MONTGOMERY — State Sen. Jim McClendon (R-Springville) Tuesday filed legislation that would implement a lottery in Alabama. With the regular session of the state legislature back underway for the first time since the special session focused on the Rebuild Alabama Act adjourned, legislators were back on Goat Hill with a bevy of issues to address. […]

MONTGOMERY — Speaking Tuesday morning to a group of industry leaders assembled at the Business Council of Alabama, Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth (R-AL) explained that he is helping lead the charge on workforce development in the state. Ainsworth identified getting Alabama students qualified and ready to fill good, high-paying jobs as a passion of his […]

Reality television star June “Mama June” Shannon has been arrested on drug charges in Alabama. News outlets report that Shannon and a friend, Eugene Doak, were arrested March 13 at a gas station in Macon County where he was heard threatening her.

MONTGOMERY — While speaking to the Montgomery Rotary Club Monday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall shared more insight into his White House visit last week when he briefed President Donald Trump on the impact of drug trafficking at and between points of entry at the nation’s southern border. “It was really kind of an interesting […]

As the race for the Republican nomination for the 2020 U.S. Senate is starting to get underway, speculation is rampant about who might consider a bid for the shot to go head-to-head against incumbent Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) next year. One of the names sometimes mentioned has been Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover), who is […]

MONTGOMERY — Now that Attorney General Steve Marshall has begun a full term of his own, his personal vision and policy priorities are more distinctly evident in driving the office’s work. At the Montgomery Rotary Club’s weekly luncheon Monday, Marshall explained that since winning election in November, he finally had the chance to implement a […]

Join the Yellowhammer News team Tuesday, March 19th for a “Yellowhammer News Shaper” event in Montgomery. The gathering will offer a reception as well as a live interview with Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh (R-Anniston) and Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia). The discussion will be moderated by Yellowhammer News editor and […]

People across the nation are helping to find homes for animals evacuated from shelters in an Alabama community that was devastated by a tornado. The twister left 23 dead and dozens of people injured as it roared across the community of Beauregard on March 3.

Former candidate for state House and Republican Executive Committee anti-tax resolution sponsor, Tom Fredricks, is preparing a legal challenge on the Rebuild Alabama Act based on the perceived unconstitutional nature of the Port of Mobile dredging. When the Rebuild Alabama gas tax increase was being debated, for all of five days, opponents were throwing everything […]

The county with Alabama’s lowest unemployment rate is in need of more workers. WBRC-TV reports that employers in Shelby County just south of Birmingham are having trouble filling some jobs.

Last week’s passage of the Rebuild Alabama Act means Alabamians will be paying more at the pump beginning this fall. In September, the tax per gallon will increase by six cents, with additional increases coming in October 2020 and 2021 that will result in a total of 10 cents more per gallon. However, despite that […]

Hyundai Motor Company said the all-new Sonata to be built in Montgomery later this year will introduce a new platform that will reshape not only its signature sedan but other models to be built on the Alabama assembly line. Hyundai said the “third-generation vehicle platform includes a number of enhancements to the Sonata’s skeleton that will […]

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Toyota announced plans Thursday to install two new engine lines at its Alabama manufacturing facility through a $288 million expansion project that will create 450 jobs in Huntsville. Toyota said the investment will boost annual engine capacity at the Huntsville facility from 670,000 to 900,000 by the end of 2021. It will also increase […]

Anniston High School longtime boys’ basketball coach Schuessler Ware had a special way with kids. And he had an even more extraordinary way with those considered difficult kids. Now retired, Ware used that talent to mold numerous youngsters into successful adults by teaching them how to succeed. His efforts have not gone unnoticed. Ware is […]

A growing number of women are finding career success doing construction work traditionally reserved for men. The problem is that many teenage girls and their mothers don’t know those opportunities exist. To encourage more women to seek careers in construction, a group of volunteers started Power UP: It’s a Mother Daughter Thing! They held their fourth annual […]

Friday on Huntsville’s WVNN, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall discussed his recent op-ed in USA Today explaining the merits of a lawsuit he and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) have against the federal government for counting illegal immigrants in the apportionment of congressional seats and Electoral College votes. Some projections show Alabama losing a congressional seat […]

Scientists at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology have connected developmental delay and intellectual disability (DD/ID) to variations in the BRSK2 gene with the help of a social media platform used by geneticists all over the world. Researchers in Greg Cooper’s lab recently published a paper in the American Journal of Human Genetics associating genetic variation in a gene called BRSK2 with neurodevelopmental disorders. They put […]

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Alabama a $2.4 million grant to create interventions to lower aggression in middle-school students and lessen disproportionalities in school discipline. Dr. Sara McDaniel, UA associate professor of education and director of the Alabama Positive Behavior Support Office, will serve as principal investigator for “Reducing Youth Violence and Racism/Discrimination: The Efficacy […]

Last week at a town hall listening session in Huntsville, House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels (D-Huntsville) explained to those in attendance that the Republican leadership in the legislature got his support on the Rebuild Alabama Act, which will raise state fuel taxes 10 cents per gallon by 2021, because Republicans pledged to work with Democrats […]

When Bob Zellner’s “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek,” his memoir of a white Alabamian joining the ranks of some of the greatest figures of the civil rights movement, came out in 2008, a movie was in the works almost immediately. Now, a little over a decade later, it’s going to happen. Directed by Barry Alexander Brown, longtime editor […]

While much of the state’s focus on politics has been on the Alabama legislature’s handling of its Rebuild Alabama Act infrastructure legislation, which was signed into law last week by Gov. Kay Ivey, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) has been making his way around the state promoting his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the 2020 […]

The city of Notasulga went the extra mile, sort of, to honor former Notasulga High Coach Ronnie Sikes’ impact on the small Macon County town. The City Council renamed a street Sikes-Taylor Loop for the much-loved football coach. Sikes had two stints as a coach at Notasulga, one as an assistant and the other as a head coach, with […]

Shamrock Shindig at Iron City Show off your green at the 7th annual Shamrock Shindig at Iron City Friday, March 15, from 7 to 11 p.m. With live music by The Divines, hors d’oeuvres, drinks, balloon drop, and a chance to win $1,000, the Shamrock Shindig is sure to continue the tradition of providing a night of spectacular […]

The ability of U.S. forces to communicate anywhere in the world got stronger last night, and Alabamians did their part to make it happen. The U.S. Air Force sent into space one of its WGS satellites on top of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket made at the company’s Decatur facility. The ULA Delta IV […]