Sarah Palin is no stranger to controversy, much of it coming as a result of her incessant assault on liberal ideology and her penchant for delivering comments that make the mainstream media’s blood boil. This week, however, Palin has finally gotten herself in hot water with her fellow conservatives. While speaking at the National Rifle […]

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a Washington, D.C.-based gay rights advocacy group, has just announced the launch of a multi-million dollar campaign for LGBT equality in Southern states, including Alabama. The new initiative, which HRC has dubbed “Project One America,” will be backed by $8.5 million of the group’s money and will focus on “using […]

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley over the weekend released a stirring video tribute to the Alabamians who were lost in the massive tornado outbreak three years ago. “On this the anniversary of the greatest natural disaster in Alabama history, I want to take this moment to join our fellow Alabamians in honoring and remembering those who […]

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joins Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims to discuss her new television show, “Amazing America;” where she sees herself fitting in to the conservative movement; the GOP’s chances to win back the senate; what she thinks about the rift between the “establishment” and the Tea Party, and more. Oh, and Alabama? […]

As news agencies across the country announced the death of Admiral Denton, “War hero, Vietnam POW, Admiral and Senator” crossed the headlines. He was all of those, indeed. And more. Often forgotten is the international impact Denton, a native of Mobile, Ala., had in some of the farthest reaching corners of the Earth. For example… […]

ESPN’s brand new SEC Network is set to launch the first day of the 2014 college football season, Aug. 14. To spread the word about the new network and to encourage fans to tell their cable or satellite provider to add the network to their lineup, ESPN has rolled out 14 school-specific ads. The ads […]

Join host AJ Johnson as he makes his way around Alabama checking out some of the state’s best eateries — from hole-in-the-wall joints that locals love, to world-famous 5-star restaurants that make food critics’ mouths water. Today, AJ is in the Edgewood neighborhood of Homewood, Ala., at Saw’s barbecue. “This is what you call a […]

Rep. Paul DeMarco today picked up the endorsement of popular State Sen. Cam Ward, R-Alabaster, in his bid for U.S. House in Alabama’s 6th Congressional District. Ward served two terms in the Alabama House of Representatives before being elected to the Alabama Senate in 2010. His state senate district makes up a big chunk of […]

WASHINGTON — Alabama Sens. Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby, joined with several of their Senate Republican colleagues today in sending a letter to President Obama expressing “grave concerns” about the Administration’s refusal to enforce the country’s immigration laws. “The evidence proves that the Administration has collapsed immigration enforcement,” Sen. Sessions said. “As a result, millions […]

Rep. Barry Moore, R-Enterprise, was indicted this morning at the Lee County Courthouse for allegedly perjuring himself during grand jury testimony. Moore’s attorney released the following statement in response to the charges: Regrettably, Rep. Barry Moore has been made the subject of a grand jury indictment alleging that he perjured himself by failing to recall […]

Quick Hits: • The Alabama Foundation for Limited Government is a front group being used to attack Republicans. • The foundation has been suspected of hiding its connection to the Alabama Education Association (AEA) and to liberal political operatives funneling millions of dollars into their attack ads. • Documents uncovered by Yellowhammer News reveal that […]

The News in 90 Seconds is a brand new feature on Yellowhammer in which we take a complex issue and boil it down into a short video to make it more understandable. We’ll be exploring a wide range of topics in the coming months. Today we’re breaking down the growing environmentalist movement in our state. […]

Alabama loves it’s football. There’s no doubt about that. So you would be forgiven for assuming that Alabama’s most googled athlete is a Bama quarterback with a model for a fiancé or an Auburn QB with Heisman hopes and 4.4 speed. Forgiven, that is, because you would be wrong. As a matter of fact, Alabamians are […]

The Daily Meal, a website that claims to produce “more culinary content than any other resource,” has awarded Birmingham, Alabama-based Jim N’ Nick’s the top spot on their new list of “The 10 Best Barbecue Chains in America.” Not far behind is Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based Moe’s Original BBQ, coming in at number 9. Not only did […]

Although Republicans have had a pretty dismal run lately in presidential election years, midterm elections have given the GOP a chance to make up some ground. Most notably, the Tea Party wave of 2010 (GOP picked up a whopping 63 seats in the House) installed a Republican majority in the U.S. House that has a […]

The Alabama Republican Party announced on Monday that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will headline the ALGOP Summer Dinner on Friday, June 20, at the at the Cahaba Grand Conference Center in Birmingham. Gov. Pence served in Congress for 12 years before being elected governor in 2012. During his tenure in the U.S. House, he served […]

6th Congressional District candidate Will Brooke raised some eyebrows during a candidate forum at Hoover High School on Monday after expressing his support for “a path to legal status” for illegal immigrants and calling for “comprehensive immigration reform,” both phrases that have become red flags to some in the conservative base. Later in the debate […]

Alabama State Rep. Steve Hurst, R-Mumford, is pulling out the big guns in his effort to fight off a Republican primary challenge in House District 35, which he has represented since 1998. The Hurst campaign has been seen driving around his Calhoun and Talladega County house district with a giant revolver in tow. The photo […]

(Above: A night with the Birmingham Barons at Regions Field) Yellowhammer is traveling to every corner of Alabama capturing video footage for a series of videos we’re calling “This is Alabama…” Yellowhammer’s first “This is Alabama…” video documented a day at the State House and Capitol in Montgomery. Our second is footage compiled after spending […]

One of the country’s most widely read conservative media outlets is hailing Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as “arguably the leading intellectual force against amnesty in Congress.” Breitbart News said in an exclusive piece posted last week that Sessions is “coming out swinging” against what they referred to as a “secretive house immigration push” backed by […]

The horror stories related to the unfortunately named Affordable Care Act continue to pile up. This time, its widows who were married to retired Madison County (Ala.) employees who are in the crosshairs of the president’s healthcare law. Widows have always been covered under the Madison County’s self-insured healthcare plan. But they lost their coverage […]

The Alabama Legislature in 2007 — at the time controlled by Democrats — passed themselves a 62% pay raise, which also included automatic increases to their monthly expense allowance to coincide with any increase in the consumer price index. The Republican-controlled Legislature in 2012 repealed the pay increase and tied legislative pay to median household […]

What can a major political scandal teach us about the historicity of Christ’s resurrection? Before his conversion and founding of Prison Fellowship, the late Chuck Colson spent seven months in prison for his involvement in the Watergate scandal as a Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon. In his book Loving God, Colson makes a surprising […]

(Above: Yellowhammer CEO Cliff Sims interviews Great Souther Wood CEO Jimmy Rane) Yellowhammer’s video crew sat in a nearly empty 1950s-style soda shop in Abbeville, Ala. around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon and started recapping everything we had seen over the previous several hours. Abbeville, the oldest remaining colonial settlement in East Alabama, is a town […]