Altimmune Inc. on Tuesday announced that preclinical studies of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have shown positive results that appear to distinguish this candidate from others that are currently in advanced stages of clinical development. A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Maryland, Altimmune in March announced a collaboration […]

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama on Tuesday highlighted the incredible magnitude of the company’s contributions to the continuing battle against COVID-19. In a press release, BCBS of Alabama advised that it has paid, contributed or made available $230 million related to the pandemic supporting its members, employer customers, providers and communities across the […]

HARTFORD, Alabama – Officials in rural Geneva County believe their job-creation efforts will receive a major boost from a new 45,000-square-foot speculative building that’s ideal for a manufacturing operation. A ceremonial groundbreaking for the building in the Geneva County Industrial Park was held this month. Construction on the structure, located near to the Air Performance Inc. […]

The University of Alabama System on Monday voluntarily launched a comprehensive online dashboard that displays key COVID-19 data for its three distinct institutions: the University of Alabama, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Student testing data to-date was released with the launch of the dashboard. This […]

A group of River Region organizations including the City of Montgomery announced Monday the creation of Montgomery Techlab, a program designed to increase the viability of mobile app developers in the area. The program consists in large part of a 12-week program described as “intensive” where startup companies from the Montgomery area that develop apps […]

RADAR CHECK: Rain is relatively widespread across Alabama this afternoon south of a line from Auburn to Greenville to Mobile; this is the rain shield associated with Marco, a dissipating tropical system in the far northern Gulf of Mexico. The rain and thunderstorms are well removed from the center due to strong shear. The sky […]

The City of Hoover will hold municipal elections on Tuesday, and Place 2 city council candidate Ron Brown will be one of the names on the ballot. A local entrepreneur, Brown recently posted a video voicing his strong support for growing high-quality jobs and opportunity in Alabama’s sixth-largest city. “Business growth — I think that’s […]

State Representative Andrew Sorrell (R-Muscle Shoals) on Monday cast all of the state’s 50 delegates to officially renominate President Donald Trump as the GOP’s candidate for president in 2020. The official nomination of Trump was a procedural matter — the president has enormous support among Republican voters and faced only token challengers in the primary […]

Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox announced Monday that he has issued an executive order closing all bars and bar service at restaurants in the city for 14 days. He said the decision was made in concert with the University of Alabama and local health officials. Maddox appeared at a press conference alongside University of Alabama President […]

Regions Bank announced Monday that it is granting $75,000 to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) to help offset revenue losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic. BCRI is currently in the midst of raising $750,000 before the end of the year to keep operating, meaning the Regions grant covers 10% of the total fundraising goal. […]

During this week’s broadcast of Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” State Rep. Chris England (D-Tuscaloosa), who also serves as the chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party, was optimistic about his party’s chances in Alabama in November. England said that both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and incumbent U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) could win […]

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) on Saturday announced the addition of three days to the state’s 2020 private angler recreational season for red snapper. The decision came after the department’s Marine Resources Division completed a review of data from the red snapper season that ended July 3. The division determined the additional days […]

After spending much of August assisting power companies in New Jersey and Illinois following violent storms, more than 200 Alabama Power linemen and support personnel are back safely in Alabama. The crews left on Aug. 5 for New Jersey after Tropical Storm Isaias left thousands without power. Alabama Power worked with Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L) to restore power to more than […]

The United States House of Representatives on Saturday passed a bill that would prohibit the United States Postal Service (USPS) from implementing any operational changes until next year. The 257-150 vote came in a special session called last Sunday by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) supported the legislation, while the six Republicans […]

A professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been awarded a one-year, $98,930 grant by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for plasma research that could advance pulsed fusion propulsion for spacecraft. The grant funds work by a team led by Dr. Gabe Xu, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. […]

One of the problems all of Alabama’s 67 counties have encountered with the COVID-19 outbreak is the housing of inmates at county jails that under normal circumstances would be in an Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) facility. However, the pandemic has prevented the routine transfer of inmates to state facilities, leaving county governments with the […]

Alabama Power is urging customers to prepare for the possibility of severe tropical weather early next week as the company’s crews prepare to quickly and safely respond following the storm. Forecasters are predicting the possibility of a tropical storm or hurricane making landfall next week somewhere in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Meteorologists at the Alabama Power-USA Coastal […]

The Huntsville Police Department continues to go above and beyond in serving its local community in North Alabama. WAAY this week reported that Huntsville PD officers collected donated school supplies from members of the community over the course of a month or so, including “backpacks, colored pencils, notebooks and much more.” On Tuesday, Huntsville City […]

Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) on Friday announced he will vote “no” on House Democrats’ postal bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) earlier this week called the House in for a special session on Saturday to consider legislation that prohibits the United States Postal Service (USPS) from implementing any operational changes. A release from Brooks’ office denounced […]

RADAR CHECK: Large areas of light to moderate rain are moving across parts of north Alabama early this morning, and as an upper trough persists over the region we expect a number of showers and thunderstorms across the state today with a mostly cloudy sky. The Storm Prediction Center has defined a marginal risk (level 1 out […]

U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) on Tuesday morning interviewed with Washington, D.C. radio station WAMU’s “1A Across America.” The interview followed Jones’ virtual address to the 2020 Democratic National Convention on Monday night. The convention, which concluded on Thursday, featured presidential nominee Joe Biden and vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, along with prominent Democrats of […]

Huntsville-based Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., a division of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, this week announced it has been awarded a $29 million contract from Raytheon to produce and sustain the Cooling Equipment Units (CEU) for the world’s most powerful ground mobile radar system. Known as Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance (AN/TPY-2), the system requires one CEU per […]

The Alabama Historical Commission (AHC) announced this week that three iconic sites in the Yellowhammer State have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Bricklayers Hall in Montgomery, The Alabama Book Store in Tuscaloosa and Vanity Fair Park in Monroeville are now nationally enshrined for their historical significance. “The National Register properties in […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Friday issued a supplement to her emergency proclamation that will allow municipalities greater freedom to recruit and train election workers. Almost every midsize and small city in Alabama heads to the polls next Tuesday, August 25, to vote on their mayor and city councils. Should no candidate get 50% in […]