On Friday’s episode of Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, said he was optimistic about the future of President Donald Trump’s proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrats have threatened to force the government into a shutdown if funding for the wall were included in […]

With the recent announcements of thousands of jobs coming into Jefferson County in connection with Amazon’s advanced robotics fulfillment center, DC BLOX’s data center and Shipt’s decision to keep its corporate headquarters in Birmingham, local officials are working from a playbook that has four steps, they say. It all begins with Alabama’s business climate that […]

For Dave Smith, a one-off equipment installation job turned into the chance of the lifetime. “It was going to be a weekend gig,” Smith said of his first role on College GameDay. “The Monday after, I got a call asking if I could do that the entire football season. That was 24 years ago.” Smith’s […]

National polling released on Thursday claims that the Alabama Crimson Tide are the most "hated" team in college football.

In response to yoga being banned from school activities in Alabama because it was deemed “inappropriate,” the president of the Universal Society of Hinduism is calling on the state to end its almost 25-year ban on yoga in public schools. Rajan Zed, Hindu statesman and Indian American from Nevada, insists that the ban on yoga […]

A vehicle transportation company is bringing its business to Alabama and with it, 140 jobs. AL.com reports Lohr North America is converting a building in Lincoln’s 160-acre (64-hectare) industrial park into a plant where it plans to employ about 140 people.

Two weeks after John Mullins, superintendent of schools in the rural Alabama city of Arab, announced his decision to quit playing the song “Dixie” at football games, approximately sixty people showed up at the local board of education meeting Thurday night to strongly protest the change.

Yellowhammer Multimedia announced today that the 4th annual Power of Service reception will take place Thursday, October 25th at the Renaissance Birmingham Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa. For the last seven years, Yellowhammer has released an annual list of the most powerful and influential people in Alabama business and politics. The 2018 list will be released October 1, […]

Birmingham Mayor Randall L. Woodfin is drawing heavy criticism after Yellowhammer News reported on his interview with NPR’s “Code Switch” from last week, in which Woodfin said that becoming a sanctuary city would not be going far enough and instead declared Birmingham a “welcoming city.”

Governor Kay Ivey on Friday released a statement highlighting Alabama's inclusion in "Global Trade" magazine's ranking of the best eight states for manufacturing in the nation.

Three Alabama men are accused of stealing around 100 bronze vases from graves and selling them as scrap metal. AL.com reports 36-year-old Johnathan Miquel Brittain, 28-year-old Colby Adam Humphries and 31-year-old Ronnie Dale Norton II are charged with conspiracy to commit theft.

United Airlines says it is adding more flights and using bigger planes this fall to carry passengers to college football games across the South and elsewhere in the U.S. The Chicago-based airline says in a statement that the added seats will bring passengers to “top college football markets.”

Law enforcement raided the home of state Rep. Louise Alexander (D-Bessemmer) before dawn on Thursday morning in the process of executing a search warrant.

Three people accused of running an Alabama pill mill have been indicted. AL.com reports 85-year-old Dr. John Ladd Buckingham, 53-year-old Cindy Louise Hyche Dunn and 56-year-old Thomas Mason Dunn were indicted Wednesday.

Infighting continues three weeks after Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) engineered a failed takeover of the Alabama Democratic Party.

Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale on Thursday announced a new comprehensive school safety plan to ensure the safety and security of all the county's students, faculty and staff.

After the iconic California burger chain In-N-Out's donation of $25,000 to that state's Republican Party began making the rounds on social media Thursday, angry liberals on the West Coast began boycotting and Alabama state Sen. Phil Williams (R-Rainbow City) told the restaurant "c'mon to Alabama."

After Yellowhammer News reported on a social media ad urging Doug Jones to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh, another ad emerged saying, "Jones is putting politics ahead of his country."

A Politico report on Wednesday speculated Attorney General Jeff Sessions was close to being fired because President Trump made fun of his southern accent and Alabama education, however questions are now arising over the veracity of their reporting.

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was busy this week arresting illegal immigrants in Alabama. WZDX in Huntsville on Thursday reported on ICE's raids across the northern part of the state.

When Cullen Potter was born at just 22 weeks in March, Molli, his mom, wrote on Facebook that doctors gave the premature baby just a two percent chance of survival, per The Telegraph.

An Alabama appeals court has upheld the murder conviction and life sentence of a 19-year-old man accused of fatally beating a man with a baseball bat. AL.com reports the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the 2017 conviction and sentencing of Eric Matthew Blackerby on Wednesday.

U.S. Army General Gus Perna last week told a group of Birmingham business and civic leaders that the Army needs their support and partnership "to ensure it remains the greatest, strongest, smartest and most professional all-volunteer force in the world," per a spokesperson for the Army Materiel Command.

A 13-year-old girl is in custody after someone threatened on social media to send bombs to several Alabama schools. The Montgomery Advertiser reports the girl was arrested early Wednesday following online threats that appeared Tuesday night.