Alabama’s own Wickles Pickles was chosen to represent the Yellowhammer State at the Trump administration’s fourth annual Made in America Showcase. The event was slated to occur this week at the White House, however the president contracting COVID-19 changed those original plans. Nevertheless, Wickles Pickles was recognized in a statement from White House press secretary […]

U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) believes that former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Donald J. Trump do not actually support Christian values. Jones in a Facebook livestream on Wednesday morning was asked by The Montgomery Advertiser to respond to a report released the day prior by The New York Times. The report, which […]

The Alabama Retail Association’s federal political action committee this week announced endorsements in four Alabama congressional races and the state’s U.S. Senate race ahead of the November 3 general election. In the most closely watched race of Alabama’s federal races, the Retail Association is backing Republican nominee Tommy Tuberville over incumbent U.S. Senator Doug Jones […]

Alabama has blossomed into America’s third largest automotive exporter, and the electric vehicle revolution could make the Yellowhammer State No. 1 in the near future. A video released by the Energy Institute of Alabama outlines the many benefits and opportunities for the state associated with electric vehicles. Coming on the heels of National Drive Electric […]

Republican U.S. senatorial nominee Tommy Tuberville is pushing back against U.S. Senator Doug Jones’ (D-AL) new assertion that he will be a champion of the Second Amendment in the Senate. As first reported by Yellowhammer News, Jones on Monday argued he is a “Second Amendment protector.” “I can have much more influence to make sure […]

Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth (R-AL) is strongly backing Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald J. Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court of the United States seat vacated by the passing of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. On Monday, Ainsworth joined fellow members of the Republican Lieutenant Governors Association (RLGA), a caucus of the Republican […]

Auburn University at Montgomery’s (AUM) Department of Political Science and Public Administration on Monday released a poll showing Republican U.S. Senate nominee Tommy Tuberville leading incumbent U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) by 12 percentage points with only four weeks to go until the November 3 general election. The AUM poll was conducted between September 30 […]

President Donald J. Trump has announced that he plans to depart Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and return to the White House at 5:30 p.m. CT on Monday. Trump in a tweet on Monday at 1:37 p.m. CT said he was feeling “really good” and praised the “great” Walter Reed hospital in Maryland, where […]

Federal research funding to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) topped $325 million in 2019, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. The university received $328,106,722, placing UAB ninth in the list of all public universities receiving funding from the NIH. The UAB School of […]

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama on Monday announced that health and dental premiums for most fully insured individual, employer and Medicare plans will be significantly discounted for the month of November. The company voluntarily took this generous step to help provide some additional relief during these difficult times, recognizing that the COVID-19 pandemic […]

President Donald J. Trump is being flown to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as he battles the coronavirus. The president announced early Friday morning that he and First Lady Melania Trump both tested positive for COVID-19. The Trumps were tested hours earlier and had been awaiting results while quarantining since it was reported on Thursday […]

Facebook’s Huntsville Data Center is set to open in the coming months, but the center has already been contributing to the economic growth of the area, according to a report released on Thursday. Construction on the data center broke ground in 2018. Currently, Facebook has 8 operating data center locations across the United States with […]

Huntsville’s Marshall Space Flight Center this week was awarded the annual Small Business Administrator’s Cup by NASA. This yearly agency honor recognizes the NASA center that manages the most effective small business program. This marks the sixth time since the award was established in 2008 that Marshall has earned the prize – the most wins […]

Republican U.S. senatorial nominee Tommy Tuberville’s campaign began airing a new television advertisement on Friday, just 32 days away from the November 3 general election. Tuberville is set to face U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) in the contest, and the former Auburn University head football coach’s latest ad highlights Jones’ opposition to even considering the nomination […]

Few entities in the Yellowhammer State have made more of a positive difference here at home — or across our nation — than the University of Alabama System. And few people have played a larger role in the System’s success in recent decades than Kellee Reinhart. As senior vice chancellor for communications and community relations, […]

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have both tested positive for COVID-19, the president tweeted at 12:54 a.m. ET on Friday. The Trumps were tested hours earlier and had been awaiting results while quarantining since it was reported on Thursday that Hope Hicks, a senior White House aide, had tested positive. Hicks had […]

Protective Life Corporation is cementing its status as a leading innovator in the insurance industry by announcing a forward-thinking workforce development strategy that bolsters its commitment to a best-in-class culture. The company, headquartered in Birmingham since its founding in 1907 and now a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc., announced on Thursday the […]

Attorney General Steve Marshall (R-AL) on Thursday joined a coalition of 22 state attorneys general in sending a letter to the U.S. Senate urging the body to immediately hold a hearing and then promptly vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall and his colleagues wrote that […]

Air pollution has declined in the Birmingham-Hoover metropolitan area more than almost every other major American metro area since 2009, according to a report released Thursday. Utilizing data compiled by the EPA, FilterBuy examined change in air quality over the past decade. Air quality was measured through the Air Quality Index (AQI), with zero being the […]

Alabama Power Company customers will each receive a bill credit this month for their September statements. The credit on October bills is a result of lower-than-expected fuel costs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While fuel expense adjustments are typically calculated at the end of each calendar year, the company wanted to return money to customers […]

Immigration continues to be an issue in Alabama’s 2020 U.S. Senate race between Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) and Republican nominee Tommy Tuberville. A third party group previously released a television ad in the race reminding Alabama voters that Jones opposed funding a wall on the United States-Mexico border and that the senator voted to terminate […]

Alabamians have again been reminded that federal judges can have a huge impact right here at home. Judge Abdul Kallon of the Northern District of Alabama on Wednesday released a ruling in which he voided certain absentee balloting requirements for the November 3 general election. State law requires that each absentee ballot be notarized or signed by two […]

Weeks after the 57th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Governor Kay Ivey extended an apology to the “fifth girl” in the building that fateful day. Sarah Collins Rudolph survived the white supremacist, domestic terrorist attack. Her sister — Addie Mae Collins — along with Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Carol Denise McNair, […]

U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) on Wednesday met with Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald J. Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States. Following the meeting, Shelby released a statement emphasizing his strong support for the nominee. “After speaking with Judge Barrett, I am confident that she is the right choice to […]