Birmingham is rejoicing as the new Interstate 59/20 interchange reopened on the evening of Jan. 17.

The new Interstate 59/20 bridges through downtown Birmingham are scheduled to open within the next few days, 12 months after they were closed for replacement. The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) announced Jan. 13 the contractor, Johnson Brothers Corp., would have the bridges completed and ready to open no later than Jan. 21. The interstate bridges were closed to traffic […]

State Sen. Steve Livingston (R-Scottsboro) is looking to give Alabama’s aerospace and defense industry a boost.

The Alabama Music Hall of Fame (AMHOF) has been cataloging and putting on display the many pieces of Alabama’s musical history for 30 years. “We have singers, songwriters, producers, musicians, all from the state of Alabama,” Sandra Burroughs, Executive Director of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame told WHNT. “They were either born and raised […]

Huntsville-based Dynetics announced on Friday that the company has successfully flown its X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle (GAV) for the first time.

Two Republican Alabama Senate candidates continue to battle the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which describes itself as the nation’s largest...

Alabama’s fishermen will be able to resume fishing on state-owned lakes beginning February 1, 2020, the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries division announced on Friday. The state of Alabama owns 23 lakes that it stocks with fish like bream, largemouth bass, channel catfish and crappie. For nominal fees, any interested angler can cast a line and […]

Alabama Secretary of State John H. Merrill's office has now released county-by-county sample ballots for the state's upcoming March 3 primary election.

New polling obtained by Yellowhammer News shows a potential blowout on the horizon in the March 3 GOP primary to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Martha Roby.

U.S. Representative Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) endorsed Joe Biden for president on Friday. The endorsement continues Biden’s dominance of support from Alabama’s most prominent Democrats. The former vice president received Senator Doug Jones’ support in April and Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin’s in December. The representative for Alabama’s Seventh Congressional District, now in her fifth term in […]

Dr. Condoleezza Rice recently met with members of Alabama’s startup and technology community to discuss opportunities and challenges facing the state's...

Montomery, Ala., is becoming renowned across the globe for utilizing technology and innovation to enhance public safety and urban infrastructure...

Sen. Doug Jones has decried the political nature of the impeachment process for months. However, on Thursday, Jones began fundraising for his...

Governor Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Transportation announced 31 road and bridge projects on Thursday that would be receiving grants from the state. Together, the 31 grants are worth $7 million. The money for the projects comes from the Annual Grant Program, a new pool of funds established under the Rebuild Alabama Act […]

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama (BCRFA) is donating over a million dollars to the University of Alabama in Birmingham’s O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, the two groups announced jointly on Wednesday. The BCRFA makes an annual gift to the O’Neal Center, and 2020’s donation is the largest yet. The group has given the center […]

State Sen. Cam Ward and State Rep. Chip Brown announced the filing of legislation to bolster the protections of critical infrastructure assets in Alabama.

Yellowhammer News on Thursday obtained the latest GOP primary television advertisement for former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Boeing provided never-seen-before views of space flight when it released video footage from inside its Starliner capsule. Cameras inside the cabin carry viewers from launch to touchdown. Designed in Huntsville, and delivered into space by an Atlas V rocket built by United Launch Alliance (ULA) in Decatur, Starliner became the first American orbital space capsule […]

President Donald Trump's historic United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was approved by the Senate on Thursday, with both Senator Richard Shelby...

The Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering (ASCTE) is now accepting applications, the school announced on Twitter Thursday morning. ASCTE will be a boarding high school where students interested in Cyber Technology and Engineering will live on campus and focus their studies on cyber and engineering courses of study. Eighth graders from across Alabama […]

For nearly a year, Alabama has been under the threat of action by the Department of Justice regarding shortfalls in its prison system, particularly regarding potential violations of the Eighth Amendment, as laid out in a letter to state policymakers in 2019. According to State Sen. Clyde Chambliss (R-Prattville), the clock is ticking for the […]

In a TV interview this week, Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels discussed the historic compact proposed by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.

Bradley Byrne: "Democrats... ignore the blatant corruption with the Biden family. If they want answers, let’s start with Hunter Biden."

President Donald J. Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Wednesday signed "phase one" of a trade agreement between the United States and China.