We’ve updated and upgraded our popular “Down in Alabama” newsletter to give it more of the flavor of the news podcast that inspired it.

If you haven’t opened up your weekday morning newsletter lately — or if you never signed up in the first place — now’s a great time to check back in with us.

The newsletter is now more of a destination in itself. You can spend a few minutes reading and come away with a sense of what’s going on in our state along with some quirky news and a lot of the most “Alabama” stories you’ll read or hear that day.

And if you’d like to dig in and go deeper on any of the topics represented in the newsletter, we now have more links than ever before to AL.com’s statewide reporting.

Either way, bring a sense of humor. While we take the news seriously, we try not to take ourselves too seriously.