Student/athlete compensation, vaccine passports, a sports official's retirement and those Tuscaloosa arches.

Alabama Black leaders' response to the Derek Chauvin verdict; COVID hospitalizations; an Army helicopter crash; pushing pardons in Birmingham.

Alabama's prison plan, Pre-K accolades and the arrest of one of America's Most Wanted.

Jobs on the Alabama coast, mullet on the beach, and this week's weather throughout the state.

The Army is testing helicopters, the state legislature is still in high gear, and we're close to finding out whether we'll lose representation in Congress.

Drone deliveries, medical marijuana and sweet potatoes.

An interstate tragedy. A bill declaring college athletes can be paid for their name, image and likeness. Alabama legislative session takes another run at legalized gambling. A program to pardon marijuana misdemeanors... with very few people partaking.

Fighting tumors with a virus, full capacity at Trash Pandas games, and booze all the way to your door.

We'll look at the Amazon union vote, a bill on how to spend money that once went to Confederate veterans, raw sewage overflows in Lower Alabama and the state's weather outlook.

Counting the unionization vote at for the Bessemer Amazon facility. Passing a bill offering lifetime concealed-carry permits. Predicting the hurricane season. Bringing an elephant statue to Bryant-Denny Stadium. Bear Bryant's houndstooth hat up fo...

A scandal affecting the 2022 U.S. Senate race. The UK variant taking over COVID cases. Girls flag football becoming a sanctioned high school sport.

A school choice bill, a city's mask mandate, COVID money, Alabama house votes down bill making it illegal to hold a phone while driving. 

Rickey Smiley on Birmingham crime. Health officials on laminated vaccine cards. Entertainment districts in Mountain Brook. Simulated childbirth on America's Funniest Home Videos. Coal miners union reach a tentative agreement.

We have a couple of passings to share, a coal-miner strike and this week's weather.

Another spike in gun demand, a street preacher told to dial it down a little, a bill that would limit the government's ability to pick who's essential and who's not, and an Alvin's Island shark making people nervous.

Another Capitol update; a reason to not turn your COVID masks into grease rags just yet; John Christy leaving the EPA; and regular folks like us driving around the track at Talladega.

How we now rank on COVID vaccine delivery, more politicians questioning the Space Command decision, one of the Bear's hats, and Auburn can fish again soon.

Ivey vs. Biden on mask mandates, tally time in the Amazon/union vote, the medical marijuana push and winning on the Drew Barrymore Show.

Gun bills, Amazon vs. the union and this week's weather.

Spring weather batters Alabama. A journalist's own home was hit by a tornado while he continued to report about it, and check on his wife. Dollar General coming to Alabama. Auburn university sophomore bit by a shark and his arm rescued by surgeon....

2021 US Senate race details. Excuse me, is that an iguana in your toilet? More details on Jill Biden's visit to Alabama. NCAA women's basketball.

Alabama graduation rates in recent years. The real March Madness: It's Alabama food bracket time. NCAA women's basketball.

COVID vaccines, free doughnuts, plans to Rock the South, and the First Lady visits the state.

How crowded one ICU became, how old we're becoming, and how the weather might do us this week.

A bill-passing frenzy in Montgomery, a rocket test in Huntsville and notes on hurricane season.