Opelika Power Services on Monday hosted the Yellowhammer State's fifth annual Lineman Appreciation Day, sponsored by the Energy Institute of Alabama...

The Alabama Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday morning in former House Speaker Mike Hubbard’s appeal of his conviction on ethics charges. The prominent Republican was convicted in 2016 of improperly receiving consulting contracts and business investments from company executives.

Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), one of many announced running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, told Planned Parenthood supporters at an event last week that the people in Alabama who passed the Human Life Protection Act “couldn’t care less” about the babies they claim to protect. “In this fight, we know we are on […]

The Rocket City has really taken off recently, and now Huntsville is receiving the widespread recognition that the city merits.

A major drug bust in North Carolina stopped an alleged drug trafficker from reaching his ultimate destination: Alabama. WBTV reported that a traffic stop...

For the fifth consecutive year, the student robotics team from the University of Alabama won the grand prize at NASA’s Robotics Mining Competition.

Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh is running for re-election as president of the Public Service Commission, she confirmed in an interview with Yellowhammer News...

Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield will lead an Alabama delegation to Montréal for the 12th edition of the Southeastern United States-Canadian Provinces Alliance Conference, an annual gathering that showcases common economic ties and a strong trade relationship. SEUS-CP, as the conference is known, runs Sunday through Tuesday in the Québec’s largest city. The event, whose theme […]

According to Modern Healthcare's just-released rankings for 2018, the Magic City is the national leader in the health care construction field.

Hurricane season began Saturday and runs through Nov. 30. Lately, the season has been kicking off early.

Trump made an unannounced visit to Virginia's McLean Bible Church, where Pastor David Platt, formerly of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham...

Efforts by the Alabama legislature to change the current ethics laws regarding state officials and employees were met with some opposition during the 2019 legislative general session. Leading the way on the effort in 2019 was State Sen. Greg Albritton (R-Atmore), but had his bid declared dead for the session back in April by Senate […]

Sunday is National Cancer Survivor Day, and while Alabama has many survivors to celebrate, researchers and medical professionals in the...

It’s 275 days until Alabama Republicans head to the polls to vote for their preference on who will represent the GOP on the November 2020 general election ballot. Even this far out, it is a solid bet incumbent President Donald Trump will win the 2020 Republican presidential primary in Alabama. How might that assumption impact […]

The Birmingham Business Alliance will kick off its annual summer intern engagement program, Magic City Summer, Monday in downtown Birmingham. Magic City Summer is a series of free social events that connect summer interns to Birmingham’s culture, communities and influencers. Participants will enjoy a VIP summer experience, receiving discounts for some of Birmingham’s most popular […]

A utility-scale solar project, developed with a $125 million investment, is planned for rural Montgomery County. The project from Alabama Municipal Electric Authority (AMEA) and Lightsource BP will be one of the largest solar arrays in Alabama when it reaches completion in 2021, deploying over 350,000 solar panels across 800 acres.

The University of South Alabama community reflects with joy, sadness, optimism and apprehension on the discovery of the Clotilda in the Mobile Delta. The remains of the Clotilda were recently found by marine archaeologists in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta near the Plateau/Africatown area of Mobile. The Alabama Historical Commission unveiled the discovery to descendants of the […]

MUSCLE SHOALS — Despite having voted with President Donald Trump nearly 97% of the time over his career (and 100% of the time in 2019), there’s one thing that continues to dog U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope), a 2020 candidate for U.S. Senate, regarding his relationship with the current commander-in-chief. Back in October 2016, Byrne […]

"Unfortunately, [the lottery] never got up for a vote in the House. I wish the people would've had that opportunity." - Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh

Alabama lawmakers ended the 2019 legislative session on Friday. Here’s a look at some of the proposals that passed and failed this year.

Some congressional Democrats are using the occasion of the Justice Department special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign official end, which included Robert Mueller’s public remarks and resignation, to call for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. However, U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) does not think those Democrats pushing for impeachment have the […]

Just the suggestion of former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore making another run at the U.S. Senate draws adverse reactions from some in the political class, and in recent days that has shown to be the case. In 2017, Moore lost by nearly 22,000 votes, a margin of 1.7%, to now-Sen. Doug Jones […]

Obviously, Mueller did not prove that but they have decided to declare him corrupt anyway and say the absence of evidence is evidence of a "cover-up."

NASA and Boeing have entered a new phase of assembling structural parts for the powerful Space Launch System. The critical project is being overseen at Huntsville’s Marshall Space Flight Center with this phase of work completed at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Space Launch System (SLS) will be the rocket that launches America’s […]