Category: <span>Digest</span>

It's time for session; Broadband: $4B-$6B to reach unserved areas; Alabama Farmers Federation marks 100 years; Biden to meet with GOP lawmakers on virus relief

Ivey to sign prison lease deal, lawmakers bristle at higher cost revelation; AL expanding vaccine eligibility despite lack of doses; COVID protocols limiting public access to legislative session; GOP lawmakers urge Biden to meet with them on virus relief

Ivey to propose pay raises; State health officer on vaccine: 'Not enough to go around'; J&J 1-dose shot prevents COVID-19, but is less effective; Cutting edge health tech making a difference in rural Alabama, but funding is uncertain; Incentives bill filed

General Fund looks okay, law enforcement agencies ask for funds; Mental health services in schools improving, more help needed; Alabama becomes latest state to detect COVID-19 variant; The latest from Washington; First look at Medical Marijuana bill

Images, stories tell of tornado's destructive path; At education budget hearing, talk of pay raises, focus on literacy, COVID-19 fallout; Long-awaited incentives package to be filed as session nears; Feds boosting vaccine deliveries amid complaints of shortages; The latest from Washington

Tornado rips through Fultondale; Budget hearings begin today; AEA pushes for teacher vaccinations; Biden talks upping vaccine goal amid criticism; The latest from Congress

White House, Congress begin talks on COVID relief; Impeachment articles to be transmitted, GOP opposed; Report: Improvements needed in state's suicide prevention efforts; State launches Alabama Family Central website; Remembering Hammerin' Hank

Supply issues hinder vaccine efforts, Harris explains gaps in distribution; 2 in 5 Americans live where COVID strains hospital ICUs; For Lloyd Austin, racism challenge is personal; In first days, Biden flashes action; Hank Aaron, baseball’s one-time home run king, dies at 86

Mask mandate extended; Virus changes speech plans; In the Weeds with Cam Ward; Unemployment rate drops to 3.9%; Biden immigration plan opposed by GOP, conservative groups

Biden takes office; Henry talks about his pardon; Health officials urge Ivey to extend mask order; Stocks are rallying; Inside Alabama Politics

Inauguration Day; Trump says farewell, issues pardons; Robbins wins in HD33; Lawmakers call on ADPH to fix 'kink' in vaccine recording; News Briefs

Jittery district: Inauguration rehearsal evacuated after fire; It's Election Day in HD33; Don't look now, but Alabama's COVID-19 numbers are getting better; Biden to propose 8-year citizen path for immigrants; Bama hoops enters Top 25

State capital cities prepare for protests; FBI vetting Guard troops in DC; What will a 50-50 Senate look like? Alabama funeral homes strained; Latest Tuberville 'gaffe' wasn't one at all

Frustration, Confusion mark early vaccine rollout; State houses prepare for possible violence; Judge deems transgender license policy unconstitutional; GOP parrot far-right talk of civil war; Le Fleur: AL’s environment best it’s been