Someone cut and rearranged excerpts from President Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address and made a truly moving Memorial Day video. The original producer is unknown, so, unfortunately, we cannot give him credit, but the result is certainly a credit to his craft. Watch and share this video on this truly special day. The full speech and be […]

PGA champions Fred Funk and Tim Petrovic will offer life-long lessons to children this morning in Birmingham, part of Alabama Power’s Junior Clinic in advance of this week’s Regions Tradition. More than 300 third through fifth graders from local schools will take part in the clinic at Greystone Golf & Country Club, which will focus […]

Yellowhammer Multimedia this week launched a new radio show: “The Wake-Up Call with Baylor and Hannah” that airs weekdays from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. on WYDE 101.1 FM. The talk show focuses on politics, faith and culture and features Birmingham-based co-hosts Baylor Cook and former Rick and Bubba intern Hannah Hutson. The duo met […]

Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and four other Democrats received “illegally over-sized campaign donations” from Rosie O’Donnell, according to a report in the NY Post. The newspaper analyzed campaign finance reports and found that O’Donnell has “regularly” exceeded the contribution limits of $2,700 per election set by the Federal Election Commission. “Alabama Sen. Doug Jones disclosed […]

Yellowhammer News Managing Editor Rachel Blackmon Bryars today joined the Dale Jackson Show on News Talk 770 AM / 92.5 FM WVNN to discuss an opinion article she wrote about the Tom Brokaw allegations, plus Bryars and Jackson discuss the #MeToo movement, the media, Mike Pence and why culture mocks virtue but destroys people who […]

Power bills will go down for many Alabamians starting this summer. The Public Service Commission today announced that Alabama Power Company’s 1.4 million customers will not pay as much for power and fuel beginning in July. According to the PSC, there will be a $337 million reduction over the next two years because of the […]

Larry Lee, a candidate for the Republican nomination for a seat on the Montgomery County Board of Education, has been described in a memo as a R.I.N.O (Republican-In-Name-Only) by a veteran GOP lawmaker for his longtime association with the Democrat Party and support of policies promoted by Alabama’s controversial teachers union. “Larry Lee does not deserve […]

Alabama’s Governor Kay Ivey and top female leaders from across the state gathered in Birmingham last month as honorees at Yellowhammer Multimedia’s inaugural Women of Impact Awards held at Ross Bridge Renaissance Resort & Spa. National media personality Dr. Gina Loudon emceed the standing-room-only event, saying Alabama will always be her “sweet home” after she […]

Snakes … why did it have to be snakes? U.S. Army Sgt. William Frye took what had to be his unit’s photo of the year: a southern black racer slithered across a rifle held by an Alabama National Guard sniper during a recent training exercise at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The sniper was […]

Yellowhammer News announced today that it will begin carrying articles written by the scholars at the Mises Institute, a world-renowned economics research center located in Auburn. “Many conservatives are likely unaware that our beliefs in the free market were significantly, if not entirely, shaped by Ludwig Von Mises and his students,” said the site’s editor, […]

A 63-year-old man known as “Wise William” is well-known in the Montgomery historic garden district for riding his bike all around town and sharing his smile and sunny outlook on life. William took a freight train from Birmingham to Montgomery forty years ago and stayed in Montgomery. He was homeless for some time but now […]

Birmingham-based Yellowhammer Multimedia on Monday announced a new strategic partnership with leading Mississippi political news site Y’all Politics. Y’all Politics was founded in 2004 and has built a loyal audience who value honest news and insightful conservative opinion. The site has been recognized around the country for its work and is regularly cited in national […]

Media personality Dr. Gina Loudon may have grown up in Missouri, but the firebrand conservative commentator who regularly appears on national television and radio says she will always call Alabama her “sweet home.” Loudon, who got her talk radio and TV start in St. Louis, moved to Alabama to host the popular “Dr. Gina Show” […]

Wednesday on Birmingham’s Superstation 101 WYDE’s “The Line,” Breitbart.tv editor and Yellowhammer News contributing writer Jeff Poor discussed the day’s news with host Andrew McLain. During the segment, Poor talked about reports President Donald Trump was considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller and how those could have been trial balloons meant to gauge public opinion […]

An Alabama program called First Class Pre-K is seeing such extraordinary results that Harvard University is producing a documentary about the effort and more than 30,000 four-year-olds were pre-registered last year in hopes of snagging one of the less than 17,000 available spots state-wide. The program is overseen by Alabama Secretary of Early Education Jeana […]

Evangelist and gubernatorial candidate Scott Dawson won a straw poll earlier this week conducted by the Pike County Republican Club. Dawson received 52 percent of the vote from the club’s members, followed by Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle with 38 percent, Governor Kay Ivey with 6 percent and State Sen. Bill Hightower with 4 percent, according […]

U.S. Representative Martha Roby participated in a defense appropriations subcommittee hearing this week where she expressed her appreciation to Secretary Heather Wilson for the Air Force’s decision to base F-35 Joint Strike Fighters at Dannelly Field in Montgomery. https://youtu.be/HOx–qUKWiU Roby also discussed other military-related programs in Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, including helicopter training at Fort […]

Alabamians who live in Huntsville know it’s not unusual for their neighbors, friends and other folks they meet around town to have the letters Ph.D behind their names and work in engineering, defense, tech and science fields that have helped the city earn its reputation as the smartest city in Alabama. One of those Huntsville-area […]

U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) voted this week in support of a bill to reform some of the harmful effects of the Dodd-Frank regulations enacted during the Obama era and brings relief to community banks and credit unions throughout Alabama. The legislation, which passed 67-31, shifts the focus of regulatory agencies away from small institutions […]

The Alabama Crimson Tide football team is travelling – yet again – to the White House to celebrate another national championship victory. President Donald Trump will host Coach Nick Saban and the team at the White House on April 10, according to a source familiar with the plans. The president attended the national championship game […]

Alabama State Rep. Will Ainsworth, a Republican lawmaker from Guntersville, recently appeared on the Jesse Lee Peterson Show to promote his legislation to allow trained teachers to carry firearms on school grounds. Watch the video here: (Image: State Rep. Will Ainsworth on the Jesse Lee Peterson Show – J.L. Peterson/Youtube) Sign-up for our daily newsletter here […]

Did you know that the only federally recognized Indian tribe in Alabama operates as a sovereign nation with its own government and bylaws on a hard-won official reservation near Atmore? Seated at the top of the tribe, in its highest leadership position, is a woman who has seen her people go from poverty to prosperity […]

Out with the old, in with the … news feed! Our website has undergone a complete redesign to better provide our readers with the information they want and need, including innovations like: — The Wire, which will feature excerpts and links to relevant news from around the internet. — A scrolling, news feed-based design so […]

Yellowhammer News just heard in the hallway that the weekly newspaper owned by State Rep. Craig Ford, I-Gadsden, apparently removed a favorable reference to his Republican opponent that appeared in a statewide syndicated column it carries. The column, Inside the Statehouse by Steve Flowers, was issued online February 28 and — between mentions of the […]