Two Alabama organizations are partnering to raise awareness of the possibility for child care providers to receive state grant money towards adding an Alabama First Class Pre-K classroom to their fall 2020 offerings. The Alabama School Readiness Alliance (ASRA) and the Alabama Association for Early Care and Education (AALECE) will put on a webinar hosted […]

Federal Aviation Administration data shows 2018 was the busiest year on record for Alabama’s largest airport. The latest data available from the federal agency shows more people boarded flights at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth in 2018 than in any year since 2008.

Alexander Shunnarah Personal Injury Attorneys, P.C. has been selected as a finalist in six of 12 possible categories for the national Golden Gavel Awards.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s study commission on criminal justice policy will make recommendations that could include sentencing changes and expanding the use of pretrial diversion programs. The panel met for the final time Tuesday and will submit recommendations ahead of the legislative session that begins Feb. 5.

WETUMPKA — All of the Republicans running to replace Rep. Martha Roby (R-Montgomery) as the representative in Congress for Alabama’s Second Congressional District gathered alongside several dozen voters in Wetumpka on Tuesday night for a forum held by the Elmore County Republican Party. New polling obtained by Alabama Daily News has Jeff Coleman, the businessman […]

Alabama Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield will attend the ceremonial signing of the Phase 1 trade deal between the United States and China at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. President Donald Trump will sign an 86-page agreement with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He that includes a commitment by China that it will make […]

This past holiday season St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham bought $8.1 million in medical debt owed by about 6,500 families across Central Alabama and then forgave it all. Because many hospitals sell off the debt they are not sure they can collect, St. Lukes was able to purchase the $8.1 million in debt for […]

Montgomery-based Life On Wheels, a Christian non-profit, is expanding its Image Clear Ultrasound (ICU Mobile) services to Birmingham, free of charge.

Balch & Bingham announced the continued growth of its public policy and government relations practice with the addition of Stephen W. "Steve" Still ...

Earlier this month, State Sen. Clyde Chambliss (R-Prattville) raised a few eyebrows when he said the legislature would take a look at eliminating the state’s sales tax on groceries in the upcoming session. Alabama, along with Mississippi and South Dakota, are the only states to levy the full sales tax on groceries as it does […]

Stephen Moore, the architect of the 2017 tax cuts, told Yellowhammer News that Trump likely wouldn't have become POTUS without the support of Jeff Sessions.

A study conducted by researchers at Auburn University found evidence that African-Americans who reported more than average racial discrimination showed increased symptoms of aging over a 10-year time frame. The study was led by Dr. David H. Chae, an associate professor at the university. It centers its evidence on the length of telomeres — which […]

Sessions: "This is all part of a very fundamental battle that is raging in America, and it is a battle that is no small matter. Increasingly, the hard...

Tuesday during an appearance on Talk 99.5’s “Matt & Aunie Show,” former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, warned about the consequences of the hyper-politicization of every nuance of day-to-day living. Tuberville told co-hosts Matt Murphy and Andrea Lindenberg that Democrats’ unwillingness to put election politics behind them […]

Civil rights legend and American icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent two-days in a jail cell at the Jefferson County Courthouse in 1967, and the cell in which he was held is now being turned into a historical exhibit. As first reported by the Birmingham Times, the Jefferson County Commission has unanimously passed a […]

Alabama Secretary of Labor Fitzgerald Washington has announced that the department’s Abandoned Mine Land Program has opened the third round...

Huntsville-made Boeing batteries will be installed during the second and third all-women spacewalks in history this month...

LSU beat Clemson 42-25 in Monday's College Football Playoff National Championship game in New Orleans' Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

Progress has been made in Huntsville’s long and complicated quest to desegregate its school system. Fifty-seven years ago, the City of Huntsville’s school system was put under federal oversight to try and eliminate/prevent segregationist policies affecting the city’s schoolchildren. In 2015 the U.S. Department of Justice and Huntsville agreed to a consent decree that created […]

Donnie Chesteen has pre-filed a bill for the 2020 legislative session that would allow Alabamians in the armed forces who are serving outside the state...

The Alabama Department of Conservation announced that interested parties can again begin submitting project proposals for GOMESA funding.

The I-20/59 bridges through downtown Birmingham will reopen for drivers by January 21, the Alabama Department of Transportation announced Monday in a press release. Governor Kay Ivey will attend a Dedication Ceremony for the bridges on Friday, January 17. There is a possibility the bridges will open the next day, January 18, but the only […]

A new study published in recent days found that the Alabama Technology Network provides a sizable net positive economic impact to the Yellowhammer State.

Golf Advisor recently honored a trio of Alabama courses in its annual list of the best golf courses in the United States.