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The Alabama Innovation Commission, known as Innovate Alabama, will serve as a platform for innovators to engage policymakers, exchange ideas and...

Bradley Byrne House

While the results of Tuesday’s U.S. Senate Republican primary runoff may not have been a surprise, the margin of victory could have been. Former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville defeated former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions by 20 points and took wins in 64 of 67 counties from the candidate who had previously served […]

U.S. Senator Doug Jones hit on several major topics in a telephone call with Southwest Alabama residents on Thursday, according to a report.

Nationally ranked startup accelerator gener8tor announced today a partnership with Bronze Valley to fuel the growth of business startups emerging from Birmingham, the state of Alabama and throughout the Southeast. Through this partnership, gener8tor will launch the Bronze Valley Accelerator program – a free version of gener8tor’s accelerator program that provides individualized mentorship and coaching for up to 15 […]

Alabama Black Belt Adventures Association (ALBBAA) unveiled the new "Feed Your Adventure—Flavors of the Black Belt Trail" campaign.

U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr has appointed Prim Escalona to serve as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Escalona steps into the role on an interim basis after Jay Town recently made the decision to step down and join the private sector. Escalona is a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College and the […]

C Spire has begun accepting consumer pre-orders for its ultra-fast, fiber-based Gigabit speed broadband services in parts of Jasper and Trussville, Alabama.

Boeing, NASA’s lead industry partner for the International Space Station (ISS), will continue supporting the orbiting laboratory through September 2024...

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is urging Alabamians to shop local during this weekend’s sales tax holiday in an effort to support companies harmed by the coronavirus pandemic. “The pandemic is affecting all kinds of businesses, but it’s been especially hard on small, independent businesses,” NFIB state director Rosemary Elebash said in a […]

With Tuesday’s runoff election result of former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville defeating former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, incumbent U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) now knows who he will face in November’s general election. During an interview with Huntsville radio WVNN’s “The Jeff Poor Show,” Jones said he anticipated a “very spirited” election […]

Governor Kay Ivey hosted Dr. Deborah Birx, the coronavirus response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, at the Alabama State Capitol.

U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) is backing Governor Kay Ivey's statewide mask mandate, which goes into effect Thursday at 5:00 p.m. CT.

The World Games 2022 Birmingham on Wednesday announced that flag football will join its existing lineup of 32 unique, multi-disciplinary sports.

Stakeholders announced the launch of JumpStartAL, a private-public partnership to help carry out Alabama’s strategy for the future of workforce development.

Before boarding Marine One on Wednesday, President Donald Trump was asked to react to Tommy Tuberville winning Alabama's GOP U.S. Senate nomination.

The Missile Defense Agency awarded Boeing a three-year, $150 million contract modification for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system.

Judge Beth Kellum will hold on to her Place 2 seat on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

Donald Trump Jr. congratulated former State Rep. Barry Moore, who won a hard-fought victory in Tuesday's Republican primary runoff contest...

Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth released a statement criticizing Gov. Kay Ivey’s public health order that implements a statewide face mask mandate...

Tuberville

Wednesday fresh off his Republican primary runoff victory a night earlier, former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville discussed his win over former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions during an appearance on Birmingham radio’s “Alabama’s Morning News” on News Radio 105.5 WERC. Tuberville defeated Sessions by a wider-than-expected margin, remarkably picking up 64 of Alabama’s […]

Ivey announces statewide mask order for Alabama

Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday announced that all Alabamians will be required to wear a mask when in public and with six feet of others.

Three high schools in Montgomery that are named after men who served in the Confederacy could receive new titles after a Tuesday night vote from the Montgomery County Board of Education. According to reporting done by the Montgomery Advertiser, the district is requesting a waiver from a state committee created by the Alabama Memorial Preservation […]

Alabaa State Rep. Ron Johnson (R-Sylacauga) passed away on Tuesday after a battle with liver cancer. Johnson had served in the House since 1978...

Tommy Tuberville decisively won Alabama's GOP U.S. Senate primary runoff, and Republicans quickly rallied around his candidacy after the race was called.