The U.S. Census Bureau has moved the deadline for individuals to respond to the Census; it will now occur on the last day in October. The end date for collecting Census responses has changed multiple times in 2020, with the Trump administration and federal courts going back and forth over the proper day to stop […]

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 […]

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – The Huntsville/Madison County Chamber today announced that new economic development projects will bring 510 new jobs and more than $71 million in investment to the community. These eight companies under taking the projects have expanded or located in Huntsville metro area during 2020 but have not previously announced their growth plans. “We […]

BIO Alabama’s virtual conference, “Connecting the Alabama Bioscience Community,” taking place Oct. 5-9, features keynote speakers former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin, Newmark Knight Frank Vice Chairman Bob Hess, U.S. Sen. Doug Jones and BIO President and CEO Michelle McMurry-Heath. “A global pandemic made science, specifically bioscience, an overnight media sensation and the #ALBioTech community has […]

Earlier this week, Gov. Kay Ivey extended her “Safer at Home” order in the name of mitigating the spread of COVID-19, which includes a mandate that individuals under some circumstances wear a mask. Not everyone agrees with Ivey’s use of authority under the tenets of an emergency order, even as the coronavirus is dominating headlines […]

VANCE, Alabama – Workers at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz plant have produced an all-new model that the company calls the peak of SUV luxury. The first customer-ready Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 built in Alabama rolled off the assembly line at the Mercedes-Benz U.S. International facility in Tuscaloosa County in September. Mercedes unveiled the vehicle late last year, saying that it […]

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 […]

Dr. Jane Grimwood, one of the most cited researchers in the world, uses her knowledge of life’s tiniest building blocks to achieve big things. Grimwood works at Huntsville’s HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, where she is a co-director of the Genome Sequencing Center. She leads a staff 0f 25 researchers, along with co-director Jeremy Schmutz, who […]

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 […]

A scientist in the federal government on Thursday summarized preliminary findings of the Great Red Snapper Count that indicate the famous fish species is much more numerous than previously believed. U.S. Representative Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) said in a statement that the data indicates Alabama “can increase opportunities for snapper fishermen without danger to the health […]

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 […]

MONTGOMERY — The top federal official in charge of the 2020 U.S. Census visited Montgomery on Friday morning as part of a last-minute push to get citizens to fill out their Census forms ahead of the October 5 deadline. Census Bureau Director Dr. Steven Dillingham told Yellowhammer News at the event that 3,000 Census employees […]

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 […]

AUBURN, Ala. – Leaders from the Federal Bureau of Investigation unveiled the organization’s revised strategies for dealing with cyber attacks at an hour-long virtual event hosted by Auburn University’s McCrary Institute on Thursday morning. FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director Matt Gorham and FBI Deputy Assistant Directors Tonya Ugoretz and Clyde Wallace joined McCrary Institute Director […]

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 […]

U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) on Thursday introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives termed the “American Jobs First Act” that aims to protect American workers from less expensive employees imported from other countries. Brooks believes the United States should make impactful changes to its immigration policy, especially the visa program that allows […]

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 […]

U.S. Representative Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) on Thursday pushed back on the idea that New York handled the coronavirus pandemic well, arguing the state could learn from how it was dealt with in Alabama. Byrne’s initial comments were posted to Twitter in response to a report by the New York Times that showed New York City, […]

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 […]