The U.S. Navy has announced that the USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) recently executed two successful interdictions, resulting in the seizure of drugs worth an excess of $113 million in wholesale value. The vessel, an Independence-variant littoral combat ship, was built by Austal USA at the company’s state-of-the-art facility in Mobile, Alabama, and commissioned by the Navy in […]

C Spire, an internet service provider and member of the Alabama Rural Broadband Coalition, is adding to its holdings with the acquisition of Mobile-based Harbor Communications. The acquisition was announced via a virtual media briefing with executives from both C Spire and Harbor. C Spire says that it has big plans for Harbor’s Alabama customers, […]

All employees of Atlas Senior Living will be financially incentivized to get vaccinated for coronavirus, the company has announced. WBRC first reported the news. Atlas is based in Birmingham and has communities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee. The company is one of the fastest-growing senior living companies nationwide, with plans to […]

The Conservation Fund, American Battlefield Trust and the University of South Alabama (USA) this week announced a new project to protect approximately 60 acres at the storied Fort Blakeley Battlefield in Baldwin County. The groups have committed to permanently conserving this historic site, where U.S. Colored Troops fought and won. According to a release, the […]

Hospitals across Alabama began giving doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine to healthcare workers on Tuesday, a major milestone in the state’s efforts to combat the virus that has upended nearly all aspects of normal life. Alabama’s first recipient of the vaccine was Dr. Walter Doty, the director of critical care at the Dothan area hospital […]

Alabama Republican Party Chair Terry Lathan has announced that she will not seek reelection to a fourth term in 2021. Lathan informed ALGOP State Executive Committee members of her decision in an email on Tuesday. Yellowhammer News contributor Jeff Poor first reported the news. A former public school teacher and longtime Republican grassroots activist from […]

Governor Kay Ivey’s decision to exercise emergency powers last week to extend the expiration date on economic incentive packages and waive tax liabilities on CARES Act benefits tested the limits of her powers under the pandemic state of emergency. While some have applauded Ivey’s willingness to act where she has seen it as necessary, a […]

Last week, Gov. Kay Ivey announced she was exercising emergency powers under the COVID-19 state of emergency to extend economic incentive programs and limit potential state tax liabilities created by benefits generated by the federal government under the CARES Act. It was a move made without an official act of the Alabama Legislature but has gotten approval […]

Former State Rep. Richard Laird (I-Roanoake) passed away on Monday at age 81 after a bout with the coronavirus, his family has confirmed. Laird served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1978 until choosing not to seek reelection in 2014. Before election to the legislature, he served on the Roanoke City Council from 1972-1976. He […]

MONTGOMERY — Members of the Alabama Republican Party gathered with state officials in the capitol on Monday to officially cast the state’s nine Electoral College votes for President Donald Trump. Trump in 2020 received the largest-ever number of votes a candidate has received from the voters in Alabama. He earned 1,441,170 votes to former Vice […]

Alabama’s initial allotment of the first approved coronavirus vaccine is arriving in the state early this week, with three hospitals receiving their doses on Monday and 12 more getting their shipments on Tuesday. The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) made the announcement in a news release on Monday. Alabama is receiving a total of […]

Mercedes-Benz on Monday officially announced it will launch six new electric vehicle lines by 2022, including two new SUVs to be built in Alabama. Mercedes’ electric vehicles will all be branded under the “EQ” designation. The company announced that the new EQS and EQE SUVs will both be produced in Tuscaloosa, beginning in 2022. The […]

The state agency overseeing medical licenses approved an emergency rule over the weekend to allow out of state doctors in good standing to apply for temporary emergency medical licenses in Alabama. The Alabama Board of Medical Examiners and the Medical Licensure Commission met over the weekend and adopted the measure. “As the number of COVID-19 […]

Alabama’s Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board voted on Monday to allow curbside alcohol sales through the holiday season. The ABC Board’s decision comes as the state is experiencing record levels of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. The board first instituted curbside selling in March but stopped the practice in the middle of September during a lull […]

Regions Financial Corporation has announced that chief operating officer John Owen will retire effective March 15, 2021, following a nearly 38-year distinguished career in business and banking. Owen has spent the past 13 years at Regions, joining the Birmingham-based company in 2007 as head of Operations and Technology. In 2009, he was named head of […]

Phoenix Investors in recent days announced that an affiliate of the national private commercial real estate firm has acquired the vacant plant in Wetumpka owned and once occupied by Russell Brands. A Class A industrial facility totaling approximately 891,000 square feet on 102 acres of land, the plant was closed in 2013. “I want to […]

U.S. Rep. Martha Roby (AL-02) this past week delivered her congressional farewell address on the floor of the House of Representatives. The Republican from Montgomery chose not to seek reelection this year after serving five terms in Congress. Roby is widely and bipartisanly respected, especially when it comes to advocacy related to defense, veterans, agricultural […]

Auburn Director of Athletics Allen Greene on Sunday announced that Gus Malzahn is no longer the head football coach on The Plains. Defensive coordinator Kevin Steele has been named interim head coach, and a national search for Malzahn’s permanent replacement will begin immediately. A release said that Greene recommended the change in the football team’s leadership […]

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is recruiting women in Alabama to join the WISDOM study, or Women Informed to Screen Depending On Measures of risk, which is an innovative national research study designed to test a personalized approach to breast cancer screening and prevention. Women between the ages of 40 and 74 who have […]

On Friday, Gov. Kay Ivey announced she was using her emergency powers under the COVID-19 state of emergency to extend economic incentive programs and limit potential state tax liabilities created by benefits generated by the federal government under the CARES Act. The action raised constitutional questions from some lawmakers. However, State Sen. Clay Scofield (R-Guntersville), […]

Construction of the $174 million Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex’s Protective Stadium marked a key milestone last week with a “topping out” celebration. A topping out marks the ceremonial placement of the last steel beam in a construction project. Due to COVID-19, officials signed the beam over three days at the construction site. Once signed, the beam was lifted by crane […]

Hobson City in Calhoun County isn’t much different from many Alabama small towns. But its founding and history make it unique. The state’s first incorporated Black city celebrates that history. But it is more focused on creating community today and opportunity tomorrow. Alabama NewsCenter sat down with Hobson City Mayor Alberta C. McCrory to talk about this […]

The University of Alabama at Birmingham will receive 10,725 initial doses of the Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 vaccine next week. The initial single doses will be administered to front line UAB Hospital personnel and clinical staff, Emergency Medical Services teams from the seven-county region, and other hospitals within Jefferson County. “We are in the midst of our darkest time […]

The Supreme Court of the United States on Friday evening released an unsigned order tossing the State of Texas’ lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State of Georgia, State of Michigan and State of Wisconsin. The lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, sought for SCOTUS to block the 2020 presidential election results in […]