HOOVER — Dominique Wilkins on Friday got the question that NBA players and employees seem to dread most nowadays. While giving a keynote speech at the Alabama Economic Growth Summit, the NBA legend was asked about the recent high-profile controversy surrounding the league and China. The scrutiny began earlier this month when Houston Rockets general manager […]

HOOVER — During Friday’s Alabama Economic Growth Summit, a panel entitled, “Capitalizing on tech and innovation momentum,” was held. Britney Summerville, vice president of community engagement of Birmingham-based Shipt, moderated the discussion. Panelists were State Rep. Bill Poole (R-Tuscaloosa), chairman of the House Ways and Means Education Committee; Miller Girvin, CEO of Alabama Capital Network; and Matt […]

HOOVER — Healthcare was a major topic of discussion during a Friday morning panel at the Alabama Economic Growth Summit. Moderated by University of Alabama System Vice Chancellor Clay Ryan, the day’s first panel consisted of Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh (R-Anniston), Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton (D-Greensboro), House Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) […]

Governor Kay Ivey on Friday released a statement strongly backing President Donald Trump. Amid current impeachment efforts by U.S. House Democrats, Ivey said, “We are witnessing an injustice on our democracy.” “Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress are making an attempt to impeach the president through the press via leaks and conjecture,” she outlined. “This […]

Boeing engineers and technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have now structurally attached the first of four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines to the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon. Per an announcement by NASA this week, integration of […]

The Yellowhammer State boasts three of the 22 total contenders for the 2019 Paul “Bear” Bryant Award, which is presented by the American Heart Association annually to college football’s top head coach. The University of Alabama’s Nick Saban, Auburn University’s Gus Malzahn and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Bill Clark on Wednesday were all […]

University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban is known for getting snippy when he does not like questions posed to him by members of the media. On Wednesday, while speaking at a weekly press conference, Saban almost recreated another well-known coach’s most famous — or infamous — diatribe. WVUA 23’s Gary Harris was one […]

Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) on Wednesday voted for a resolution authored by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that would undermine a key part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. S.J. Res. 50 was ultimately defeated but not before Alabama’s junior senator joined 42 others in voting “yea.” The resolution would have […]

At the White House’s request, Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) and 22 other House Freedom Caucus members on Tuesday met with President Donald J. Trump in the White House Cabinet Room to talk about Democrats’ ongoing impeachment efforts. However, that is not all that was discussed. Brooks, the only Alabama congressman in the room at the […]

Dynetics, which has been headquartered in Huntsville since the company’s founding in 1974, continues to emerge as an international leader in the space industry. A high-technology solutions company with impressive portfolios in the aerospace and defense sector, Dynetics on Wednesday announced a partnership with Hypergiant, an artificial intelligence (AI) products and solutions company. According to a […]

Congressmen Bradley Byrne (AL-01) and Mo Brooks (AL-05) were among a group of over 20 Republican representatives who on Wednesday charged a secure Capitol room — known as a SCIF — in order to protest and disrupt a closed-door impeachment hearing that was underway. According to reporting by CNN and other outlets, Deputy Assistant Secretary […]

Dr. Barry Paul Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., has been named director of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). According to a Tuesday announcement, Sleckman, currently an associate director of New York’s Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, will begin his new role at UAB on January 6. He is […]

Congressmen Robert Aderholt (AL-04) and Bradley Byrne (AL-01) on Tuesday evening gave separate one-minute speeches on the U.S. House floor, slamming the process being used by Democrats in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Aderholt’s remarks focused on the secretive nature of the Democrats’ proceedings, mentioning closed-door hearings that all members of Congress and […]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will be the “special guests” at a U.S. Senate campaign fundraiser for Congressman Bradley Byrne (AL-01) on November 21 in Birmingham. The fundraiser invitation obtained by Yellowhammer News outlines that there will be a VIP reception and a general reception. The VIP reception calls […]

Along with Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), count Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) as an ardent critic of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday tweet comparing the ongoing House impeachment inquiry to a “lynching” of him. Trump tweeted, “So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can […]

The Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday launched a new  initiative to help boost the River Region’s entrepreneurial  ecosystem. The new “Work Together” business studio and coworking space located at 600 S. Court Street in Montgomery will be more than just a physical space, according to a press release. Starting in 2020, “it will […]

State Senator Clyde Chambliss (R-Prattville) was recently named the 2019 Outstanding Public Official by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). ASCE’s Committee on Advancing the Profession selected Chambliss to receive the prestigious national honor for “impeccable service and dedication to the State of Alabama, as well as to the civil engineering profession and land […]

Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) is urging President Donald Trump to visit the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)’s Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery to see “what lynching actually looks like” after the president invoked the term when complaining about the ongoing House impeachment probe into him. On Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted, […]

Jessica Taylor, a Republican businesswoman and lawyer from Prattville, is off to a hot start in the race to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Martha Roby (AL-02). Taylor announced her candidacy for Alabama’s Second Congressional District on Monday by releasing an almost two-minute introductory campaign video. That seems to be all it took for her campaign […]

Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) on Monday slammed U.S. House Democrats after they blocked consideration of a resolution censuring Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), chair of the House Intelligence Committee. A motion to table H.Res. 630 passed 218-185 on party lines. The resolution stated that “members of the Intelligence Committee have lost faith in his objectivity and capabilities […]

“Sweet Grown Alabama,” the state’s new agricultural branding program, has officially launched and opened membership applications. The program’s mission is to enhance marketing opportunities for the state’s farmers by connecting retailers and consumers to Alabama-grown foods and other agricultural products. The organization of Sweet Grown Alabama was announced in August. The program is run by a […]

During the University of Alabama football program’s weekly student-athlete media availability on Monday, one Crimson Tide player stood out for comments completely unrelated to the upcoming weekend’s game against Arkansas. During the press conference, a member of the media asked junior tight end Miller Forristall what he wants to do with his life. The answer […]

State Rep. Debbie Wood (R-Valley) knows first hand how quickly life can change. “It stops. It just kind of came to a halt. All of a sudden, we had a new journey,” she said. In 2015, Wood and her husband were driving when she was called by East Alabama Medical Center-Lanier Medical Center and asked […]

Congressman Mike Rogers (AL-03) on Monday sent a letter to Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, requesting access to the interview transcript of Ambassador Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine. In a statement about the letter, Rogers emphasized that Schiff and House Democrats need to be transparent with what […]