HOOVER — At the 2018 “Women of Impact” event held at the Renaissance Birmingham Ross Bridge Golf Resort and Spa on Thursday, Yellowhammer News honored Joann Bashinsky, the vice president of 1996 SYB Inc., and also the vice president of the Bashinsky Foundation Inc., with a Lifetime Service Award. Bashinsky was given the award for “a […]

HOOVER – Thursday at the 2018 “Women of Impact” event held at the Renaissance Birmingham Ross Bridge Golf Resort and Spa, Yellowhammer News honored Gov. Kay Ivey, Alabama’s second female governor. Upon accepting the award, Ivey took a few moments to remember the state’s first female governor, Gov. Lurleen Wallace, who also served as the […]

Tuesday on Auburn radio’s WANI, former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville gave his endorsement to Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle in the race for governor. In an appearance on the station’s “Auburn/Opelika This Morning with Bob Wooddy,” Tuberville explained how he came to the conclusion Battle would be best suited to be Alabama’s next chief […]

OPP — Over the weekend, South Alabama’s Covington County hosted the 58th Rattlesnake Rodeo, an annual event that highlights the Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake billed as one of that area’s leading attractions. For two days, attendees of this family-oriented occasion held at Opp’s Channell-Lee Stadium were treated to snake races, a buck dancing contest, a greasy pole climb, […]

ATHENS — For the last 30 years, evangelist Scott Dawson has preached the gospel of Jesus Christ to crowds far and wide. Now the founder of the Birmingham-based Scott Dawson Evangelistic Association is making a foray into the bloodsport of Alabama politics and seeking the state’s top job. It’s Thursday afternoon at Athens, Ala.’s Square Clock […]

HUNTSVILLE — For the last several decades, Alabama’s northernmost major city has been one of the state’s crown jewels for economic development. From rockets in the 1950s to landing a Toyota-Mazda joint venture manufacturing facility earlier this year, little stays the same in Madison County. For the last 10 years, a number of Huntsville’s achievements […]

Tuesday on Talk 99.5’s “Matt and Aunie Show,” show co-host Matt Murphy and Republican Alabama Attorney General hopeful Alice Martin had a heated back-and-forth over Martin’s claim she had not “interviewed” for the Alabama attorney general vacancy that opened up after then-Attorney General Luther Strange was appointed to the U.S. Senate. Martin had raised the […]

With Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-Miss.) departure from the U.S. Senate on April 1, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) is set to become the next chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. That has some on the Georgia side of the long-running water war over the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa, and Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basins between Florida and Alabama worried Congress will […]

PELHAM – Monday before taking the stage at the Pelham Civic Complex to stump for Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott Dawson, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) offered Yellowhammer News his insight into the upcoming gubernatorial race and why he thought Dawson was the best choice in that race. Huckabee explained that given the circumstances of disgraced […]

PELHAM — The threat of severe weather didn’t keep rallygoers from attending Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott Dawson’s campaign kickoff rally on Monday. Before for a crowd of a few hundred at the Pelham Civic Complex, Dawson hosted an event that featured syndicated morning drive talkers Rick Burgess and Bill “Bubba” Bussey of “The Rick and Bubba […]

Talladega Superspeedway announced today that the company 1000Bulbs.com would sponsor its October NASCAR Monster Energy Cup, which is one of sanctioning body’s 10 “playoff” events that determine who is the champion of its premier series. The event scheduled for October 14 will be known as the 1000Bulbs.com 500. In previous years, the event had gone with […]

In a scathing attack aimed at Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook), The Root columnist Michael Harriot criticized Alabama’s junior senator for his vote on a measure to roll back some provisions of the Obama-era Dodd-Frank law that imposed regulations on the financial sector. The bill passed in the U.S. Senate by a 67-31 margin and was […]

You know the place – a dominant courthouse, a few oak trees, a park and a few businesses with storefronts along a sidewalk that is sheltered by awnings. Perhaps there is a post office, two or three churches, a museum or a library. Throw in a handful of offices, a diner or a coffee shop, […]

In a recorded statement posted on Mobile Fox affiliate WALA’s Bob Grip’s Twitter account on Wednesday, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) urged students participating in the school walkout earlier in the day to stay in the classroom. According to Byrne, when students participate in walkouts, it allows those that engage in these violent acts to win. […]

During a speech Monday to the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) declared that Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) being elected to the U.S. Senate last December “was a major loss to our country.” “From our perspective, that was a major loss to our country,” Brooks said to attendees as recorded by […]

In an interview published on Friday with The Baldwin Times’ Cliff McCollum, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) validated speculation that he is considering a 2020 run for the U.S. Senate. “I’m actively looking at it,” Byrne said to the Times. “I’ve got a lot of things I’ve got to do in addition to that. We don’t take […]

    (Opinion) Help wanted: Alabama-based sports blog with liberal bias actively seeks candidates to join Facebook group for month-long “moderated” discussion about guns. As part of its ongoing effort to make the world a better place, AL(dot)com announced a new initiative on Tuesday to get to the bottom of this whole gun thing once […]

  Late Tuesday, Sens. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) and Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) announced a $12.7 million federal grant for the Port of Mobile. According to a release from Jones’ office, the grant will be for improvements at the Port of Mobile, including the conversion of an abandoned bulk handling facility into a roll-on/roll-off mobile vehicle processing […]

  Monday evening on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) honored slain Mobile Police Officer Justin Billa, who was shot and killed last week while apprehending a murder suspect. Byrne urged Americans to “take time to say thank you” to local police officers and also made mention of Billa’s surviving […]

  SELMA — On Sunday, thousands marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the March 7, 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march. The 1965 march was considered a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement. John Lewis, now a Democrat U.S. congressman representing Georgia’s fifth congressional district, and Hosea Williams, led 600 marchers from […]

  Last month, Alabama Media Group reporter Connor Sheets resurrected the decades-old controversy with his report on how an interpretation of a Depression-era statute allows Alabama’s sheriffs to pocket any extra money left over after purchasing food for inmates from funds designated for jail food. Sheets singled out Monroe County Sheriff Tom Tate, who was […]

  (Opinion) Recently, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin made some mostly irrelevant headlines by suggesting Delta Air Lines could consider the Magic City as a home after the Georgia legislature voted to punish the airline for cutting ties with the National Rifle Association by eliminating a fuel tax break. Delta has not shown any desire to […]

  Thursday on Birmingham Talk 99.5’s “Matt & Aunie” show, Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) criticized President Donald Trump for his attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions a day earlier. A day earlier, Trump had taken to Twitter to protest Sessions’ reliance on Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report rather than pursuing suspected wrongdoing […]

  On Wednesday, Gardendale Mayor Stan Hogeland and Gardendale Board of Education President Michael Hogue announced the city would not appeal a federal court’s ruling disallowing the city to break from the Jefferson County School System and form its own system. Last month, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals deemed the […]