in this state have capitulated to the political structures that control Montgomery," James...
