ALDI, a discount grocery chain with over 2,000 stores in the United States, announced Tuesday plans to build its Gulf Coast regional headquarters and distribution center in Loxley, Alabama. The new building will be 564,000 square feet and constitutes a $100 million investment for the company. ALDI says the regional HQ will bring 200 jobs […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced Monday that she is spending $170 million to enhance the coronavirus readiness of Alabama’s public schools. The funds come from the $1.9 billion Alabama received as part of the federal government’s CARES Act that was passed in an effort to stave off the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. According to […]

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill has given any voter wary of catching COVID-19 while voting the opportunity to vote absentee in this November’s general election. The Secretary of State is allowed during declared states of emergency to issue guidance to the state’s voters that addresses the change in circumstances caused by the emergency. “Amid […]

Any Alabama voter who wants to elect their chosen candidate for mayor and city councilperson next month can vote absentee if they want to avoid the risk of contracting the coronavirus. The announcement of the new policy was made on Monday by Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, who employed the same rule during Alabama’s […]

The U.S. Census determines how many electoral college votes and representatives in Congress a state gets, along with how much federal funding it receives. As of today, Alabama lags behind Tennessee and Kentucky in Census participation. The Census is composed of 10 questions and takes less than six minutes to complete. Any citizen who has […]

The United States Department of Agriculture announced Friday that it will be funding the construction of a 9,910-square-foot mental health facility in Greenville, Alabama, as part of a program designed to upgrade facilities in rural America. The total cost of the 16-bed forensic mental health facility will be $2,999,900. The USDA is loaning that amount […]

The Alabama Community College System (ACCS) announced Friday that it is encouraging each of its 24 member institutions to develop a hybrid system for the upcoming fall semester that emphasizes combining online instruction with traditional on-campus classes. The ACCS has issued a set of rules and guidelines, but each community college in Alabama is allowed […]

Governor Kay Ivey announced on Thursday that the State of Alabama is funding grants to make high-speed internet available in seven communities across the state. The seven grants together total $2.9 million, with the biggest of those, $1.3 million, going to eastern Cullman County. The money for the grants comes from the Alabama Broadband Accessibility […]

U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr has appointed Prim Escalona to serve as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Escalona steps into the role on an interim basis after Jay Town recently made the decision to step down and join the private sector. Escalona is a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College and the […]

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is urging Alabamians to shop local during this weekend’s sales tax holiday in an effort to support companies harmed by the coronavirus pandemic. “The pandemic is affecting all kinds of businesses, but it’s been especially hard on small, independent businesses,” NFIB state director Rosemary Elebash said in a […]

Students from Jefferson Davis High School Marching Band in Montgomery had their “America’s Got Talent” performance air on NBC last Tuesday night. The group, led by Band Director Brandon Howard, had become something of a phenomenon on the internet after clips of the group performing were widely shared. Driving interest has been Justin Heideman, the […]

Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday announced that all Alabamians will be required to wear a mask when in public and within six feet of others. The order goes into effect Thursday at 5:00 p.m. and is currently scheduled to continue until July 31. Ivey’s statewide order supersedes all local mask orders; the rules set by […]

Three high schools in Montgomery that are named after men who served in the Confederacy could receive new titles after a Tuesday night vote from the Montgomery County Board of Education. According to reporting done by the Montgomery Advertiser, the district is requesting a waiver from a state committee created by the Alabama Memorial Preservation […]

MOBILE  — Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions conceded with grace to newly crowned Republican senatorial nominee Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday night. Sessions immediately threw his support behind his former opponent and called on his supporters to focus on beating U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) in November. In his concession speech on Tuesday, there was […]

MOBILE — Mobile County Commissioner Jerry Carl defeated former State Senator Bill Hightower (R-Mobile) on Tuesday night to clinch the Republican nomination in Alabama’s First Congressional District. The district, which occupies all of Alabama’s coastal southwest corner, was decided by Carl’s large margin in Mobile County, where he bested Hightower by around 5,000 votes. The […]

The Montgomery County Board of Education on Tuesday plans to consider a motion brought forth by community members that would push to rename three local high schools named after Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Sidney Lanier. Efforts to rename buildings, institutions and traditions that get their names from Confederate history have been […]

One of America’s largest egg producers donated 280,800 eggs to help feed Alabama’s least fortunate citizens last week. The donation was made by Cal-Maine foods, founded and headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, a company that by some measures accounts for a quarter of all egg consumption in the United States. Cal-Maine operates a facility in the […]

A man from Alabama’s Rocket City completed last week a 1,000-mile walk from his hometown to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in honor of George Floyd and the larger struggle for racial equality in America. Terry Willis has used the publicity from his march to help raise tens of thousands of dollars via a GoFundMe page. He says […]

In the waning days of the campaign, Mobile County Commissioner Jerry Carl has added the endorsements of four prominent elected officials in the southwest Alabama congressional district he seeks to represent. State Reps. Chip Brown (R-Hollinger’s Island) and Shane Stringer (R-Citronelle) threw their support behind Carl last week, followed by Daphne Mayor Dane Haygood and […]

The two candidates in Alabama’s other statewide race, a seat on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, are making their cases to Alabama Republicans ahead of Tuesday’s primary runoff election. Judge Beth Kellum, the incumbent in the race, is asking voters for a third term after first being elected in 2008. She is stressing her […]

Former Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin is suing for defamation the individuals involved in a 2018 news story in which a woman accused him of illegal activities, including statutory rape. The defendants listed in the suit include current Etowah County Sheriff Jonathan Horton, Oneonta Police Chief Charles Clifton, the parent company of Alabama Media Group’s […]

The Five Guys employees who reportedly refused to serve members of the Daphne Police Department have been fired and suspended, according to a statement from the company. Yellowhammer News detailed earlier this week a report first made by WKRG that three Daphne police officers were refused service at a Five Guys location. The national headquarters […]

U.S. Attorney Jay Town announced Friday that he is resigning his post with the Department of Justice and will take a job with a defense contractor in Huntsville later this year. Town, 46, has been serving as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama since he was nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed […]

Clanton’s longtime mayor, Billie Joe Driver, died on Thursday at age 84 after being hospitalized for a week with COVID-19. The news was first reported by WSFA in Montgomery. Clanton Mayor Pro-Tem Bobby Cook confirmed the news to CBS42. Driver had been hospitalized at St. Vincent’s in Birmingham for the last week. He was first […]