Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Thursday joined a massive bipartisan group of 52 state and territory attorneys general in calling on Congress to “expeditiously” close a deadly fentanyl loophole in federal law. This loophole plays a harmful part in the opioid epidemic by allowing fentanyl traffickers to stay a step ahead of law enforcement […]

HOOVER – Concerned Women for America’s eight-state bus tour made a much-anticipated stop in Alabama on Thursday, with citizens from around the state assembling in Hoover to voice their unequivocal support of President Donald Trump’s nominee to the United States Supreme Court — Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Approximately one hundred Alabamians, men and women, were in attendance […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey supports an appeal to the United States Supreme Court after a federal court on Wednesday struck down the state’s law that bans the most frequently used second-trimester abortion procedure. The law, passed in 2016 and entitled the Alabama Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Act, had previously been struck down by a […]

Alabama’s famed radio duo Rick Burgess and Bill “Bubba” Bussey are bringing their unique brand of conservative commentary and comedy to CRTV – the Conservative Review’s media company. CRTV announced in a press release that “The Rick & Bubba Show” will be simulcast through its online video subscription service. Current subscribers to the show will also receive […]

President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Birmingham-born Lt. General Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr. to take over U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and be promoted to a four-star general. CENTCOM, based in Tampa, is responsible for American military operations throughout the greater Middle East, including Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. McKenzie is currently the Director of the Joint […]

The University of North Alabama (UNA) announced on Wednesday that they are hosting prominent Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King to speak on their campus in Florence next month. King came into the national spotlight for his role in hot-button, liberal social justice causes, especially the Black Lives Matter movement. He was a leading voice in […]

Alabama Republicans voiced their optimism after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday proposed a replacement to the Obama administration’s so-called “Clean Power Plan.” The state’s attorney general and public service commissioners will thoroughly review the new proposal’s impact on consumers. The replacement, entitled the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule, will reduce greenhouse gas […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced he was “disappointed” and “carefully considering” an appeal to the United States Supreme Court after a federal court on Wednesday struck down Alabama’s law that bans the most frequently used second-trimester abortion procedure. The law, passed in 2016 and entitled the Alabama Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Act, had previously […]

Democratic gubernatorial nominee and Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox campaigned alongside former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman in Selma on Tuesday. Siegelman is a convicted felon who was released from federal prison last year after serving approximately six years. He reportedly is still unable vote in the state. According to the Selma Times-Journal, after Maddox gave his speech on […]

Rep. Mo Brooks (AL-5) strongly criticized liberal immigration policies after an illegal immigrant from Mexico confessed on Tuesday to kidnapping and killing Mollie Tibbetts, a student at the University of Iowa, while she was jogging in her small hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, age 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in […]

Senator Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) announced today in a press release that the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $3,087,090 to Auburn University “for research and the development of techniques to improve the additive manufacturing industry.” Additive manufacturing is a more accurate term for the professional process known as “3D […]

The University of Alabama football program was treated to a visit Monday by Tuscaloosa’s native-son and boxer Deontay Wilder, who stressed the importance of teamwork and brotherhood. Nicknamed “The Bronze Bomber,” Wilder has been the reigning World Boxing Council heavyweight champion since 2015, boasting a career record of 40-0 with 39 knockouts. “If you look to […]

After a video recently went viral on social media depicting American election equipment being easily hacked at this summer’s Def Con hacking conference, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill told Yellowhammer News that it is “unconscionable” that anyone would give the video “any credence.” At @defcon hacking conference and just learned how easy it is […]

Republican Rep. Bradley Byrne (AL-1) on Tuesday hosted a town hall in the Old Monroe County Courthouse of “To Kill a Mockingbird” fame. This came as part of Byrne’s “Better Off Now” town hall tour, wherein the Congressman is discussing how Alabamians are better off now “thanks to a booming economy, stronger military and safer […]

Auburn University’s football program on Tuesday posted a video of school basketball legend Charles Barkley giving a speech to the team as they continue preseason preparations. “I came here in 1981,” Barkley told the players. “And it was the best decision I ever made in my life.” He continued, “When I travel the world, people […]

Huntsville’s HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology announced on Tuesday that one of their associate companies, CFD Research, partnered with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities during a two-week course designed to “teach, inspire and involve” high school students in CFD’s antibiotic discovery process. The results from the students’ research in Maryland […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday proposed a replacement to the Obama Administration’s so-called “Clean Power Plan,” and Alabama’s coal industry rejoiced, calling the news “a victory for Alabama.” The replacement, entitled the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by establishing emission guidelines while still allowing the states individually […]

Alabama leaders celebrated after the state announced its highest ever employment numbers for the third month in a row. Nearly 30,000 more Alabamians are employed since the start of the year, and wages and salaries are up, too. “We’ve done it AGAIN Alabama!” Gov. Kay Ivey said on Twitter. Republican leaders in the Yellowhammer State pointed to good, […]

Incumbent Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) slammed his Democratic opponent as “socialist” and “extreme” after FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver’s highly-touted political forecasting website, projected that the incumbent Brooks will be reelected in Alabama’s Fifth Congressional District. The site predicts Brooks will prevail with 63.5 percent of the vote compared to Peter Joffrion’s 36.5 percent. As far as the odds […]

In a viral video posted Sunday on Twitter, University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban defined toughness to his team. “I’ve never really stood up here, in all the time that I’ve been here, and ever really defined toughness to you,” Saban began. The six-time National Championship-winning coach then outlined his meaning of the […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Monday participated in a White House panel on border security and was a special guest afterward at President Donald Trump’s ceremony honoring the brave men and women of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Marshall accepted the invitation to be a part of this […]

In a video posted Sunday by Auburn’s football program, head coach Gus Malzahn announced walk-on quarterback Devin Adams from Mobile has been awarded a scholarship for his senior year. Malzahn, while addressing the team in the video, praised the scout team quarterback for his unselfishness. “He never complained one time. He’ll just do whatever he […]

The national pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony (SBA) List joined pro-life Alabamians and the state’s Republican Party Chair Terry Lathan in Mobile on Wednesday to urge Senator Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to the United States Supreme Court and buck “the radical abortion lobby” that helped get […]

Republican Rep. Martha Roby (AL-2) hit back at Chelsea Clinton on Friday, saying, “It is appalling to me that anyone would attempt to assign a monetary value to human life.” This came after Clinton last week praised abortion as being good for the nation’s economy. “The net, new entrance of women [into the workforce over […]