Alabama Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced that Alabama achieved five economic bests in June, setting a new record low unemployment rate...

Yellowhammer held the second event in its 2019 "News Shapers" series. Entitled “Connecting Alabama’s Rural Communities,” the forum regarding broadband...

July 18, 1917 Shortly after the United States entered World War I, the War Department established Camp McClellan as a rapid mobilization base and permanent National Guard facility. More than 27,000 men were training at the east Alabama base by the end of 1917. Camp McClellan was originally named in honor of U.S. Army Maj. […]

Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth presented Dr. Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. with the 2019 Thomas R. Hobson Distinguished Aerospace Service Award for a lifetime of...

Morning Consult released its polling numbers for the second quarter of 2019, showing Sen Doug Jones' net approval rating 20 points lower...

Jeremy and Gina Miller, an interracial husband-and-wife real estate team in the Birmingham metro area, were shocked on Wednesday to discover a racial...

Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed an executive order establishing the Governor’s Study Group on Criminal Justice Policy, which will...

The University of Alabama and Auburn University veterans associations are once again teaming up to raise awareness for the 22 veterans lost each day to suicide by marching from Tuscaloosa to Auburn, Alabama, for the 2019 Iron Bowl. The 150-mile “Operation Iron Ruck,” which will begin at Bryant Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa on November 26 […]

A large number of Americans are generally tired of this, that's what John Merrill is accurately dialed into.

Rep. Robert Aderholt delivered a speech on the House floor honoring Alabama's Apollo 11 contributions and calling for the Space Launch System (SLS) to...

In American politics, the term “socialism” no longer carries the taboo it once had evidenced by the success of self-proclaimed socialist political candidates on the Democratic side of the aisle. Given these changing times, it is certain to cause Republicans to question socialism in campaigns by sounding the alarm and warning those who are listening […]

Congressman Mo Brooks took the U.S. House floor to celebrate Apollo 11's 50th anniversary and his district's role in making that famous mission successful.

ATHENS — In this early going of the 2020 election cycle, the declared U.S. Senate candidates for the seat up next year are starting to make their ways around the state of Alabama and are defining their stances on ideology and policy. On Tuesday, North Alabama Republican voters got one of their first glimpses of […]

A sea of people of people packed the Davidson Center for Space Exploration at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center on Tuesday to celebrate the Rocket City's...

BIRMINGHAM — Southern Research on Tuesday held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Energy Storage Research Center, which is the first of its kind in Alabama and is indicative, industry experts said, of the Yellowhammer State positioning itself at the forefront of next-generation energy needs. The ceremony was held in collaboration with Southern Research’s partners […]

During an appearance on Mobile radio’s FM Talk 106.5 on Monday, Mobile County Commissioner Jerry Carl, a candidate for Alabama’s first congressional seat to be vacated by U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope), told listeners it was his understanding the Alabama Department of Transportation intended to levy a toll on vehicles using the existing I-10 Wallace […]

On July 16, 1969, the Huntsville-built Saturn V rocket powered the launch of Apollo 11, which would land American astronauts on the surface of the Moon...

The details of the seemingly unpopular tolling aspect of the proposed new I-10 Mobile Bay Bridge have been limited. One verified detail is that in addition to the new bridge, the proposed $3-6 toll would also apply to the existing twin-span Wallace Tunnel completed in 1973. However, the tolling of the Wallace Tunnel could come […]

It has been a mystery to some as to why the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) did not aggressively pursue federal funding for the proposed new bridge and settled on a toll as a means to finance it. The point was raised earlier this year by U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope), a candidate for U.S. […]

State Rep. Chris Pringle on Monday visited U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office to fight the proposed I-10 Mobile Bay Bridge toll.

As the toll on the proposed I-10 Mobile Bay Bridge continues to be the hot-button issue of the day in southwestern Alabama, the number of those in support of tolling is shrinking. Republican candidates for Alabama’s 2020 U.S. Senate election and the first congressional district of Alabama’s U.S. House of Representatives seat to be vacated […]

While United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno now sits at the summit of the space industry, spearheading the Alabama rocket manufacturing juggernaut...

Join the Yellowhammer News team Thursday, August 8 for a “Yellowhammer News Shapers” event in Jasper -- entitled “West Alabama and the coal industry...”

Governor Ivey announced that she has awarded six grants totaling over $1.14 million to provide access to high-speed internet in several rural communities.