Birmingham is rejoicing as the new Interstate 59/20 interchange reopened on the evening of Jan. 17. Celebrating the completion of the city’s $700 million Bridge Replacement Project at 2 p.m. Friday, Gov. Kay Ivey, Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) representatives and civic leaders took part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the interchange. Ivey praised the team […]

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. Livingston is leading the formation of a new legislative group focused on the needs of an industry which generates billions for Alabama’s economy and is vital to national security. In an interview with Yellowhammer News, he outlined that the […]

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. While this maiden test flight occurred in November, it was not made public until now. Dynetics is the performer for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Gremlins program. Managed out of DARPA’s Tactical […]

Two Republican Alabama Senate candidates continue to battle the out-of-state Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), which describes itself as the nation’s largest association of atheists and agnostics. Earlier this week, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions joined in the defense of Notasulga’s Reeltown High School against the FFRF and detailed his long-running feud with the foundation. […]

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. Major races to watch across all counties include the Democratic presidential primary, the Republican senatorial primary and Republican congressional primaries in AL-01 and AL-02. Statewide, eligible Alabamians will also have the opportunity to […]

New polling obtained Friday morning by Yellowhammer News shows a potential blowout on the horizon in the March 3 Republican primary to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Martha Roby (AL-02). We Ask America, a national polling firm based in Illinois, conducted a survey January 14-15 of 600 likely GOP primary voters. The margin of error was […]

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, the Birmingham native and former U.S. Secretary of State, recently met with members of Alabama’s startup and technology community to share her experiences as well as to discuss opportunities and challenges facing the state’s emerging innovation sector. With vast experience in the technology sector, Rice currently serves on the board of Dropbox […]

Alabama’s capital city is becoming renowned across the globe for utilizing technology and innovation to revolutionize public safety and urban infrastructure operations. US Ignite and Smart Cities Connect this week named the City of Montgomery a winner in two 2020 Smart 50 Awards categories: urban infrastructure and digital transformation. Montgomery’s STAR Watch program and LED […]

Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) has decried the political nature of the impeachment process for months. However, on Thursday, Jones began fundraising for his 2020 reelection campaign off of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate. In an email sent out by his official campaign, the Doug Jones for Senate Committee, Jones himself writes, […]

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 (R-Alabaster) and State Rep. Chip Brown (R-Mobile) on Thursday announced the filing of important legislation to bolster the protections of critical infrastructure assets in Alabama. Companion bills filed in each chamber, Senate Bill 45 and House Bill 36 respectively, aim to amend a 2016 law which defined critical infrastructure in Alabama […]

Yellowhammer News on Thursday obtained the latest television advertisement for former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ 2020 U.S. Senate campaign. Sessions is running in a crowded Republican primary field to reclaim his former Alabama Senate seat, the one currently held by Senator Doug Jones (D-AL). The new ad is entitled “Won’t Back Down” and contrasts […]

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 overwhelmingly by the U.S. Senate on Thursday, with both Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) voting to support the trade deal. The implementation act for the USMCA passed the Senate 89-10. The trade deal, which is set to replace NAFTA, has been […]

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 television interview this week, Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels (D-Huntsville) discussed the historic compact with the state proposed by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians (PCI). PCI, based in Atmore, is the only federally recognized tribe in the Yellowhammer State. In late 2019, the tribe unveiled a compact plan that could pay […]

Congressman Bradley Byrne (AL-01) on Wednesday took to the U.S. House of Representatives floor, implying Democrats will regret demanding that Senate Republicans bring in more witnesses for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial than the House interviewed during its impeachment inquiry. While speaking on the floor, Byrne stood next to a poster showing a picture of […]

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. The agreement includes a commitment from China to buy more American agricultural goods, including soybeans and pork. In a statement afterward, Alabama Farmers Federation president Jimmy Parnell thanked the Trump administration […]