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The Alabama Department of Insurance approved the final 2026 premium rates for the Affordable Care Act individual market in Alabama last week. 

Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey announced on Tuesday that she has loaned her 2026 attorney general campaign $500,000.

Clean Up Alabama is encouraging the public to tell the Alabama Public Library Service Board to require libraries to automatically remove sexually explicit materials.

State Sen. Andrew Jones (R-Centre) said “much of this could have been avoided” after a side-by-side ATV accident at Indian Mountain ATV Park killed two parents and left seven children hospitalized over the weekend.

A one-cent reduction in the grocery sales tax will take effect on Monday.

Governor Kay Ivey and multiple state lawmakers criticized a recent ruling by the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) that said student-athletes who transfer using financial assistance from the state’s new CHOOSE Act school choice law will be required to sit out for one year before competing in athletics.

Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell criticized Katherine Robertson’s campaign for Alabama Attorney General on Friday after she reported a $150,000 campaign donation from “Florida billionaire and radical pro-abortion activist Hugh Culverhouse Jr.” last week.

Moody’s, a credit rating agency, withdrew its bond ratings for Montgomery County last month due to a missing 2023 audit.

There’s a “growing link” between transgenderism and mass shootings, according to Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth.

State Rep. Matt Simpson (R-Daphne) and State Sen. April Weaver (R-Brierfield) announced on Thursday that they have pre-filed the “Child Predator Death Penalty Act” for the upcoming 2026 regular legislative session, with 23 Republican senators and 52 Republican House members already joining as cosponsors.

The Alabama Department of Insurance is creating a new pharmacy benefit manager compliance division, DOI commissioner Mark Fowler announced on Wednesday.

The state of Alabama will appeal a ruling by a federal judge on Friday that ordered lawmakers to redraw Alabama’s State Senate map.

U.S. Sens. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) said they were praying for the victims of a recent school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

An ongoing dispute between Fox and YouTube TV at the start of college football season is “unacceptable,” according to U.S. Sens. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn).

Wetumpka Mayor Jerry Willis defeated David Fletcher to win re-election on Tuesday.

Prattville Mayor Bill Gillespie defeated four other challengers to win re-election without a runoff on Tuesday.

Eddie Smith won the election to be the next mayor of Opelika on Tuesday.

Mayor Woody Baird and Mike Densmore are headed to a runoff in the Alexander City mayoral election.

Longtime Pike Road Mayor Gordon Stone won re-election on Tuesday.

Attorney General Steve Marshall announced on Tuesday that a former employee of the Alabama Medicaid Agency has been convicted for the theft of over $100,000 in public funds.

The Alabama National Guard will begin assisting the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in deportation efforts.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through its Administration for Children and Families, demanded on Tuesday that Alabama and 45 states and territories remove all references to gender ideology in their federally-funded Personal Responsibility Education Program educational materials within 60 days. 

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall recently joined a coalition of 26 states in support of ending California’s war on gas-powered cars and trucks. 

State Rep. Chip Brown (R-Hollinger’s Island) announced on Monday that he has filed a three-bill legislative package designed to “protect, promote, and expand Alabama’s commercial seafood industry.”

The Association of County Commissions of Alabama passed a resolution last week encouraging legislators to oppose any legislative changes to the state's online sales tax law, Simplified Sellers Use Tax program.

A federal judge struck down on Thursday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s designation of Alabama forestland as critical habitat for the black pinesnake, ruling that the agency acted arbitrarily without scientific evidence.

U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco ordered Alabama lawmakers on Friday to redraw a new State Senate redistricting map for the upcoming 2026 election.