Governor Kay Ivey announced a Community Development Block Grant Monday to provide the infrastructure necessary for Tiffin Motor Homes’ new RV Center in Winfield, creating 65 jobs. The announcement of the $300,000 grant was made in a news release Monday by the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. “Bringing new jobs to Alabama is at the […]

A $75 million project is underway to transform Continental Motors’ operations in south Alabama. AL.com reports that Continental officials last year announced that its “Blue Marlin Project” would involve building a new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant at Brookley.

Following the May passage of a bill rolling back parts of the Obama-era Dodd-Frank banking regulations, Congress has a chance to install more bipartisan financial reforms, and Alabama will have a say. The Republican-sponsored Consumer Financial Choice and Capital Markets Protection Act of 2017 currently awaits consideration by the Senate Banking Committee, on which both […]

Sports betting is legal in just a handful of states, but as of last week, Alabama’s eastern neighbor has joined that select club. Mississippi’s first lawful sports wagers took place Wednesday at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi. State Rep. Paul Lee (R-Dothan) is predicting that the state legislature will consider a bill during the 2019 legislative session […]

An Alabama private school that employed two teachers who pleaded guilty to sexual relationships with students is being sued by one of the ex-students. The Tuscaloosa News reports a lawsuit filed Friday against Pickens Academy says the school was aware of the relationship between the then-teenage plaintiff and teacher Charli Parker, and did nothing to […]

Fiber infrastructure is a key tool in attracting new and expanding existing businesses across Alabama, and local providers are actively working to install innovative broadband technologies in both the rural and urban areas of the state. Last week, AT&T Alabama announced that it has invested more than $1.2 billion in 2015, 2016, and 2017 in its […]

Alabama is accepting comments on its proposal to put a work requirement on 74,000 Medicaid recipients. The Alabama Medicaid Agency opened a new public comment period on the proposal.

Authorities say two men were killed after a small plane crashed shortly after takeoff near the Alabama coast. WALA-TV reports the plane’s pilot and lone passenger died Saturday when the aircraft crashed in a field and caught fire near Foley, roughly 30 miles (48 kilometers)southeast of Mobile.

The Alabama Department of Public Health has identified an outbreak of whooping cough in Shelby and Jefferson counties. Health officials said Friday that nine children testified positive for pertussis, also known as whooping cough. Another 22 people have developed symptoms.

More than 3,500 jobs have been recruited to Jefferson County in the past 12 months and officials expect that number to increase by year’s end. “I expect another 200-job announcement soon and we’re a finalist in another more-than-a-1,000-job project that could be announced later this year,” said Jefferson County Commissioner David Carrington, chair of the […]

Denorrise “Deno” Posey may be one of the few comedians in Birmingham whose day job pays as much as, if not more than, his side hustle of making people laugh. Posey is a Regions Bank executive by day and comedian by night. And he’s good at both. “It’s fun, because during the day I get […]

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin attended Netroots Nation in New Orleans over the weekend and met up with socialist Democrat candidate for Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This gathering of progressives, sponsored by the likes of Planned Parenthood, MoveOn, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Facebook, has been held annually for more than a decade. […]

As Tyler Findlater sat in the Shelby Center for Engineering Technology at Auburn University, he felt the classroom enclose him before blacking out. When he came to his senses moments later, something felt off – the left side of his body wasn’t working. Findlater didn’t know then, but doctors told the 19-year-old hours later he […]

Birmingham’s Annie Avery, 80 years old, was crowned Ms. Alabama Nursing Home 2018 in the 35th annual pageant held July 30 at the Hyatt Regency Birmingham-The Wynfrey Hotel. “It is a wonderful feeling,” Avery said after being crowned by Miss Alabama 2018, Callie Walker. “I’ve been in things (events) before, but to be a part […]

Honda Manufacturing of Alabama today marked the official opening of its new logistics buildings, an $85 million project that further deepens the automaker’s roots in Talladega County, as well as its significant imprint on the state’s economy. The new facilities add nearly 400,000 square feet to Honda’s existing 4.2 million-square-foot factory in Lincoln, where more than […]

In the battle to confirm President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the Yellowhammer State is taking center stage as a potential swing state. Saturday, a red bus featuring the Judicial Crisis Network’s campaign slogan “Another Great Justice” was spotted motoring around Montgomery. This is a prelude to an eight-state bus tour that officially begins […]

It has been called the toughest decision of Nick Saban’s career. But Jalen Hurts might have just lost the battle to be Alabama’s starting quarterback four weeks before the season even kicks off. In an emotional interview Saturday, Hurts expressed his frustration with how events have unfolded since he was benched for Tua Tagovailoa at […]

From July 8-10, Bonnie George saw the Caribbean country of Haiti transform into a cauldron of trouble, as citizens erupted in protest over skyrocketing gasoline prices. As prices jumped overnight to $5 a liter, some people reacted in frustration. The average Haitian family makes $2 a day. George witnessed the firestorm during a mission trip […]

Authorities in Alabama say a wandering toddler led police to two dead bodies. Birmingham police Sgt. Johnny Williams tells AL.com that police responding to a report of a child alone on the street found a toddler wearing bloodstained clothes Thursday.

It’s finally here, sports fans: the last weekend without either college football or NFL games until February. The NFL Preseason kicked off with the annual Hall of Fame Game on Thursday in Canton, OH, as the Baltimore Ravens defeated the Chicago Bears 17-16. Now, we have one more dormant weekend to get through before Saturday […]

Friday in an interview that aired on FM Talk 106.5’s “Midday Mobile,” Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) explained the process as to how he will go about determining whether he will vote to confirm Supreme Court associate justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Jones denounced the advertising campaign underway meant to influence his decision and explained he […]

Birmingham has had a summer packed full of music festivals and events, and that wave of music is not over. The Eighth Annual Secret Stages  is coming to Birmingham’s Avondale community Aug. 3-4. The festival has always been billed as a “discovery festival” where artists from the city and region perform for audiences of music […]

Piggybacking on a federal investigation into possible collusion, a Mobile law firm has filed a class-acton lawsuit accusing the nation’s biggest television station owners of fixing advertising rates. Clay, Massey & Associates filed the lawsuit this week in U.S. District Court in Chicago against Gray Television Inc., Nextstar Media Group, Tegna Inc., Tribune Media Co. […]

Will Mississippi’s newly legalized sports betting hurt Alabama athletics? One state legislator has a dire warning for college football fans. Representative Rich Wingo (R-Tuscaloosa) played five seasons for the Green Bay Packers and knows the dangers of mixing sports and gambling first-hand. Wingo told WBRC that the FBI would show up every year at team meetings to […]