One of the most prominent vacant buildings in downtown Birmingham is about to get a $24 million transformation into 140 workforce housing apartments thanks to opportunity zone funding and a new initiative by the city of Birmingham. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin used the redevelopment announcement of the Stonewall/American Life building at 2308 Fourth Ave. N. to […]

Barber Motorsports Park was filled with the whir of electric vehicles as participants in Electrathon Alabama converged on the park under sunny skies Monday, April 15. “Each year the competition and participation grow,” said Robin White, Electrathon coordinator and Alabama Power Project Manager. “We saw 19 high schools and six professional and collegiate teams enter a grand total of 37 cars. We […]

A woman of faith. A great friend, wife and mother. A powerful legislator. A career law enforcement officer. A trailblazer. Rep. Connie Rowe (R-Jasper) is many things to many different people around Alabama. However, throughout all of her roles and responsibilities, intertwined with a multitude of exemplary traits, is the unmistakable fact that Rowe is […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is proving his staunch commitment to combatting human trafficking in the state. On Friday, the attorney general’s office announced that the Madison County Circuit Court has granted a request by Marshall for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against a chain of north Alabama massage businesses that he said was actually […]

The number of people counted as employed in the Yellowhammer State is once again at a record high under Governor Kay Ivey’s Administration. Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington made the announcement in a statement on Friday. “Once again, we’ve shattered employment records in Alabama,” Washington said. “More people are working now than ever […]

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Private space company Blue Origin will refurbish the historic test stands at Marshall Space Flight Center to support testing of the BE-3U and BE-4 rocket engines built at a new Blue Origin facility in Huntsville. Test Stand 4670 served as a the backbone for Saturn V propulsion testing for the Apollo program, which delivered man […]

Alabama authorities say a woman has been killed after strong storms knocked down a tree onto her mobile home in St Clair County. The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office tells WVTM that a tree fell on a home on U.S. Highway 231 in Pell City just before 8 p.m. Thursday.

During a speech at Auburn University on Thursday, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Gina Haspel highlighted the agency’s role in fighting the opioid epidemic and praised the devotion and sacrifices made by CIA officers, including an Auburn alum who was killed in the line of duty. Haspel told the audience of 300 about Auburn University alum […]

As the Supreme Court of the United States considers whether the Trump administration may follow through with plans to ask about citizenship as part of the 2020 census, one Alabama state representative is leading the effort among state policymakers to support the requirement. State Rep. Wes Allen (R-Troy) has sponsored a resolution in the Alabama […]

MONTGOMERY — The Alabama House of Representatives on Thursday passed HB 59, a bill sponsored by State Rep. Chris Sells (R-Greenville) that would make killing an on-duty first responder a capital offense. The vote was 94-0. The bill adds on-duty first responders to the list of murder victims that constitutes a capital offense. State law already […]

Katie Boyd Britt is swiftly becoming the leading expert on breaking through barriers and paving the way for those to follow. At the beginning of 2019, Britt was named the first female president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama (BCA) – a prominent statewide association advocating for companies of all sizes across the […]

It would stand to reason Alabama Power would be first up to offer thanks and gratefulness during National Lineman Appreciation Day April 18. But others outside the company are just as eager. “The linemen who work in Alabama are some of our state’s most dedicated unsung heroes,” said Alabama Public Service Commission President Twinkle Cavanaugh. “These men and women […]

Even though President Donald Trump gave Jeff Sessions a lot of flack during his tenure as attorney general for recusing himself from the FBI special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election cycle, the Robert Mueller report’s release on Thursday shows why Sessions had an incontrovertible conflict of interest: He was personally under […]

Last week, the Auburn University Board of Trustees voiced its displeasure over the amount of appropriations Auburn is to receive under Gov. Kay Ivey’s 2020 budget proposal. Trustee Jimmy Rane publicly called out State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur), the chair of the State Senate’s Finance and Taxation Education Committee, noting that under the proposal, Auburn […]

President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday declared that a major disaster exists in the state of Alabama and ordered federal assistance to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the northern parts of the Yellowhammer State affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes and flooding from February 19 to March 20 of this year. Federal […]

The state’s largest organization for lawyers, the Alabama State Bar, cites trust, integrity and service as the values which should guide the group and its members. Sara Williams has excelled in her career as an attorney by embodying each of those ideals. And others have taken notice. In 2018, Williams received the Stetson University College […]

Two important thoroughfares in north Alabama are set to receive major improvements. Speaking to a delegation from the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce during the chamber’s annual Montgomery visit on Wednesday, Governor Kay Ivey announced plans to widen I-565 to six lanes and resurface the crucial interstate spur to I-65. This will be part of […]

Marillyn A. Hewson, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp., who happens to a University of Alabama alumna, was named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” for 2019, further proving that the University is the place where legends are made. In the magazine, which is set to be released Friday, […]

Alabama’s voluntary First Class Pre-K program was named the highest quality state-funded pre-kindergarten program in the nation Wednesday for the 13th year in a row. One of only three states, including Michigan and Rhode Island, Alabama meets or exceeds all 10of the benchmarks measured by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) to determine […]

MONTGOMERY — During the Senate Judiciary Committee’s public hearing on a constitutional carry bill on Wednesday, a Democratic state senator accused Second Amendment advocates of wanting people with mental illnesses to be able to purchase and possess firearms, leading the senator to assert that these same advocates themselves have “some mental problems.” State Sen. Gerald […]

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) on Tuesday announced that it is awarding a $500,000 grant to support the development of the new Flight Works Alabama Aviation Education Center in Mobile and a $2.4 million grant to the city of Tallassee to make critical infrastructure upgrades and improvements needed to enhance the competitiveness of […]

MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed SB 228, the bill sponsored by State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) to close the loophole that currently allows county sheriffs to personally pocket surplus funds for feeding prisoners in their custody. “This has been a problem, especially over the last year, and I’m glad the Senate […]

University of Alabama System Chancellor Finis “Fess” St. John has countered recent remarks by Auburn University Trustee Jimmy Rane, who said Friday that Governor Kay Ivey’s proposed Education Trust Fund budget is “not kind to Auburn.” As chair of the Auburn Board of Trustees’ governmental affairs committee, Rane outlined, “With record revenues and the largest […]

The father of modern rocketry and the first director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Wernher von Braun, famously said, “I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.” As the 15th director of Marshall Space Flight Center — and the first woman ever to serve in that position — […]