Late last week, the Rev. Harry Reeder III of Briarwood Presbyterian Church based in Birmingham, was returning home from meeting with legislators in Montgomery when he was killed in a car crash after striking a dump truck that was reportedly stopping to make a turn. Reeder was 75.

Political action committees (PAC's) have been a standard part of the American and Alabamian legislative process for over a century. While it is standard for PAC's to lobby politicians, these groups sometimes wield enough power to convince legislators to vote a certain way that is in line with organization's goals or beliefs. Most of the time this power comes from monetary donations to the legislators campaign.

Austal USA, a state-of-the-art ship manufacturing facility and company in Mobile, has just won a massive contract from the US Navy potentially worth $3.195 billion.

Innovate Alabama is continuing its push to help fund small businesses throughout the state of Alabama. The organization announced this week that it will be opening a third round of applications beginning June 1st.

Airbus is well known globally for their technological contributions to the aviation industry. Over the past few years, however, the company has begun contributing in a way that may help shape the company's future.

Mental health has become a major focus of federal legislators in recent years, especially those from Alabama. Wednesday, at a hearing for the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee entitled “A Crisis in Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Care,” Dr. Stephen Taylor of Birmingham testified.

US Rep. Dale Strong, Wednesday, introduced legislation that he hopes will serve to protect American agriculture within the United States. The Protecting America’s Agricultural Land from Foreign Harm Act is meant to insure that countries deemed hostile to the United States such as China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia cannot purchase or own US farmland.

In his first hearing as Ranking Member of the U.S. Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (AG) Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, Senator Tommy Tuberville called reliable broadband throughout the state,especially in rural areas, was "vital."

The Alabama Association of REALTORS, a branch of the Alabama REALTORS Foundation, has selected a dozen students throughout the state to receive scholarships that are being provided through the organization's education scholarship fund.

Sierra Pacific Windows, a California based high end window and door production company, has announced that it will be expanding into Alabama and opening a new manufacturing plant in Phenix City, Alabama.

Tuesday, Senator Tommy Tuberville joined a group of fellow legislators in introducing bipartisan legislation that is designed to curb the destruction that feral swine cause on farmland.

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has announced that on June 10th a "free fishing day" will take place throughout the state.

The Alabama House Military and Veterans Affairs Committee announced that is urging the state's congressional delegation to push for funding in order to expand the 117th Air Refueling Wing’s parking ramp which is located in Birmingham.

Huntsville has attained yet another accolade as it continues to grow and develop. US News and World Report has named Huntsville, Alabama as the second best place to live in the entire country.

Last week, the hemorrhaging of churches from the United Methodist Church (UMC)continued in drastic fashion. In Montgomery, the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the UMC saw 193 congregations depart in a 24 hour period.

It's official. The Yellowhammer State, in 2023, according to the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama,experienced the lowest ACT test scores in the state since 2015. Many educators blame the COVID pandemic, a time when schools were closed throughout the country, for the unfortunate statistic.

The Alabama House of Representatives passed the Alabama Property Protection Act Tuesday. The legislation if enacted would effectively ban Chinese citizens and entities from purchasing property within the Yellowhammer State.

Thursday, Sen. Tommy Tuberville revealed the existence of a memorandum that could pose a problem for Joe Biden's nominee for Labor Secretary, Julie Su. The discovery comes after Su refused to provide the memo as part of her Senate conformation process.

At a ceremony Wednesday in Montgomery, Jeff Norris, an educator from Oak Mountain Middle School became the 2023-2024 Alabama Teacher of the Year.

In 2005, a young girl from Mountain Brook, Alabama disappeared on a high school graduation trip to Aruba making headlines internationally. Natalee Holloway missed her flight back home to Birmingham on May 30, 2005 and has never been seen or heard from since. After her disappearance, a massive search ensued but nothing was ever found. Eventually, Holloway was declared legally dead in 2012.

One recent Faulkner graduate did not have the graduation day that he expected. Jay Tunstill, who was set to receive his MBA, departed from his Tennessee home with his family at around 3 am last Friday, in order to attend his graduation ceremony on Faulkner's campus that was scheduled to take place at 8 am.

In a push aimed to help train more truck drivers in the state of Alabama, Coca-Cola UNITED donated two 16-bay side-load, manual transmissions trucks to the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) at a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday.

In a time when many agricultural and manufacturing jobs are being exported out of the United States one Alabama family owned business is going against the grain and growing its own cotton and manufacturing its own products from that cotton.

The Birmingham Business Alliance (BBA) has announced that it has named a new CEO. Steve Ammons, an organization insider, is set to to to begin his new job on May 30th.