Greg Cook on Tuesday announced that he is running for the Supreme Court of Alabama in 2022. He is currently general counsel for the Alabama Republican Party, in addition to being a practicing attorney with 30 years of experience in the courtroom. A release from his campaign underscored that Cook identifies as a constitutional conservative. […]

Commissioner Rick Pate (R-AL) on Monday announced that he will seek reelection in 2022 leading the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries. Pate is currently serving his first term as commissioner of Agriculture and Industries after being elected as a conservative outsider and businessman in 2018. During his term as commissioner, the Alabama Department of […]

The Alabama Forestry Association on Monday announced its endorsement of Republican Kenneth Paschal in the special general election in House District 73, which covers a portion of Shelby County. Paschal is a 21-year U.S. Army veteran and has lived in Shelby County for the past 14 years. He is a member of the Shelby County […]

Governor Kay Ivey on Monday signed into law SB 267 banning vaccine passports in the state. The law becomes effective immediately. SB 267 was sponsored by Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) and carried in the House by Rep. Paul Lee (R-Dothan). The bill received unanimous support in the Senate but 16 Democratic “nay” votes in the […]

A Drive Electric Earth Day EVent was held Saturday at The Market at Pepper Place in Birmingham’s Lakeview neighborhood, where attendees got to hear about the varied benefits of owning an electric vehicle. Drive Electric Earth Day is a national campaign designed to share first-hand information about electric vehicles. At the Birmingham event coordinated by the […]

Governor Kay E. Ivey on Friday afternoon signed Senate Joint Resolution 138, which expresses “solidarity with Israel in its defense against terrorism in the Gaza Strip.” Ivey signed the measure — passed by the Alabama Legislature on Monday — alongside the Consul General of Israel to the Southeast, Anat Sultan-Dadon. “The state of Alabama and Israel […]

Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) on Friday announced a federal grant totaling $2.5 million to the Healthcare Authority of Winfield to upgrade the ICU and ER at Northwest Medical Center. The award came from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration via an Economic Adjustment Assistance grant. This was funded by the CARES Act, which was […]

Alabama’s seaport modernization program began construction on Friday to deliver, by the year 2025, a deeper and wider Mobile Ship Channel and improve the lower harbor turning basin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has executed two construction contracts in a multi-phase, $365.7 million construction program engineered and designed to deepen the existing Bar, Bay […]

The Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) on Friday announced that the state’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted April unemployment rate was 3.6%, down from March’s rate of 3.8%, and well below April 2020’s rate of 13.2%. Alabama has now had the Southeast’s lowest unemployment rate for three consecutive months, as well as one of the lowest in […]

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Friday joined Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) in introducing the Children Have Opportunities in Classrooms Everywhere (CHOICE) Act — a bill to allow low-income families with children in grades K-12 to use federal education funds for educational options that best fit their needs. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), […]

Huntsville-headquartered Torch Technologies over the past two weeks announced that it has been awarded three separate contracts from the federal government worth a total of $2.887 billion. In the two days following the $722 million award previously reported by Yellowhammer News last Friday, Torch won two additional contracts. The first was a $1.065 billion task order […]

Troy City Council President Marcus Paramore on Thursday announced that he will seek the Republican nomination for the House District 89 seat in the Alabama Legislature. The seat is currently held by Rep. Wes Allen (R-Troy), who has announced that he will run in 2022 for the Office of Alabama Secretary of State. HD 89 […]

Birmingham-based Peritus Public Relations (Peritus PR) has been selected as Alabama’s exclusive member of the Public Relations Global Network (PRGN), the firm announced this week. PRGN represents over 50 leading public relations firms around the world. Through collaborating with peers across the globe and raising awareness of Alabama’s impact, Peritus PR advised that this unique […]

Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) and former U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia Lynda Blanchard are currently the only two candidates in Alabama’s 2022 U.S. Senate race, however prominent conservative activist CJ Pearson hopes that field will soon grow to include a fresh face. Pearson is president of the Free Thinker Project and a student at the University […]

State Senator Jim McClendon (R-Springville) on Thursday announced that he will not be seeking reelection in the 2022 election cycle. After serving three terms in the Alabama House of Representatives, McClendon was first elected to the Senate in 2014 before being reelected in 2018. He currently serves as chairman of the Senate Healthcare Committee and […]

MONTGOMERY — Governor Kay Ivey this week signed into law two bills passed by the Alabama Legislature designed to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the state while attracting and retaining talented workers for a 21st century economy. HB 540 and HB 609 were developed based on interim policy recommendations by the Alabama Innovation Commission, which […]

U.S. Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL), the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), released a statement on Wednesday regarding recent reports of political bias within the Department of Defense. “I am greatly concerned by numerous press reports of conservative voices being silenced in the Department of Defense while Departmental leadership defends and protects […]

In a public service announcement released Wednesday by the Alabama Department of Public Health, University of Alabama Crimson Tide head football coach Nick Saban urges Alabamians to get their COVID-19 vaccinations. “College football fans and players both want full stadiums this fall,” Saban says. “Let’s make sure we can safely make this happen by getting […]

The 2021 regular session of the Alabama Legislature just wrapped up on Monday night, however there are already rumors of a special session — or multiple — that could be called this summer regarding major lingering issues, such as prisons, gaming and appropriating the latest batch of federal COVID-19 relief sent to the State. This […]

Madison County Commission Chairman Dale Strong on Tuesday announced that he has raised over $300,000 from more than 200 donors to strongly kickoff his Republican candidacy in Alabama’s Fifth Congressional District. The impressive fundraising haul covered six weeks of campaigning following Strong’s entry into the race at the end of March. With over a month […]

The Connect Alabama Act (SB 215) has been signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey and is now set to enable transformational broadband expansion across the Yellowhammer State. Sponsored by Sen. Del Marsh (R-Anniston) and carried in the House by Rep. Danny Garrett (R-Trussville), the bill received nearly unanimous bipartisan support and was supported by […]

Governor Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education on Tuesday announced that the renowned Alabama First Class Pre-K program will add 135 new classrooms in 41 counties this fall. This is only the first round of new classroom funding that will be released by the Department of Early Childhood Education for the […]

MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Senate on Monday unanimously gave final passage to HB 237, which now heads to Governor Kay Ivey’s desk after passing the House earlier in the session. Sponsored by State Rep. Ginny Shaver (R-Leesburg), the “born-alive” bill — to be known as “Gianna’s Law” — is named after a survivor of an […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is calling on President Joe Biden to put America’s national energy security first, including by resuming construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. In a letter dispatched to the White House on Monday, Marshall and 18 other attorneys general forcefully called out the Biden administration for its opposition to the vital […]