With an apparent victory in spearheading a movement that stopped the Alabama Department of Transportation’s construction of an Interstate 10 Mobile Bay Bridge financed in part by tolls in his back pocket, speculation has been rampant State Auditor Jim Zeigler could seek a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The departure of incumbent U.S. […]

Thursday during an appearance on “Alabama’s Morning News with JT” on Birmingham’s News Radio 105.5 WERC, former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville, a candidate for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat up in 2020, spoke about the turmoil surrounding President Donald Trump and the threat of impeachment. Tuberville suggested Trump was facing backlash from Washington, D.C. […]

On this week’s episode, DrunkAubie reacts to the beatdown on the Mississippi State Bulldogs, talks about what happened around college football and predicts the Florida game. DrunkAubie takes a look at the gator in its natural habitat and shares some interesting facts about gators that were definitely not made up. RIP Steve Irwin.

Yellowhammer Multimedia on Thursday released the third segment of the 2019 Power & Influence 40. Our team has spent weeks talking with key operatives and analyzing recent developments in public policy and politics, and this list is meant to recognize the top individuals in government and politics who leverage their power and influence to better […]

The Alabama Ethics Commission has voted to refer a complaint against Montgomery Sen. David Burkette to the Montgomery County District Attorney for review. It was not immediately clear Wednesday what the complaint entailed, or when the alleged offense occurred, The Montgomery Advertiser reported.

According to the Small Business Administration, there over 20 million small businesses in the United States. Sadly, less than 35% of them will still be around in 10 years. Even worse, with the right kind of help, many could have been saved.  Armed with over five decades of proven success, Team Delta 3 is ready […]

An Alabama state lawmaker and dozens of pastors are calling for the city of Birmingham to be declared “a sanctuary for preborn children.” AL.com reports Republican Rep. Arnold Mooney and five pastors presented the Birmingham Proclamation to the State House on Wednesday.

University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban is considered by many to be the greatest coach in the history of college football — he is one of the biggest names in sports. But what happened when I walked around our nation’s capital just a few days ago? I quickly found out that even Coach […]

Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday released an extra, conditional state appropriation that when matched with federal dollars will provide a total of $78 million in extra payments to state hospitals for treating Medicaid beneficiaries. She released a conditional appropriation of $22 million in state dollars for Alabama Medicaid to increase reimbursements to hospitals for treating Medicaid […]

The Trump administration has announced a decision hugely beneficial to coastal Alabama’s aerospace industry. While a World Trade Organization decision on Wednesday paved the way for the United States to impose sanctions on many goods made in the European Union, including a 10% tariff on Airbus aircraft built in the EU, critical component parts imported […]

The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday announced the successful flight test of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which are managed by Boeing in North Alabama. The test was conducted early that morning at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The ICBM was equipped with a test reentry vehicle. The Minuteman III is the […]

7. First vaping death in Alabama A vaping related illness has spread across the country with more than 800 cases and 12 deaths confirmed, including 19 cases of the disease in Alabama; now the state has its first confirmed death. The Alabama Department of Public Health continues to say that everyone using e-cigarettes or vape […]

Yellowhammer Multimedia on Thursday announced that 24-time Emmy Award winning television anchor Rick Karle will be a special sports contributor to Yellowhammer News for the remainder of the 2019 college football season. Many Alabamians will recognize Karle as the iconic sports director at WBRC FOX6 from 1989 to December 2018. Yellowhammer is excited to bring […]

Yellowhammer Multimedia on Thursday announced it will present this year’s Power of Service Award to Horace Horn of PowerSouth Energy Cooperative. Yellowhammer will present the award at its annual Power of Service event set to take place on October 17 in Montgomery. Horn currently serves as vice president for external affairs at PowerSouth. Yellowhammer is […]

Wednesday, former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville’s 2020 U.S. Senate effort got a shot in the arm with its first major endorsement from a prominent elected official. State Sen. Tom Whatley (R-Auburn) formally announced his endorsement of Tuberville’s candidacy. Whatley’s announcement is the second of such in recent weeks as the Alabama Farmers […]

The historic project to upgrade the Port of Mobile continues to move forward following official federal authorization last month. The Alabama State Port Authority director and CEO James K. “Jimmy” Lyons and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district commander Colonel Sebastien Joly on Wednesday signed the Mobile Harbor Pre-Construction, Engineering and Design Agreement at the […]

Yellowhammer Multimedia on Wednesday released the second segment of the 2019 Power & Influence 40. Our team has spent weeks talking with key operatives and analyzing recent developments in public policy and politics, and this list is meant to recognize the top individuals in government and politics who leverage their power and influence to better […]

Is Decatur a sanctuary city? Legally? Technically? Not anymore, I guess, but it was. Following the media attention generated by this policy enacted by the Decatur Police Department’s Chief of Police Nate Allen, there was back-and-forth between the chief, Decatur Mayor Tab Bowling and the Decatur City Council. They have since come to an agreement […]

State Senator Tom Whatley (R-Auburn) was elected chairman of the Alabama legislature’s Joint Committee on Self-Driving Vehicles. The committee, which is composed of five state senators and five state representatives, was created by the state legislature in 2019 in order to “study all aspects of self-driving vehicles … including specifically, the issues of public safety […]

Manufacture Alabama on Wednesday announced that it has named Garrett Jemison, a former state director for Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL), as the organization’s first ever chief operating officer. Jemison most recently served as a government affairs consultant in both Montgomery and Washington, D.C., representing energy companies such as PowerSouth, higher education institutions, chambers of commerce […]

Alabama’s workforce programs have undergone several changes in the past couple years and to say that this has caused some confusion would be a huge understatement! I liken it to the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act which created the beginnings of the Interstate system that focused on building a system of connected roads that would funnel […]

Forecasters say the first day of October brought more record high temperatures across Alabama. The National Weather Service says Muscle Shoals in northwestern Alabama had its hottest October temperature ever recorded when the mercury hit 99 degrees (37 Celsius) on Tuesday.

Regulators say catch limits for red grouper in the Gulf of Mexico will stay at this year’s levels indefinitely. This year’s catch limits and targets were about 60% lower than 2018 levels.

Former state legislator Pete Turnham, who was a force in the Alabama House of Representatives for decades, died Monday. He was 99.