State Senator David Burkette (D-Montgomery) has resigned his position amid an ongoing investigation into potential violations of state ethics laws and continued health concerns. Burkette, who was recovering from a stroke for most of the 2020 legislative session, did not elaborate on his reasons for leaving office in his official resignation letter, though he acknowledged […]

Time is running short as the U.S. Census Bureau is set to announce reapportionment numbers based on the 2020 Census outcome, which will reveal whether or not Alabama will keep or lose one of its congressional seats. Last week, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) was deposed in the federal suit State of Alabama & Mo […]

Alabama State University (ASU) on Tuesday revealed their newly installed technology from the company Draganfly that uses a camera to check an individual’s temperature, heart rate and other vital signs. If the person submitting themself to the scan does not display any indications that they are infected with the coronavirus, a green light appears and […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) CEO Tory Bruno is providing insight into some of the added benefits of space exploration, as NASA and private sector partners continue to forge ahead with historic plans to form a sustainable presence on the moon and ultimately land Americans on Mars for the first time in the relatively near future […]

The Southeastern Conference on Tuesday announced some of the football games that will be broadcast on ESPN affiliates, including the SEC Network, during the 2020 regular season. The SEC is set to play a 10-game, conference-only schedule this year, with September 26 as the kickoff date. Kickoff times and networks were announced on Tuesday by ESPN […]

The Alabama Census Bowl has been created where counties that have performed poorly in responding to the Census will earn money for their school systems by competing head-to-head at increasing their response rates. The competition, similar in style to a March Madness type bracket, is a project from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community […]

CBS on Tuesday morning announced six of the SEC games that will be featured on its network for the 2020 college football season. The University of Alabama Crimson Tide will feature in three of those six contests, while the Auburn Tigers will play in one matchup. The SEC is set to play a 10-game, conference-only […]

Four airports across the state of Alabama will receive a total of $10,109,066 in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grants for improvements to airport infrastructure. U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) on Tuesday announced the grant funding, which was awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) after being made available through annual appropriations measures, as well […]

Johnarian Travez Allen, 29, was shot eight times and killed in recent days in Union Springs, the county seat of Bullock County. The motive for such a brutal killing? According to WSFA, the alleged killer says Allen, then a pedestrian, was crossing the street at too slow a pace.

Online collegiate resource “Niche” has rated Auburn the best university in Alabama, while the magazine “Money” has named Auburn as the best value in the state. Money says it factors in affordability, quality of education and graduates’ earnings potential to the rankings they publish. The publication highlighted Auburn’s 78% graduation rate as a positive indicator […]

Lowndes County Sheriff John “Big John” Williams was fatally shot in the line of duty less than a year ago while responding to a call about a disturbance at a Hayneville gas station. William Chase Johnson, 18, turned himself in hours after the shooting and has been charged with capital murder. His attorneys in court last […]

Alabama Community College System (ACCS) Chancellor Jimmy Baker announced on Monday that he has appointed Gregg Bennett to serve as the interim president of Gadsden State Community College. Current president Dr. Martha Lavender announced earlier in the year that she would be retiring from the post she has held for the last six years. Bennett […]

Earlier this year, State Rep. April Weaver (R-Brierfield) resigned her spot in the legislature to take a job in the Trump administration. That meant a special election for constituents in House District 49, which includes parts of Shelby, Chilton and Bibb Counties, and is a solidly Republican district that consists of a mix of suburban […]

University of Alabama Student Government Association president Demarcus Joiner on Monday morning interviewed on “CNN Newsroom” with Jim Sciutto about the university’s return-to-campus efforts. The interview came after the university’s latest publicized data on Friday evening showed that its attempts to flatten the curve appear to be working. “We’re happy to say that no students […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has allocated $10 million for a grant program to help relieve the financial pain suffered by the state’s timber owners during the coronavirus pandemic. The money comes from the $1.9 billion Alabama received as part of the federal government’s CARES Act passed in March with the goal of alleviating the economic […]

The future USS Savannah (LCS 28) was christened this past weekend at Austal USA’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama. Savannah is the 14th of 19 Independence-variant littoral combat ship that Austal has under contract with the United States Navy. “Austal is honored to christen today what will be the sixth Navy ship named after […]

It is a presidential campaign issue that no one would have seen coming a year ago, but House Democrats under the leadership of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are demanding additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service. Their reason: The USPS is not equipped to handle the potential onslaught of vote-by-mail ballots coming this […]

Alabama-based Full Moon Bar-B-Que and Ajlo Foods recently announced the restaurant will be expanding into the Rocket City for the first time later this year. The location at 1009 Memorial Parkway in Huntsville will be Full Moon BBQ’s 16th total location, all of which are in the Yellowhammer State. The new restaurant will be housed […]

Digital academic coaching company Pack Education and its partners recently announced the kickoff of Ignite Powered by Pack Education, a virtual academic advising pilot program to provide support to students at the University of South Alabama, Bishop State Community College and Coastal Alabama Community College. Pack Education, a subsidiary to digital health coaching company Pack […]

Bronze Valley Accelerator has hired Haley Medved Kendrick as its director and has announced startups from Birmingham, Alabama and throughout the Southeast can apply for the program. Kendrick comes to Bronze Valley Accelerator with a background in economic development and building public-private partnerships in Birmingham’s technology sector, most recently as executive director of Innovate Birmingham. […]

Nick Saban knows how important football is to the greater community. He saw it growing up in his small hometown in West Virginia and he’s seen it on a higher level as the head coach at the University of Alabama. And while he appreciates what it means to fans, alumni and the community at large, […]

A national movement in protest of racial injustice is providing a timely launch of a digital platform that aims to highlight the positive work that young people across the country are doing in their communities, hoping to inspire others to do the same. “Shape the Culture” is the brainchild of 17-year-old Jordyn Hudson, a senior […]

One of downtown Birmingham’s largest vacant buildings could see new life as 192 workforce housing apartments after a $30 million renovation. The five-story, 140,000-square-foot former American Red Cross building at 2225 Third Ave. N. has been vacant since the organization moved out in 1999. The development team behind the $24 million revitalization of the American […]

A young student who is blind grins from atop a horse, feeling for the first time an entirely new rhythm. Elsewhere on the campus of Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AIDB), a child who is deaf plays a drum, nodding with the beat, lost in the sensation. Another student, an adult going through vocational […]