Key players from the team responsible for Birmingham winning a 2018 Readiness Challenge Grant from the Smart Cities Council will discuss smart projects already underway during an Innovation Week event July 10 at Alabama Power Corporate Headquarters. “Think Next: How Birmingham’s Becoming a Smart City” will focus on plans to use digital technology to improve […]

Every summer for the past 50 years, people have gathered to worship Sundays on the banks of Lake Mitchell. Back in the summer of ‘69, “River Church” started as a way to draw boaters and lake-goers to worship. The Rev. Johnnie Trobaugh got the idea after asking young people why they were missing church. “It […]

An Alabama coal company is crediting President Donald Trump for its reopening after being idle since February 2014. In a news release, RJR Mining Company, Inc. announced the purchase of a $2.7 million Hitachi 1900 excavator that it named “Trump” in honor of the president’s efforts to end the “war on coal” started by former […]

Visitors to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport who drive electric vehicles now have a place to charge up their rides. Officials with the airport and the Birmingham Airport Authority this week unveiled nine electric-vehicle charging stations, newly installed in the airport’s parking deck. Three chargers are on Level 3, in the hourly parking area. Six are on Level […]

The fact Montaeus Bell was standing before the 2018 graduating class of Montgomery’s Park Crossing High School was remarkable. “Me only being 20, two years removed from school, what do I really have to say?” Bell pondered. “Then, thinking of my story, I have a lot to say.” Bell began by recounting the 2015 fatal […]

Happy National Doughnut Day! Have you been wondering where to find the best doughnuts in Birmingham? Today, my son and I will be taking you on a magical journey to all the best local doughnut shops in the ‘Ham. We’ve tasted doughnuts big and small to prepare you and your family for this magical day! […]

President Trump told a Montana crowd on Thursday that he has high expectations for his tariff policy, predicting an end to China’s practice of robbing America’s “piggy bank.” Alabama officials are not so optimistic on this first day since the tariffs were enacted, as they wait to see what kind of consequences are brought to […]

No damage is being reported after a minor earthquake rattled northwest Alabama. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 2.8 earthquake happened around 3:30 a.m. Friday about a half-mile southwest of Muscle Shoals.

An Alabama woman is charged with felony animal cruelty in the death of a dog left in a hot car outside a Walmart store. Jefferson County jail records show 34-year-old Stephanie Shae Thomas of Trussville was released on bond early Friday after spending a few hours in custody.

According to a report that aired Thursday on Huntsville ABC affiliate WAAY, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) said given the thin Republican majority in the U.S. Senate, there could be difficulties in confirming a conservative justice to the vacancy left behind by retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. If that proves to be the case, […]

SLOCUMB – On Thursday, Rep. Martha Roby (R-Montgomery) toured several farms within her congressional district with House Agricultural Committee chairman Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas). The tour was capped off with a stop at Andy Sumblin’s cotton farm south of Slocumb in Geneva County just above the Alabama-Florida state line. Roby’s tour comes as Wiregrass farmers […]

Police in Alabama say a man broke into his estranged wife’s home and tried to sexually assault her before she shot him. Jefferson County Chief Deputy Randy Christian tells AL.com that 31-year-old Eric Austin was arrested Thursday on charges of attempted rape and second-degree domestic violence. Christian says the woman told responding deputies she shot […]

Summer is winding down, but there’s still time to beat the heat with a sweet local treat! Head out to one of these local favorites with the kids before school and fall activities start back up Bluff Park Ice Cream Shoppe Located on Shades Crest Road in Bluff Park, Bluff Park Ice Cream Shoppe is […]

Two of Alabama’s four largest cities are getting smaller, according to a report by the financial news publication 24/7 Wall Street. The report, which utilized data published by the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Program, ranks Mobile and Montgomery 39th and 27th respectively on a list of 50 American cities seeing the largest net depopulation […]

The second tropical depression of the 2018 hurricane season has formed over the Atlantic Ocean. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the depression formed Thursday morning.

Charges will be filed against the woman they believe left a dog in a parked car for seven hours Wednesday at the Trussville Walmart, ABC 33/40 reports. Trussville Police Department’s Lt. Phil Dillon told ABC 33/40 an unidentified woman parked in the Walmart parking lot around 4 a.m. Wednesday, leaving the dog in the vehicle […]

Authorities are trying to answer questions surrounding the death of a woman whose body was found at a northwest Alabama landfill. Police say state medical examiners will conduct an autopsy to determine what killed 29-year-old Casie Winborn of Russellville.

The body of a man who disappeared while swimming in a lake at Alabama’s largest state park has been located. Authorities in the Birmingham suburb of Pelham say divers recovered the body Wednesday night at Oak Mountain State Park after a search that included the use of underwater radar at the beach area.

A fraternity hoping to rent a restaurant pavilion for a social event says in a lawsuit that the Alabama business refused because most of its members are black. The Tuscaloosa Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity made the allegations in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed last week against the Cypress Inn in Tuscaloosa.

Less than two months after he took the oath of office, former Northport Mayor Wayne Rose has resigned his appointed position as a representative on the City Council. The Tuscaloosa News reports Rose was sworn in on May 7 and attended the following council meeting May 21.

Alabamians will start paying more for many online purchases beginning in October, as the state seeks to translate a recent Supreme Court ruling on internet transactions into revenue. Last month, the high court reversed a 26-year-old precedent and ruled that states could require online retailers to collect the sales tax even if the company has […]

During a Congressional Black Caucus-hosted ‘Panel on the State of Voting Rights’ last week, Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) said that “we have gone backwards” when it comes to voter suppression. Sewell made these remarks two days after the five-year anniversary of Shelby County v. Holder, a Supreme Court ruling which she and other Democrats say […]

More voters are expected at the polls for July’s primary election runoff than in recent years, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill told Yellowhammer News on Tuesday. Merrill expects turnout to be at around 15 to 18 percent. “I think it will be that high – even though that’s a low number – I think […]

A Marine veteran is running from Alabama to his hometown in Indiana to raise awareness about post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide among veterans. Kyle Killinger left a veterans memorial in Huntsville, Alabama, before dawn on Tuesday.