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Alabama Governor Kay Ivey visits the sidelines during an NCAA football game between Troy and Arkansas State, Oct. 7, 2023, in Troy, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt, File)

Alabama governor overhauls state’s largest water utility amid cries of racial discrimination

Alabama governor Kay Ivey sided with the state legislature by signing a bill that will overhaul the Birmingham Water Works Board. The bill would give more control over the board to the governor and surrounding suburbs.
 
Chuck Poole joins other religious leaders to speak in front of the Alabama Statehouse against bills that would mandate religious texts and instruction in schools, Montgomery, Ala., March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle)

Lawmakers move to mandate the display of Ten Commandments and ban pride flags in Alabama schools

 
Lulu Gribbin, second from left, an Alabama teenager who survived a shark attack in 2024, speaks with attorney Charlanna Skaggs, second from right, and Alabama lawmaker Rep. David Faulkner, right, at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, April 9, 2025. Faulkner has proposed an alert system, named for Gribbin, that would warn other beach goers when there has been an unprovoked shark attack in the area. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

Shark attack survivor presses her state for an alert system to keep people safe in the water

 
A student uses their cell phone after unlocking the pouch that secures it from use during the school day at Bayside Academy, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in San Mateo, Calif. (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Alabama lawmakers advance proposed ban on cellphones in school

 
Sen. Breanne Davis, R-Russellville, left, speaks with Sen. Bryan King, R-Green Forest, during a session of the Senate at the Arkansas state capitol in Little Rock, Ark., on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (Colin MurpheyArkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)

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Court rules Alabama violated Voting Rights Act in drawing congressional lines

 

Alabama lawmakers vote to make Juneteenth an official state holiday

 

Alabama lawmakers vote to ban cellphone use in K-12 public schools

 

Alabama lawmakers approve tax cuts for food, diapers and other items

 

Alabama lawmakers approve bill to let Alfa sell health benefit plans

 

Alabama lawmakers advance bill to let Alfa sell health plans outside insurance regulations

 

Alabama Senate leader says gambling proposal has ‘too few votes’ to pass

 
A black wreath hangs on the door of Adams Drugs in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

Alabama lawmakers advance regulations on pharmacy benefit managers

 
FILE -- Sen. Vivian Figures, D-Mobile, is pictured during the Senate session at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., in this Dec. 10, 2010 file photo. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, file)

Alabama lawmakers approve paid parental leave for state employees

 

Alabama Senate advances bill to allow small fraction of nonviolent offenders resentencing

 
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey visits the sidelines during an NCAA football game between Troy and Arkansas State, Oct. 7, 2023, in Troy, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt, File)

Alabama lawmakers approve a ban on devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns

 
Alabama State Representatives walk through the Statehouse as the Alabama legislative session begins, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, file)

Alabama shoppers could see savings under a proposed cut to the sales tax on food

 

Alabama House approves expanded immunity for law enforcement

 
Nichole Smith signs a memorial sign Sept. 23, 2024, remembering the four people who were killed in a shooting outside a nightclub in Birmingham, Ala., (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle)

Alabama lawmakers advance ban on Glock switches

 
The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Supreme Court clears the way for a lawsuit over COVID-19 pandemic-era unemployment claims in Alabama

 
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey visits the sidelines during an NCAA football game between Troy and Arkansas State, Oct. 7, 2023, in Troy, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt, File)

Alabama Senate votes to give Gov. Ivey more control of Veterans Affairs

 
FILE- Alabama's lethal injection chamber is seen Oct. 7, 2002, at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Alabama seeks to join states that allow the death penalty for child rape

 
Shomari Figures, who is running for Alabama's 2nd Congressional District, speaks during the Democratic National Convention Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Alabama’s congressional map at stake in federal Voting Rights Act trial

 
Demonstrators march to the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 5, 2025 to protest bills that would impact transgender people. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

More GOP-led states seek to follow Trump’s lead in defining male and female

 
Alabama State Sen. Garland Gudger, who was elected Senate president pro tempore on the first day of the 2025 legislative session, appears Tuesday. Feb. 5, 2025 in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle)

Issues to watch in the 2025 Alabama Legislature

 

Alabama Senate elects new leader to kick off 2025 legislative session

 

Alabama supreme court grants breastfeeding women exemption from jury duty after public outcry

 
Alabama lawmakers are shown architectural drawings of what a new Alabama Statehouse will look like when it is complete in 2027 during a meeting of the Alabama Legislative Council in Montgomery, Ala. on May 1, 2024. AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)

New Statehouse has small construction delays, expected to be finished in 2026

 

Alabama Senate Republicans pick Garlan Gudger as new Senate leader

 
FILE - Senator Greg Reed speaks during a debate over SB159 bill in the Senate Chambers, March 6, 2024, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/ Butch Dill, File)

Greg Reed will step down as Alabama Senate leader and join Gov. Ivey’s administration

 

Ivey defends dismissal of veterans commissioners, has no plan to replace parole board chair

 

State veterans affairs commissioner to resign at the end of the year

 

Gov. Ivey asks state veteran affairs commissioner to resign

 
FILE - Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall speaks at a news conference, June 3, 2021, in Montgomery, Ala. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, File)

Alabama man pleads guilty to detonating makeshift bomb outside state attorney general’s office

 
Rob Levy, chief operating officer at CRC of Alabama, discusses the company's cultivation of marijuana plants in Pike County, Alabama on July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

Alabama approved a medical marijuana program in 2021. Patients are still waiting for it.

 
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