The federal government on Friday morning announced that businesses who received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of $50,000 or less have a simplified process to seek forgiveness for their outstanding balance. According to publicly available data, 70,331 PPP loans worth a combined $6,245,496,446 were distributed to companies in Alabama between when the program opened […]

Ahead of what many expect to be one of the highest turnout elections in modern history, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is providing guidance to those wishing to serve as a poll watcher on Election Day. Poll watchers are members of a political party who are allowed inside a precinct while voters cast their […]

The Alabama Beverage Control (ABC) Board is hosting a sweepstakes during the month of October in which winners will have a chance to purchase highly desired liquors such as Pappy Van Winkle. The contest is currently ongoing and ends at 5:00 p.m. on October 25. Entrants must be at least 21 years of age, and […]

President Donald Trump on Wednesday shared a video in which he effusively praised the COVID-19 treatment Regeneron, which is the subject of a clinical trial at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). “I went in, I wasn’t feeling so hot,” Trump says of his recent stay at Walter Reed Medical Center, where he received […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Thursday rescinded her executive order requiring all non-residents to leave the state’s coastal areas as updated projections indicate Hurricane Delta is unlikely to bring more than rain to the Yellowhammer State. On Tuesday, the governor had ordered an evacuation of all tourists and visitors in the Gulf area when it […]

Troy University announced this week that it will receive a $3.5 million grant for the federal government to study how personal protective equipment (PPE) can best be recycled. Putting the money to use will be TROY’s Center for Materials and Manufacturing Sciences. The university says America generated 100 million tons of medical waste in 2019 […]

Around 400 cities and towns across Alabama conducted runoff elections for mayor and city council on Tuesday, including larger cities such as Selma, Decatur, Homewood, Florence and Daphne. Races on the ballot Tuesday were between the top two vote-getters during the initial August 25 municipal elections. Most of the elections were for open positions vacated […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday declared a State of Emergency in response to Hurricane Delta, a storm expected to make landfall in the United States between Thursday night and Friday morning. Mobile and Baldwin Counties are most at risk in Alabama; both are within the possible paths of the storm, according to projections. The […]

The new Alabama School for Cyber Technology and Engineering (ASCTE) in Huntsville is the first high school of its kind in the United States. Yellowhammer News recently got an inside look at how it is operating, and what its plans are for the future. ASCTE is currently midway through its first semester with students in […]

Global Resources International (GRI), a company that makes medical and industrial products, is investing $9.5 million to open a new manufacturing plant in Dothan that will employ 70 workers. GRI has long had a presence in Houston County. Eastern Technologies Inc. (ETI), a GRI subsidiary that warehouses and facilitates distribution of GRI products, is based […]

The U.S. Census Bureau has moved the deadline for individuals to respond to the Census; it will now occur on the last day in October. The end date for collecting Census responses has changed multiple times in 2020, with the Trump administration and federal courts going back and forth over the proper day to stop […]

Dr. Jane Grimwood, one of the most cited researchers in the world, uses her knowledge of life’s tiniest building blocks to achieve big things. Grimwood works at Huntsville’s HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, where she is a co-director of the Genome Sequencing Center. She leads a staff 0f 25 researchers, along with co-director Jeremy Schmutz, who […]

A scientist in the federal government on Thursday summarized preliminary findings of the Great Red Snapper Count that indicate the famous fish species is much more numerous than previously believed. U.S. Representative Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) said in a statement that the data indicates Alabama “can increase opportunities for snapper fishermen without danger to the health […]

MONTGOMERY — The top federal official in charge of the 2020 U.S. Census visited Montgomery on Friday morning as part of a last-minute push to get citizens to fill out their Census forms ahead of the October 5 deadline. Census Bureau Director Dr. Steven Dillingham told Yellowhammer News at the event that 3,000 Census employees […]

U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) on Thursday introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives termed the “American Jobs First Act” that aims to protect American workers from less expensive employees imported from other countries. Brooks believes the United States should make impactful changes to its immigration policy, especially the visa program that allows […]

U.S. Representative Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) on Thursday pushed back on the idea that New York handled the coronavirus pandemic well, arguing the state could learn from how it was dealt with in Alabama. Byrne’s initial comments were posted to Twitter in response to a report by the New York Times that showed New York City, […]

Since taking the reins as CEO of Shipt in 2019, Kelly Caruso has expanded and improved one of Alabama’s most successful technology companies. She is just getting started. Under her leadership, Shipt has hired hundreds more employees, improved its offerings to customers and weathered the onslaught of demand brought by the coronavirus pandemic. Its logo […]

The Alabama Nursing Home Association (ANHA) has announced a plan to resume in-person visits after Governor Kay Ivey announced a revision to the state health order on Wednesday morning that made them possible. Visits to nursing homes had been prevented since March in an effort to prevent coronavirus transmission among the population most vulnerable to […]

The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board voted on Tuesday afternoon to allow bars and other locations with a liquor license to resume selling alcohol after 11:00 p.m., effective immediately. During the last week of July, the ABC Board banned sales after 11:00 in an effort to help bring down the state’s COVID-19 numbers, which were […]

The State of Alabama has received a grant from the federal government worth $17,827,178.11 that will go towards workforce retraining efforts for workers displaced by the coronavirus pandemic. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, whose office announced the news on Tuesday afternoon, said in a statement that the grant will help “reskill the more than 700,000 Alabamians […]

First Presbyterian Church in Wetumpka, which stood for 162 years before being destroyed in a January 2019 tornado, completed a complete rebuild this year. The new structure looks identical to what existed before, with its painted white wood siding and its trademark green shutters on the windows. According to reporting from WSFA, the first worship […]

MONTGOMERY — Alabama of Secretary of State John Merrill on Tuesday unveiled a new initiative through which Alabamians can show their support for veterans and democracy with one gesture. The program, titled “I Vote In Honor of a Veteran,” allows citizens to submit a written testimonial about a meaningful veteran in their life on Alabamavotes.gov. […]

LOXLEY – United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue visited Alabama on Monday to understand for himself the scope of the damage visited upon agricultural operations in Baldwin County, the area of the state hardest hit by Hurricane Sally. Perdue took in the damage suffered by Underwood Pecan Farm in Summerdale and participated in a […]

President Donald Trump on Saturday made official his intent to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the seat on the Supreme Court of the United States once held by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Barrett is widely beloved by conservatives across the United States, especially for her writing and past decisions on abortion. […]