The executive committee of the Business Council of Alabama (BCA) Wednesday voted to adopt new bylaws for the organization, to reabsorb the companies who recently exited and to form a new executive committee. On a conference call, the now-outgoing executive committee first finalized a crucial new organizational structure for BCA through the bylaw changes, which had […]

Five Mobile teens who were born together are now all going to college together. Fox 10 News’s Lee Peck reports that the Zimlich quintuplets – Hallie, Sophia, Isabella, Amelia Rose and the lone brother, Shipley – will kick off their college career next Monday, continuing the family tradition of being a South Alabama Jag. “We […]

Birmingham-headquartered Energen (NYSE: EGN), one of Alabama’s biggest public companies, will reportedly be sold to Texas-based Diamondback Energy. The all-stock deal is valued at approximately $9.2 billion, per the Birmingham Business Journal. Energen has a storied history in the Yellowhammer State, including as the longtime owner of Alagasco until they sold the company in 2014 to […]

Once affectionately known as the “Pittsburgh of the South,” Birmingham might finally be getting a modern moniker after Forbes on Monday published a deep-dive about the city’s strides to become a tech hub. The article, written by Zara Stone, is titled “Inside Birmingham’s Bid To Become The Southern Silicon Valley” and features a first-hand account, […]

WBRC’s Rick Karle on Monday shared a moving video from University of Alabama football great Kerry Goode, who is battling ALS. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS is a disease of the nervous system that progressively gets worse until being fatal. Goode was diagnosed back in 2015, and the typical life expectancy from that time is […]

An Alabama city’s police department will be required to release body camera video of when high school students were pepper-sprayed in 2016 by an officer while painting a cannon after a football game. WALA-TV reports a Mobile County Circuit Court judge signed an order Monday that says the city of Mobile has 14 days to […]

Koch Foods has announced an $80 million expansion at an Alabama plant that is expected to bring around 200 jobs to the area. The Gadsden Times reports that company announced the move Tuesday.

The Marshall University quarterback who was part of the team’s return after the 1970 plane crash that killed 75 players has died. Reggie Oliver was 66.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday named longtime state employee Kelly Butler as acting Director of the Alabama Department of Finance to replace outgoing Director Clinton Carter, who resigned this summer to become the Chief Financial Officer for the University of North Carolina System. According to a press release by the governor’s office, Butler began his […]

There is one particular word that Dr. John Christy turns to frequently for describing climate science: murky. It’s a point of view foundational to his own research, and a message underpinning each of his twenty appearances before various congressional committees. “It’s encouraging because they wouldn’t invite you back unless your message was compelling and not […]

Alabama state Rep. David Standridge (R-Hayden) was interviewed Tuesday on “Fox and Friends First,” where he discussed the state’s new law that allows “In God We Trust” to be displayed in public buildings. Standridge, who sponsored the legislation in the state legislature, explained that the idea came in part out of recent debate about school safety. He said […]

Monday, The University of Alabama posted a video of their campus police department participating in a lip sync battle against Clemson University. UAPD chose “Sweet Home Alabama” as their song and, afterward, challenged all other SEC schools to join in on the competition. Watch the full video here. DYK: UAPD was challenged by the @ClemsonUniv […]

Tuesday, Congressman Bradley Byrne (AL-01) announced that illegal immigrants would not be housed at Navy airfields in Baldwin County. Congressman Byrne opposed the housing of 10,000 illegal immigrants at Naval Outlying Field Silverhill and Naval Outlying Field Wolf in south Baldwin County. Byrne, along with other members of the Alabama and Florida Congressional delegation, sent […]

After a liberal heckler hurled an object and expletives at Sen. Doug Jones at a town hall Monday, Alabama’s junior senator compared the incident, which ended with police officers hauling the agitator out, to peaceful conservative efforts to persuade Jones to vote to confirm President Trump’s nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. AL.com’s Howard Koplowitz […]

A rural Alabama high school is ending its tradition of playing “Dixie” at football games. John Mullins, superintendent of city schools in Arab, said he made the decision to quit playing the song at Arab (AY-rab) High School, but not because of any “external pressure.”

An Alabama high school teacher who was paid nearly $130,000 while on leave fighting charges that she had sex with students has resigned. The Decatur city school board accepted the resignation of Carrie Cabri Witt on Monday.

Ivry Hall has a tale to tell – one that is too unbelievable and too tragic to be anything but real. But it is who life’s challenges have made him, and where Hall is going from here, that he wants to be his life’s story. Chicago born-and-raised, Hall just turned 18 last month. “I grew […]

A former police officer in Alabama who pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and burglary has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Montgomery Advertiser reports 51-year-old Leon Todd Townson was sentenced Monday.

An Alabama company has a five-year, $522 million extension to an Army contract for inflatable satellite antenna systems. GATR Technologies Inc. of Huntsville first won the contract in 2013.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Monday pushed back on a recent report by the Associated Press that asserted the state’s new law allowing “In God We Trust” to be displayed in public schools is “expected” to face legal challenges. In March, the state legislature approved a bill that took effect June 1 allowing such […]

President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2019, which gives American military personnel their largest pay raise in nine years. “We must protect those who protect us,” President Trump said in a press release. “When our service members are in uniform, it is our obligation to ensure […]

Five years after the Alabama Legislature passed a law to cut red tape, state agencies are still culling their regulations. Tuesday, the Alabama Department of Revenue will hold a hearing in Montgomery on a proposal to repeal a regulation concerning a property tax break the legislature gave to senior citizens in Baldwin County who meet […]

The Alabama Department of Public Health issued a press release on Monday to clarify that it is merely investigating potential cases of the Zika and West Nile viruses in the state, following an incorrect media report stating that a case of the Zika virus has been confirmed in Pelham. WBRC reported on Monday that the Shelby […]

Last week, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) indefinitely suspended future commercial paddlefish fishing seasons on the Alabama River. In the state’s press release it was noted that Paddlefish “mature slowly and have low reproductive rates making them highly susceptible to overfishing.” The notification to residents of Alabama mentioned the ban that […]