Birmingham-headquarted Energen (NYSE: EGN), one of Alabama's biggest public companies, has been sold to Midland, Texas-based Diamondback Energy. The all-stock deal is valued at approximately $9.2 billion, per the Birmingham Business Journal.

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.

WBRC's Rick Karle on Monday shared a moving video from University of Alabama football great Kerry Goode, who is battling ALS.

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.

Kay Ivey on Tuesday named longtime state employee Kelly Butler as Acting Director of the Alabama Department of Finance, as outgoing Director Clinton Carter served his final day in office after resigning earlier this summer to become the Chief Financial Officer for the University of North Carolina System.

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 […]

Tuesday morning, Alabama state Rep. David Standridge (R-Hayden) was interviewed on Fox and Friends First, where he shared information and his thoughts on the state's new law which allows “In God We Trust” to be displayed in public buildings.

Monday, The University of Alabama posted a video of their campus police department participating in a lip sync battle against Clemson University.

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 on 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 to the Supreme Court.

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.

With his faith in God, Ivry Hall went from a world of gangbanging, drugs, and dropping out of school before the age of 12 to becoming valedictorian.

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.

Steve Marshall on Monday forcefully pushed back on a recent report by the Associated Press about the state's new law allowing "In God We Trust" to be displayed in public schools.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed the NDAA for fiscal year 2019, which gives American military personnel their largest pay raise in nine years.

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 […]

Rick Dearborn, the former senior White House official with deep Alabama connections, has accepted a new position as senior policy adviser at Adams and Reese, LLP – a law firm that has a large in-state presence between its offices in Birmingham, Mobile and Montgomery. Dearborn, who recently served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, […]

The University of Alabama's Million Dollar Band on Monday posted a chilling rendition of the university's alma mater, while welcoming their new members.