Alabama lawmakers are returning to Montgomery to begin the 2024 legislative session. Here are some issues to watch for as the session begins.
Action 8 News Political Analyst Steve Flowers is providing his expert insight into the start of the 2024 session of the Alabama Legislature.
Construction has already started on the five story State House in downtown Montgomery.
Former Alabama State Sen. Roger Bedford of Russellville has died. He was 67 years old.
A former Alabama lawmaker on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a voter fraud charge that he rented a closet-size space in a home to fraudulently run for office in a district where he did not live.
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A panel of federal judges blocked Alabama’s new congressional district lines — and ordered that new lines be drawn. The ruling has people talking — but no one seems very surprised. Federal judges will now handle drawing new congressional lines for Alabama — after lawmakers didn’t create a second district where Black voters at least…
An Alabama legislator has agreed to plead guilty to a felony voter fraud charge that he used a fraudulent address to run for office in a district where he did not live, according to an agreement filed Thursday.
An Alabama legislator was arrested Tuesday on felony voter fraud charges accusing him of voting in a district where he did not live.
The fight over whether Alabama’s congressional map complies with the Voting Rights Act now shifts back to federal court as the new plan goes before the same three-judge panel that struck down the previous districts.
Alabama lawmakers have approved a new congressional district map without a second majority-Black district, which WAKA 8 Political Analyst Steve Flowers says likely won’t be approved in court.
