Montgomery Mayor Steven L. Reed has been selected in the latest class of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative.

Governor Kay Ivey released a video strongly calling on Alabamians to wear masks and doing their individual parts in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Friday allocated $100 million in funding for grant programs that will benefit the hospitals and nursing homes in the state who have suffered financially from the coronavirus pandemic. Two grant programs will be established, each worth $50 million, with one for hospitals and one for nursing homes. The money for […]

Auburn University will not fire or otherwise take action against a lecturer who recently sparked controversy for incendiary comments about law enforcement.

Former University of Alabama offensive coordinator Mike Locksley on Thursday announced the creation of the National Coalition of Minority Football Coaches.

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) announced Thursday that it has received $1.1 million in grant funding to study how unmanned aircraft can aid the response to both manmade and natural disasters. The money comes from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), who granted a total of $3.3 million to the 24 universities in that […]

A felony arrest warrant has been issued for State Rep. Will Dismukes (R-Prattville), Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey announced...

U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) is sounding the alarm over election year politics by Democrats possibly coming before the welfare of the American people.

USA Today on Thursday released its annual preseason Amway Coaches Poll of the top 25 teams heading into the 2020 college football season.

The Alabama Forestry Association announced its endorsement of Mobile County Commissioner Jerry Carl in Alabama's First Congressional District.

The seven-day average of new coronavirus cases has dropped in Alabama, even as the number of patients hospitalized for the virus remains high enough to put significant stress on healthcare providers. When Yellowhammer News provided its last COVID-19 update one week ago, the state was averaging 1,593 new cases per day. In the seven days […]

Urgent high-impact COVID-19 research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is catching its second breath, thanks to the generosity of Alabama business leader donors and the discovery and clinical skills of UAB researchers. Ten new pilot projects — funded by $402,000 in donations — began Aug. 1. The projects will last six months and were selected […]

Among the many unknowns of COVID-19 is what success looks like in combatting the threat, which could perhaps give Alabamians an all-clear to return to a sense of normalcy. However, that may not come until there is a vaccine for the coronavirus, according to State Sen. David Sessions (R-Grand Bay). During an interview with Mobile […]

In the wake of Isaias, Alabama Power Company sent 133 lineworkers and 94 support personnel to New Jersey to assist utility FirstEnergy in its storm response

The National Governors Association announced that Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has been elected to the association's 2020-2021 executive committee.

Budget shopping chain Dollar General on Wednesday announced the opening of its large, new cold storage distribution center in Montgomery. The 450,000 square foot facility is the product of a $26 million investment for the company and will support around 65 new jobs in the River Region. The Montgomery facility is cold storage, meaning it […]

The Alabama Forestry Association announced its endorsement of Republican nominee Tommy Tuberville in the Yellowhammer State's 2020 U.S. Senate race.

As local Alabama economies continue to grapple with COVID-19, one hit particularly hard has been Alabama’s seafood industry as restaurants have scaled back operations and limited demand. One part of Alabama’s seafood industry that faces a dual-threat from China, not only as a result of a coronavirus that originated from Asian superpower but because of […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has been awarded another major launch assignment that will benefit the United States of America.

Nearly a quarter-million college students across the state of Alabama can be tested for COVID-19 with a free, rapid, non-invasive nasal swab-based procedure, to ensure a negative test — or quarantining in the case of a positive result — before returning to campus. This opportunity was made possible by the implementation of GuideSafe™ Entry Testing, a […]

The Mobile Airport Authority on Tuesday unveiled a plan that would move all commercial air traffic to the Brookley Aeroplex near downtown. The city’s current aviation hub, the Mobile Regional Airport, is not located near an interstate and is a 30 minute drive west of the city center. The Brookley location is located just off […]

Congressman Gary Palmer (AL-06) on Tuesday gave high marks to a new executive order from President Donald Trump that makes permanent the expansion of telehealth services for those on Medicare that was first implemented at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will institute the changes proposed by […]

The Alabama Republican Party special primary election in House District 49 occurred on Tuesday in parts of Bibb, Chilton and Shelby Counties.

Space Camp has been saved. The U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville has received the $1.5 million in public support it needed to avoid permanent closure. A $250,000 donation from SAIC on Tuesday afternoon pushed the effort past the mark needed. SAIC, which is an abbreviation of Science Applications International Corporation, is a government […]