Alabama Governor Kay Ivey released a letter to the heads of all state government agencies on Tuesday with guidance on how to deal with the likely eventuality of coronavirus making it to Alabama. Ivey asked each department head to make sure they have a plan to continue the offering of services should the virus be […]

MONTGOMERY — State Rep. Steve Clouse (R-Ozark) filed a bill on Tuesday that would amend Alabama’s constitution to create a lottery. The constitutional amendment is being co-sponsored by House Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia), Majority Leader Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville), Minority Leader Anthony Daniels (D-Huntsville) and over 70 other members of the House. HB 418 would put […]

MONTGOMERY — State Senator Rodger Smitherman (D-Birmingham) on Tuesday forcefully spoke against an effort in the Alabama Senate to strengthen the penalty provision of the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017. The legislation being debated is sponsored by State Senator Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa), who wants to change the penalty for those who are found to […]

The University of Alabama at Birmingham will host the 2020 Alabama State Spelling Bee on March 21 at 12:00 p.m. The competition will be between about 55 students in grades 4-8 from every corner of the Yellowhammer State. The students competing are the cream of the crop in Alabama; over 780 schools in the state […]

Scientists at the Huntsville company BioDynami have developed a new product that will allow people to sequence their DNA in less time for less money. The product, which is called the NGS RNA Library Prep Kit, was developed through multitudinous experiments and has been tested on several platforms. BioDynami is located within the HudsonAlpha Institute […]

A new poll released this week shows former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville with a big lead heading into the runoff on March 31. The poll, which sampled 645 likely GOP primary voters from March 6-8, shows Tommy Tuberville at 52% with former Attorney General Jeff Sessions at 40%. The margin of error for the […]

In a ranking published this week, Site Selection magazine placed Montgomery ninth among all Tier 2 metro areas for corporate investment in 2019. The publication defines Tier 2 metro areas as an economic area that has between 200,000 and 1,000,000 people. The methodology for the ranking was the number of projects in an area that […]

State Representative Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) announced Monday he is endorsing Jerry Carl’s campaign for Congress. Carl and former State Senator Bill Hightower (R-Mobile) are currently in a runoff for the Republican nomination for Alabama’s First Congressional District. Pringle, a former competitor in the AL-01 congressional race, placed third in the March 3 primary, garnering 19.23% […]

Governor Kay Ivey has established a task force to deal with the imminent arrival of COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus. The group is mostly composed of high-level officials from the government of Alabama’s executive and legislative branches. It also includes health experts from Alabama’s universities and high-level private sector executives whose industries will be […]

The Alabama Technology Foundation (ATF) is hosting its first-ever conference this spring in Montgomery. From April 22-24 at the Renaissance in Alabama’s capital city, people interested in the future of technology in the Yellowhammer State will be able to gather and better inform themselves. The gathering has been named the “Alabama Business Technology Conference.” The […]

U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) said Thursday in a news release that he is “pleased” with the passage of the emergency supplemental funding package he helped author that will provide funds to help fight the spread of the coronavirus and treat victims. The effort passed the House of Representatives Wednesday by a vote of 415-2; […]

Fledging, a young computer hardware company based in Birmingham, announced a new device charger on Thursday that they claim is smaller and more efficient than the rest of its competitors on the market. The name of the charger is the VITE. The company is seeking to crowdfund the device’s manufacture and distribution. Fledging says that […]

Republican Jerry Carl’s campaign for Congress received an endorsement from former competitor Wes Lambert on Wednesday. Lambert, a restauranteur who lives in Spanish Fort, finished fourth place on Tuesday night in the Republican primary for Alabama’s First Congressional District. Carl, a Mobile County commissioner, placed first in the primary by a slim margin over former […]

Alabama senior U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) announced Wednesday that he and a bipartisan group from both houses of Congress have struck a deal to spend $7.767 billion to fight the coronavirus and help treat its victims. The funds are more than triple the original request by the Trump administration, which was $2.5 billion. According […]

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Glassdoor both published rankings recently that mentioned the Birmingham area of Alabama as one of the nation’s hottest job markets. WSJ did a number of calculations on America’s 53 metropolitan areas with more than 1,000,000 people, and Birmingham came in with the 12th lowest unemployment rate at 3.0%. Glassdoor.com, […]

MOBILE — Mobile County Commissioner Jerry Carl and former State Senator Bill Hightower (R-Mobile) will face each other in a runoff election on March 31 to decide who will be the Republican nominee in Alabama’s First Congressional District. Both campaigns significantly outpaced State Rep. Chris Pringle (R-Mobile), who finished over 18 percentage points behind the […]

Former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville and former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions are heading to a runoff in the Republican race to face U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) in the November General Election. In Alabama’s Republican U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday (as of 97.80% reporting), Tuberville garnered 33.39%, followed by Sessions (31.65%), […]

Birmingham-based Hibbett Sports this year is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the company’s founding by giving away a grand prize of 12 months worth of sneakers to one lucky fan. The grand prize will come in the form of 12 $250 Hibbett gift cards and one pair of Apple AirPods. In addition to the grand […]

Site Selection Magazine has named Cullman as one of its top “micropolitan” cities in the United States. The methodology used by Site Selection for its micropolitan rankings includes the number of capital investments, hiring increases and square footage expansions undertaken by businesses in an isolated economy powered by a city of more than 10,000 people […]

The University of Alabama’s athletics department announced Tuesday that David Ballou and Dr. Matt Rhea will be joining the ranks of assistant coaches to head football coach Nick Saban. Ballou will serve as the director of sports performance and Rhea will be the director of performance science. Both men’s roles will deal directly with the […]

Alabamians angling to catch some red snapper can begin baiting their hooks on May 22 this year, per an announcement from the Alabama Department of Conservation on Monday. According to the Department, the season will consist of all the four day weekends, Friday through Monday, between May 22 and July 19. The addition of Mondays […]

SELMA — Several thousand people descended on Selma, Alabama, on Sunday, including all but one of the major Democratic contenders for the 2020 presidential election. Fifty-five years earlier, a group of peaceful protesters marching in support of civil rights for black Americans were beaten by a group of white policemen and recently deputized white townspeople […]

SELMA — Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is currently seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, received the cold shoulder from some attendees at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma on Sunday. Bloomberg, along with every major Democratic contender except U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), was in Selma for the 55th anniversary […]

The progressive-minded People for the American Way spent $42,459 in February supporting U.S. Senator Doug Jones’ (D-AL) 2020 reelection bid, according to recent FEC filings. People for the American Way was founded in 1981 by television producer Norman Lear, who created shows like “One Day at a Time,” “The Jeffersons,” “Good Times” and “All in the […]