LAS VEGAS — For a second consecutive year, Birmingham-based AerBetic’s diabetic alert device is making a splash at the world’s premier consumer tech show by collecting an CES Innovation Award at this week’s event. CES’ annual Innovation Awards program celebrates outstanding design across 28 product categories. A panel of judges evaluates products based on design, engineering, […]

Pine Hills and Oak Hollars Child Classic is an organization that takes sick kids on a weekend hunting trip in northwest Alabama.

In 2019, the Alabama Legislature took a shot at revising the state’s ethics law but came up short when the effort led by State Sen. Greg Albritton (R-Atmore) did not get consideration from the Senate Judiciary Committee. During a wide-ranging interview given during an appearance on Huntsville radio’s WVNN on Friday, State Senate President Pro-Tem […]

The state of Alabama reached several significant milestones and experienced many successes in 2019. We commemorated the 200th anniversary of Alabama’s statehood, saw a record low unemployment rate and witnessed new economic growth and development taking place across the state. When there are so many positives to celebrate, it can be simple to overlook the […]

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions brought his campaign for the Senate to the Mid-Alabama Republican Club meeting at the Vestavia Hills Library...

The streets of downtown Clanton fill with people shopping, getting a bite to eat for lunch and attending to business at City Hall. In the background, children laugh and scream while playing outside at a local day care. For most, the day is peaceful. Within earshot of all the activity is the Butterfly Bridge Children’s Advocacy […]

Alabama Power’s work in innovation, technology and economic development is taking it somewhere it’s never been before: CES 2020.

On May 24, 2018, Cole Burton stood along a road cut through the heart of Red Mountain in Birmingham. He and his fellow students from an Auburn University geology class were studying formations in the rock exposed when the road was dug. Burton took a moment to gaze to the north, over the sprawling campus of the University of Alabama […]

"You know, I'm not trying to please Chuck Schumer," Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) declared. "I'm not trying to necessarily please anyone."

Alabama’s economy is humming on all cylinders as a new decade begins, with job rolls swelling to record numbers and an ultra-low unemployment rate as major industries expand their operations in the state.While the foundations are firmly in place for more growth, there are some trends unfolding across Alabama that are poised to add an […]

Appearing like a miniature version of a mockingbird, the loggerhead shrike looks like any other songbird until you find evidence of the shrike’s lethal side. “Some people call them butcher birds or French mockingbirds,” said Eric Soehren, biologist and manager of the Alabama State Lands’ Wehle Land Conservation Center in southeast Alabama. “They may look […]

The Fourth Annual END HEROIN BHAM Walk will be held on February 29, 2020, at Veterans Park in Hoover, Alabama. The 2020 “Champion for the Cause” is famed Alabama weatherman James Spann. The event will be emceed by Magic 96.5’s Rob Conrad. The Walk is hosted by the Addiction Prevention Coalition. It began in 2017 […]

MOULTON, Alabama – An automotive supplier and a pipe fabricator will open new industrial facilities in Lawrence County, creating a combined 78 new jobs, according to the Lawrence County Industrial Development Board. CCI Manufacturing USA Corp., a Tier 1 auto supplier, will invest $21.5 million to construct an advanced production facility that will include a rail […]

Iconic painter Daniel Moore has released a preliminary pencil drawing of his special tribute artwork to departing Crimson Tide quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.

Wiregrass businessman Jeff Coleman on Friday released the fourth television ad in his Republican bid to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Martha Roby (AL-02).

Republican congressional candidate Jessica Taylor this week spoke with Yellowhammer News about the major pro-life endorsement she received last week.

U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) introduced an act to Congress on Friday that, if enacted, would go further towards preventing illegal immigrants from receiving social security payments, a practice already illegal under federal law. Brooks has termed the bill as the “No Social Security for Illegal Aliens Act of 2020.” “The prospect of ‘free’ government […]

As seen in a video, University of Alabama head strength coach Scott Cochran led early Crimson Tide football enrollees in a lesson...

The Huntsville-based HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology’s Tech Challenge (HATCH) will take place March 6-8, 2020. The institute announced Friday via a press release that they would be teaming with Acclinate Genetics and Urban Engine to expand the event in its now third year. “The Tech Challenge highlights HudsonAlpha’s collaborative environment that has proven successful over […]

Thursday during an appearance on Huntsville radio’s WVNN, U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) said he would not be influenced by political forces on either the right or the left regarding his vote on impeachment. Media reports in recent days had raised questions about the possibility Jones would “defect” and vote to acquit President Donald […]

Mo Brooks: "It appeared defense & intelligence reps held back info out of concern too many Congressmen can't be trusted to keep classified info from...

U.S. Representative Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) is calling for Pelosi to be censured

President Donald Trump credited a space-based early warning system with helping save the lives of American and coalition forces during this week’s Iranian missile attacks on U.S. installations in Iraq. The American military’s early warning defense system runs through a constellation of satellites orbiting Earth, and Alabamians built the rockets which powered those satellites into […]

Senator Richard Shelby signed onto a resolution condemning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for withholding from the Senate the two articles of impeachment...