BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB) is considering spending $200,000 to explore whether the city should bottle and sell its water. The board expects to compete with such beverage giants as Coca-Cola and Pepsi. The plan is being pushed by board member Sherry Lewis, who attended the International Bottled Water Association annual […]

CULLMAN, Ala. — Much of north Alabama was covered in a thick blanket of snow yesterday, and though many residents couldn’t get out and take a look around, Kevin Henderson, with Alabama Aerial Photography flew a drone to capture the snow-covered city. Check out the beautiful footage he captured of downtown Cullman Wednesday evening in […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Used car salesmen in general get a pretty bad rap, but Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange may have just shut down the most corrupt used car shyster in the state. A Circuit Judge in Elmore County granted the Attorney General’s request this week for a temporary restraining order and to seize the […]

If you’re an engineering student at one of Alabama’s fine universities, you won’t need to move far away to get your dream job. According to personal finance and economics website NerdWallet, Huntsville is the best place in the nation for engineers, and nearby Decatur comes in pretty high too, at No. 8 on the list. […]

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Governor Robert Bentley’s (R-Ala.) pastor Dr. Gil McKee reportedly sent the Governor a message about same-sex marriage earlier this month: “Governor, I don’t care if all 49 states go for this same-sex marriage business, let’s be different in the state of Alabama.” Gov. Bentley has been a member of Dr. McKee’s congregation […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqVF-EyCDs8 (Video above: “Frozen” parody to celebrate Alabama winter school closings) The students and teachers at Simmons Middle School, part of the Hoover City School system, celebrated the announcement of Wednesday’s snow day by creating their own version of “Let it Go” from the 2013 Disney mega hit “Frozen.” Listen for references to Alabama celebrity […]

(Video above: Leland Live’s “Black Ice Baby”) Alabama talk radio host Leland Whaley and DJ Allen “AJ” Johnson, whose show “Leland Live” comes on every afternoon from 4-7pm on Superstation 101 WYDE in central and north Alabama, put together a hilarious parody of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” to remind us all to stay safe […]

Ryan Brown, co-host of the Alabama-based “JOX Roundtable” radio show took to Facebook on Tuesday to share a few important tips for surviving Wednesday’s impending snow storm. It appears Wednesday is bringing a snow storm that we’ll all be lucky to survive. With that in mind, I’ve come up with 10 tips to help you […]

While this season has been anything but easy for the Alabama men’s basketball team, it has still served as a point of inspiration for one fan. Alabama head coach Anthony Grant traded his normal dress shoes for basketball shoes during Saturday’s 66-65 overtime loss to Georgia to honor Luke Kelly, a 5-year-old fan of the […]

Alabamian and disabled veteran Noah Galloway, who was featured on the cover of Men’s Health Magazine in October of last year, will compete on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars in its new season premiering March 16th. Galloway shared his story last year in an interview with Ellen Degeneres. “I was going to UAB and I […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — When Casey Marriott, a 2011 University of Alabama graduate and die-hard Crimson Tide fan, half-jokingly invited Nick and Terry Saban to her wedding, she didn’t expect a reply. “When going over my list for the wedding, I daydreamed and got off topic by thinking about who I could invite that could be […]

WASHINGTON — Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on Monday seemed to defend the legal argument being made by Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore that federal judge Callie Granade has no jurisdiction over the state’s probate judges and therefore cannot order them to issue same-sex marriage licenses. Though Sen. Shelby said he hasn’t talked to […]

The John Locke Foundation has just released its latest Freedom Index, a state-by-state ranking of which state’s citizens enjoy the most liberty, and Alabama’s spot on the list may come as a bit of a surprise, especially considering the state’s motto is We Dare Defend Our Rights. The free-market think tank measured fiscal, education, regulatory, […]

BIRMINGHAM – Tokyo-based Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. teamed up with Birmingham-based Protective Life Corp. Monday morning to announce $4.1 million in donations that will have significant impacts on medical research, education and culture in Alabama. The donations announced today follow the Feb. 1 completion of a formal merger between Dai-ichi, Japan’s second largest life insurance […]

Legendary meteorologist James Spann took to Facebook on Monday to vent about the “trolls, haters and know-it-alls” who send him and his colleagues “hateful messages” about forecasts they believe are inaccurate, when in actuality they are just looking at outdated information. Dear Trolls, Haters, and Know-It-Alls: The next few days will be very challenging due […]

Predicting the winners of the Academy Awards is a serious business. It takes a level of expertise that few have. Ok, a lot of people have the ability to pick random winners, but now is the time to weed out the amateurs and get to the challenge of getting these things correct. The Grand Budapest […]

LOCUST FORK, Ala. — Police have arrested Locust Fork High School assistant principal Tim Clevenger in Blount County on felony charges that he videoed a 14-year old girl in the shower without her knowledge. The 48-year old Clevenger allegedly taped the girl preparing for a shower at his home, where she was a visitor, through […]

(Video above: The must-watch story of the Raffel family) Alabama freshman Kyle Orrefice began a project called Give Back Films (GBF) with his friend Josh Gibson in 2013, garnering millions of views and changing dozens of people’s lives, but their latest video may just make you reach for the tissues. Mike and Mikelle Raffel met […]

Troy, Ala. — Defense contractor and aerospace company Lockheed Martin is expanding operations at its missile production program near Troy, in Pike County, Alabama, adding an estimated 240 jobs. “Despite the challenging economy we’ve experienced over the last five years, we’ve continued to grow here by over 65 percent,” David Anderson, Pike County Operations Site […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It is no secret that Alabama is smack-dab in the middle of the Bible Belt, but just how many Alabamians actually attend religious services regularly? According to a new Gallup poll, Alabama ranks 3rd in the nation for percentage of people who attend church weekly. 46 percent of Alabamians surveyed told Gallup […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The pro-LGBT group, Human Rights Campaign Alabama, is reportedly delivering petitions with the signatures of 28,000 same-sex marriage activists to the Judicial Inquiry Commission in an attempt to oust Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore. The group collected the signatures in support of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s effort to bring […]

A newly released study by the Heritage Foundation estimates that Alabama will lose 10,718 jobs as a result of the Obama Administration’s climate policies. That represents a reduction of 4.14 percent of the state’s total number of manufacturing jobs, making Alabama the seventh most negatively impacted state in the country, by percentage. “Every state would […]

Alabama has built some of the country’s most beautiful and functional cars over the last fifteen years, but did you know that since 2006, the state has also been home to the coolest motorcycle company in the world? Confederate Motorcycles moved to downtown Birmingham after Hurricane Katrina decimated the company’s New Orleans factory. The company […]