In a high-profile announcement from the Oval Office of the White House, President Donald Trump announced that U.S. Space Command’s permanent headquarters will be located in Huntsville.  Joined by Alabama’s U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and Alabama Congressmen Mike Rogers, Robert Aderholt, Gary Palmer, […]

Statewide 2nd Amendment rights advocacy organization, BamaCarry, has announced endorsements in two GOP primary races in Alabama’s 2026 election cycle. The group formally endorsed State Auditor Andrew Sorrell in his campaign for Alabama Secretary of State. Sorrell, a former member of the Alabama House of Representatives, is a vocal advocate of the 2nd Amendment. During […]

In a political matchup currently saturated by talk of campaign finance, Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey announced Monday that she has loaned her campaign $500,000. Casey, who has been a local district attorney since 2010, is running statewide for the first time against former Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice Jay Mitchell and Katherine Robertson, […]

Nicole Jones Wadsworth is still running for Lt. Governor of Alabama in 2026. At a recent campaign stop in Huntsville, Wadsworth expressed confidence that she’ll somehow come out on top. “Any of you who know me or know my race, it became really libelous, really quickly.” Wadsworth is seemingly making a reference to her botched […]

Two adults were killed and seven children were injured after a side-by-side ATV carrying nine people collided with another vehicle, overturned and struck a tree at Indian Mountain ATV Park on Saturday afternoon. According to Cherokee County officials, the crash happened around 3:45 p.m. in a remote section of the off-road park. A male driver […]

Alabama shoppers will see two major sales tax changes at the register starting today. The state’s sales tax on groceries drops from 3% to 2%, and a new three-year exemption removes the 4% state sales tax from a list of baby, maternity and menstrual products. Under the grocery change, the 2% rate applies to “food” […]

Just before Labor Day weekend, bombs started dropping in the 2026 race for Alabama Attorney General.  In a campaign announcement this morning, Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell publicly called out opponent Katherine Robertson for accepting a $150,000 campaign contribution from a familiar name in Alabama politics: Hugh F. Culverhouse, Jr.  “This is the […]

Two days after emerging as the demonstrable winner of the Birmingham mayoral race, Randall Woodfin made it clear he isn’t finished with the politics. State Rep. Juandalynn Givan’s (D-Birmingham) challenge to a third term for Woodfin devolved into one of the ugliest and most vindictive citywide campaigns Birmingham has seen in years. From filing FCC […]

Alabama signaled it will appeal a federal ruling that struck down part of its State Senate map and asked the court to pause its order while the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a closely watched redistricting case from Louisiana later this fall. In a joint status report filed Wednesday, lawyers for Secretary of State Wes […]

Georgia and Mississippi are joining forces with Alabama on a new powerhouse partnership to keep the Southeast at the forefront of automotive and battery manufacturing. The new partnership brings together the University of Alabama, the University of Georgia and Mississippi State University with the backing of governors from all three states, as well as Southern […]

House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter has appointed State Rep. James Lomax (R-Huntsville) to the House Committee on Rules — effective immediately. “While it is uncommon for a freshman member of the House to be appointed to the Rules Committee, Rep. Lomax’s knowledge of the legislative process far exceeds his time in office,” Speaker Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) said. […]

On Wednesday, Alabama Speaker of the House Nathaniel Ledbetter appointed State Rep. Troy Stubbs (R-Wetumpka) to Vice Chairman of the House Committee on County and Municipal Government. The position was previously held by Debbie Wood, who resigned her seat earlier this summer. “Rep. Stubbs has served on the House Committee on County and Municipal Government […]

Alexander City’s three-way mayor’s race is heading to a runoff after no candidate secured a majority on Tuesday. With all six precincts reported, incumbent Mayor Curtis “Woody” Baird led with 1,482 votes (42.7%), followed by businessman and pastor Mike Densmore with 1,086 (31.3%) and City Council President Audrey “Buffy” Colvin with 901 (26.0%). That’s 3,469 […]

Eddie Smith was elected Opelika’s next mayor on Tuesday, defeating challenger Raven Harvis and Herman G. Barnes III to succeed longtime Mayor Gary Fuller, who is retiring after 21 years in office.  Unofficial returns show Smith with 4,154 votes (about 56%) to Harvis’s 3,155 (about 43%) and Barnes’s 115.  “Thank you to everyone who came […]

Hoover voters decisively chose longtime police chief Nick Derzis as their next mayor Tuesday, ending Frank Brocato’s two-term tenure. Unofficial returns posted by the city show Derzis taking 9,172 votes to Brocato’s 7,322 – 55.6% to 44.4%. With a clear majority, no runoff is required. Brocato conceded Tuesday night, congratulating his “friend” and successor as […]

Former district judge Spiro Cheriogotis and State Rep. Barbara Drummond (D-Mobile) have advanced to a September 23 runoff for Mayor of Mobile after neither candidate cleared a majority in Tuesday’s four-way, nonpartisan election. The field also included County Commissioner Connie Hudson and former Mobile Chief of Police Paul Prine. Unofficial returns with 97% of precincts […]

U.S. Department of Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy on Tuesday threatened to pull tens of millions in federal highway safety dollars from several states unless they start enforcing the Trump administration’s English-language proficiency rules for commercial truck drivers.  Sec. Duffy, as well as the Alabama Trucking Association, believe this hard line enforcement is an overdue next […]

Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Garlan Gudger named State Sen. Keith Kelley (R-Anniston) the new co-chair of the Legislature’s Joint Sunset Committee, a panel that decides whether dozens of state boards and commissions should be continued, consolidated, or shut down. The appointment came as the committee begins requiring people who testify to do so under […]

Stoking renewed pressure on Alabama’s redistricting process, a federal court judge ruled on Friday that Alabama’s 2021 State Senate map violates the Voting Rights Act in the Montgomery area – but not in Huntsville.  The ruling bars the state from using the current plan in future elections. As it did in 2023, the court said […]

U.S. Senator Katie Britt is contributing $10,000, the maximum amount allowable, from her Alabama First leadership PAC to State Rep. Rhett Marques’ (R-Enterprise) congressional campaign. “Rhett is a great friend and a strong conservative fighter who has always had my back and President Trump’s,” Senator Britt (R-Montgomery) said in a statement to Yellowhammer News on […]

State Rep. Rhett Marques (R-Enterprise) announced Thursday he’s running for Alabama’s 1st Congressional District in 2026. Marques says he’s ready to scale the work he’s done on the state level all the way to Washington — as a pro-Trump conservative Republican. He enters a field of contenders to fill the seat currently held by U.S. […]

Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security is bringing two heavyweight national-security figures onto its advisory board. Former U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary under President Donald Trump, Kirstjen Nielsen, now president of Lighthouse Strategies, and Auburn alumnus James Hoskins, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence leader who built Scitor Corporation into […]

Conservative Republican and longtime cotton and peanut farmer Garrett Dixon launched a campaign for the open Alabama House District 38 seat today. Dixon says he’ll take a business approach to Montgomery and be a voice for rural communities in Chambers and Lee counties. Dixon is lifelong resident of the district, a Smiths Station High School […]

On Monday morning, Alabama Speaker of the House of Representatives Nathaniel Ledbetter endorsed his friend and colleague, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) for Governor of Alabama in the 2026 GOP primary election. “Alabama is winning like never before, and our state’s continued prosperity hinges upon its next governor being a strong conservative who will always […]