BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Three music festivals in Alabama, two of them in Birmingham, are featured on a new listsicle by Buzzfeed highlighting some of the South’s “Must See” music festivals of the summer. Slice Fest, celebrating its fourth year, will take place on June 6th in the Lakeview district of Birmingham. “This intimate festival promotes […]

LINCOLN, Alabama – A new $71.4 million engine assembly facility at Honda’s Alabama plant is so advanced that its 250 workers and 92 robots can turn out 1,500 V-6 engines per day, thanks to automated systems that can handle tasks such as assembling and installing pistons. The sophisticated new engine line at Honda’s facility in […]

StudentUniverse, a website that “empowers students and youth to travel” by offering them “exclusive discounts,” recently released a new travel blog running down the “sexiest colleges in the nation.” “We can all agree that someone’s sex appeal goes beyond a flat 1-10 rating,” explained StudentUniverse’s Danielle Millerick. “There are a number of factors that determine […]

According to an in-depth Buzzfeed News report, a 20-year-old Alabama college student from Hoover was radicalized through social media and ultimately abandoned her family to join the so called Islamic State. The student, who Buzzfeed identifies as “Hoda,” now resides in an ISIS-controlled area of Syria, leaving her family in Birmingham to wonder exactly how […]

Political and business leaders are urging U.S. Senator Richard Shelby to back reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States after a Senate committee hearing next month that could determine the fate of the vital overseas trading tool and continue helping manufactures like Michael McSweeney. Senator Shelby, R-Ala., is chairman of the Senate Banking […]

ALBERTVILLE, Ala. – Duty wouldn’t allow James Drain to attend prom when he was 18. He had a country to serve. While other students were enjoying the traditional rite of passage as high school seniors, he was far away from his Alabama home fighting in the Korean War. But this past weekend, over 60 years […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — On Wednesday’s Tax Day edition of Yellowhammer Radio, host Cliff Sims made a suggestion for how the country could radically change the way it views taxes and the IRS—by abolishing automatic income tax withholding and making Tax Day also Election Day. “Now, I’m getting my personal and business taxes prepared to go […]

Three defense contracting giants with significant Alabama ties are competing head-to-head for an estimated $55 billion contract to build the next ultra high-tech “B-3” stealth bomber. According to a POLITICO report, Northrup is spending some serious cash in Washington to campaign against Boeing, which is teaming up to subcontract with Lockheed Martin, all three of […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Governor Robert Bentley (R-AL) this week joined a majority of Governors across the country in sending a letter to Congress in support of the Export-Import bank. The Ex-Im bank, which requires Congressional reauthorization, will expire unless it is renewed by June 30th. The bank has received vocal support from many business groups, […]

(Video above: Hyundai communicates message to space) MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Korean Car maker Hyundai, which operates a plant near Montgomery, Alabama, has released a new video featuring a fleet of its luxury Genesis sedans artfully tracing a message so large it can be seen from space. In the four-minute video above, a team from Hyundai […]

(Above: Percy Sledge’s #1 hit ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’) BATON ROUGE, La. — Alabama Native and legendary R&B and Soul singer Percy Sledge passed away in hospice care in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at around 1 a.m. Tuesday. Sledge’s most famous work, “When a Man Loves a Woman,” was the first #1 hit recorded […]

AUBURN, Ala. — The Auburn City Council voted last week to “buy local” by awarding the $2.1 million bid submitted by Auburn-based Bailey-Harris Construction Co. to renovate Toomer’s Corner. A locally-owned and operated business since 1979, Bailey-Harris Construction Co. has built everything from high school football stadiums to educational buildings, and even the Montgomery County […]

A study by the American City Business Journals found that Birmingham could financially support a professional athletic team, but which sport would folks in the Birmingham metro area be most likely to attend? According to the report, Birmingham is an “underextended” market for professional sports, and has capacity for a soccer, hockey, basketball, or football […]

AUBURN UNIVERSITY — Auburn University has received the nation’s first FAA approval to operate a new Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight School as part of the Auburn University Aviation Center. “This is an honor for Auburn University,” said Bill Hutto, director of the Auburn University Aviation Center. “We will conduct commercial flight training for operators of […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Seasons 52 Fresh Grill in Birmingham is reaching out into the community to help address a problem that has become all too desperate in many of large cities across the country by working with the Old Firehouse Shelter to provide nutritious, wholesome meals for the chronically homeless men Firehouse serves. “This is […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Garden & Gun Magazine, a Southern lifestyle magazine, recently published an article describing 50 reasons it loves the land south of the Mason Dixon line, including the scent of Magnolias, our serious sense of hospitality, and obviously superior culinary offerings. In the article, Garden & Gun profiles Florence, Alabama’s Odette eatery, and […]

Imagine all the blinds closed on the windows of a dimly lit room. Twenty leaders from different churches in the area sat in a circle on the floor with their Bibles open. Some of them had sweat on their foreheads after walking for miles to get there. Others were dirty from the dust in the […]

Congratulations, Alabamians! Today is the day the non-profit Tax Foundation estimates you have worked long enough to have paid your combined federal, state, and local tax obligations! To pay what they owe the government, Alabamians must essentially fork over the equivalent of what they earned from the beginning of the year until today, April 9th. […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala — Yellowhammer confirmed Thursday that the yearly Business Council of Alabama’s (BCA) Chairman’s dinner will feature former Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill as its keynote speaker. O’Neill is a highly decorated veteran with a list of accomplishments and accolades a mile long. Perhaps his most impressive claim to fame, however, is being the member […]

Alcohol is a highly regulated product, as it should be. Laws that crack down on underage drinking or drunk driving are reasonable public policy concerns. Even the three-tier system, a sometimes-maligned regulatory structure that protects bars and package stores from being strong-armed by suppliers, was developed with the public interest in mind. Then there are […]

An effort to privatize Alabama’s retail liquor establishments met its demise Wednesday in the Alabama’s Senate’s General Fund Budget Committee. The bill, SB115, sponsored by Senator Arthur Orr (R-Decatur), lost on a recorded vote of 6-7. There is no way to sugar coat this: The vote clearly established that certain members of the Alabama Senate […]

According to Alabama Department of Finance data curated by the Birmingham Business Journal, the top 25 highest paid Alabama state employees made an average of $246,311 in 2014, a 3 percent bump from the year before. The most recent data available pegs Alabama’s median household income at $42,849, meaning the top 25 state employees make […]

MOBILE, Ala. — Four underage young men from Louisiana State University (LSU) were caught by a sheriff’s deputy in Mobile County, Alabama driving to Gulf Shores for Spring Break towing approximately 2,000 beers, five liters of boxed wine, and eight bottles of liquor. The students were pulled over because the trailer they were towing had […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A bill approved by the Alabama Senate Tuesday will affirm the rights of Alabamians to display religious symbols, such as nativities or menorahs, on public property, as long as other secular symbols or scenes are also displayed. “The Religious Display Freedom Act is designed to protect the Constitutional rights of cities, schools, […]