The Biden administration on Tuesday announced that Nivory Gordon, Jr. will serve as the Alabama state director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development. President Joe Biden’s announcement included a string of regional and state appointments of Rural Development state directors and Farm Service Agency (FSA) state executive directors. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack […]

Northrop Grumman on Tuesday announced the opening of its new Cummings Research Park facility, further expanding the defense juggernaut’s operations in the Rocket City. The work conducted at the company’s new facility will support work with the U.S. Air Force Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Program, the nation’s next generation intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system. […]

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday along party lines 219-206 to temporarily extend the federal debt limit to early December. With the Democrat-controlled Congress now having reached a short-term agreement to increase the nation’s debt ceiling, the measure now heads to the desk of President Joe Biden for his signature. The U.S. Senate last […]

BIRMINGHAM — U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) efforts to prohibit a controversial Internal Revenue Service (IRS) policy proposed by the Biden administration has garnered increased interest from consumers and banking industry leaders alike. Alabama’s junior senator on Tuesday held a press conference with representatives from various associations and financial institutions promoting Tuberville’s “Protecting Financial Privacy […]

Natural graphite development company Westwater Resources, Inc. announced that its board of directors had approved expenditures of $202 million to be appropriated toward the construction plan for phase one of the Coosa Graphite Project in Kellyton. The project to construct a first-of-its-kind advanced graphite processing plant was announced earlier this year. The plant is expected […]

Fresh off a historic victory in House District 73’s special election earlier this year, State Rep. Kenneth Paschal (R-Pelham) on Tuesday announced that he will seek to serve a full term in the Alabama House of Representatives. Paschal was successful in his bid to fulfill the remainder of former State Rep. Matt Fridy’s (R-Montevallo) term. […]

A federal judge has refused the state of Alabama’s request to dismiss the issue of staffing cited in the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit against the state’s prison system, according to the Associated Press (AP). In considering the motion by state lawyers, AP reports that U.S. District Judge David Proctor agreed with the state’s […]

The top prize for the Alabama Black Belt Adventures Best Fish Photo Contest’s beginners division was awarded to three-year-old Spur Knight of Valley Grande. For the Knight family, fishing is certainly a family affair. Chase Knight and his son Spur, accompanied by his older brother Gauge, age seven, were fishing at the Dallas County Public […]

The board of directors of Birmingham-headquartered holding company Altec, Inc. has announced the promotion of Allen Ritchie to president and CEO. In 2007, Ritchie joined the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Altec says the newly-appointed company head holds a deep understanding of manufacturing and distribution, financial services and service technology organizations. […]

Leidos, parent company of Huntsville-based Dynetics, earlier this year announced that it had instituted a vaccine lottery with up to $1 million to be shared among 10 randomly selected workers who become vaccinated against COVID-19. Rather than mandating vaccination among workforce, many private sector companies have taken an opposite approach to that of government by […]

NASA has announced the selection of 60 teams that will compete in the Student Launch competition held at Huntsville’s Marshall Space Flight Center, which is part of a series of student challenges relating to the agency’s Artemis program. The nine-month competition will feature teams from 22 states and the territory of Puerto Rico. The challenge […]

Brock Colvin on Monday announced that he will seek the Republican nomination to the Alabama House of Representatives, District 26. The fifth-generation Marshall Countian is a graduate of Albertville High School and attended Snead Community College in Boaz. Colvin is an alum of the University of Alabama, where he double majored in finance and economics. […]

U.S. Reps. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) and Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) on Thursday penned a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra requesting clarity on the department’s move to alter the ordering process of monoclonal antibody treatments. HHS recently implemented a change in how health care providers may obtain the antibody […]

U.S. Senate hopeful Katie Britt on Friday announced that her campaign had raised over $3.75 million in funds since she launched her candidacy in June of this year. In a matter of four months, Britt has surpassed the fundraising numbers of all Alabama Republican U.S. Senate candidates in the 2020 primary and runoff elections combined, […]

HUNTSVILLE — The U.S. Space & Rocket Center on Friday held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Space Camp Operations Center. The North Alabama educational space exploration staple announced that it is naming its new operations center for Boeing, a longtime financial supporter of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Boeing is making a $3.5 […]

As controversy continues to surround U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks’ (R-Huntsville) criticism of the Alabama Farmers Federation (ALFA), elected officials across the state have jumped to the organization’s defense. The feud between Brooks and the federation amplified over the past week as the congressman alleged ALFA to be in support of “cheap foreign labor,” a charge […]

Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) effort to pass his bill, the “Protecting Financial Privacy Act,” which would prohibit a controversial Internal Revenue Service (IRS) proposal to monitor banking activity consisting of $600 or greater from going into effect. Presently, the requirement for financial institutions to report banking transactions to the […]

The Alabama Forestry Association (AFA) on Thursday announced the organization’s endorsement of State Sen. Randy Price (R-Opelika) in his campaign for reelection, serving District 13. Price is a graduate of Southern Union State Community College and is the owner of a homebuilding and commercial trucking business. The Opelika resident also owns and operates a cattle […]

The campus of Troy University in the summer of 2022 is set to play host to Girls State as the leadership program returns to the South Alabama school for the first time since 2012. Girls State, the American Legion Auxiliary, provides a hands-on, leadership-driven learning experience for students, offering citizenship training and exposure to the […]

The public feud between U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) and the Alabama Farmers Federation (ALFA) intensified over the past week as the statewide agricultural organization announced that its political arm, FarmPAC, had endorsed his primary opponent in Alabama’s 2022 race for the U.S. Senate, Katie Britt. In response to the endorsement, during a series of […]

Two officers with Regions Bank have been recognized by American Banker Magazine for their contributions to the Birmingham-based financial institution and the banking industry as a whole. Chief strategy and client experience officer Kate Danella was named among the magazine’s “Top 25 Women to Watch” for the third consecutive year. Chief operations and technology officer […]

The Regions Foundation, a non-profit initiative of Regions Bank, announced on Wednesday that it had awarded a $57,000 grant to Wallace State Community College Selma (WCCS) for the new Shift2Success Manufacturing and Ready to Work Training Program. Shift2Success, a workforce development initiative, assists students with job interview preparation and resume writing, as well as technical […]

Several hundred production team members could be hired as an addition to Mercedes-Benz International’s (MBUSI) manufacturing operations in Tuscaloosa. MBUSI has launched a hiring campaign which seeks to fill the positions by the year’s end, according to the company. The hires will pave the way for MBUSI to meet its consumers’ increased demand for the […]

The National Cemetery Administration has awarded the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs (ADVA) a $5 million grant, which will be utilized to expand the Alabama State Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Spanish Fort. The grant is awarded through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Cemetery Grants Program. The award will fund the first of 10 […]