Labor Day weekend is here and we know many of you are heading to the lake for the long weekend. Whether boating, fishing, swimming or just relaxing by the water, keep safety a priority with these quick tips:

Alabama’s aerospace and defense sector is continuing its ascent on the world stage. The U.S. Army on Friday announced it is awarding two major contracts for work in Alabama related to the production of hypersonic weapon systems – one for Dynetics Technical Solutions in the amount of $351.6 million to produce Common-Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) […]

It took four months of detective work, but physicians at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found the rare cause of a woman’s medical issues. UAB’s joint pituitary disorders clinic, featuring the unusual combination of endocrinology and neurosurgery, identified and removed a pituitary tumor from Debra Nelson that had gone undiagnosed for more than six […]

Inappropriate adult behavior at high school athletic events in Alabama is a growing concern. When more than 2,000 high school athletic directors were asked in a recent national survey what they like least about their job, 62.3% said it was “dealing with aggressive parents and adult fans.” The men and women who wear the black […]

Want a beautiful piece of wildlife or nature art that you can carry with you wherever you go? Plus, you get a heck of a deal. You can get that piece of art for just $5 when you take advantage of Alabama’s new hard-card licenses that went on sale this week for the 2019-2020 hunting […]

President Donald Trump is strongly sticking by Governor Kay Ivey. As reported by University of Alabama alumna and Yellowhammer State native Kaitlan Collins, now covering the White House for CNN, Trump on Friday evening referenced the recently discovered radio clip from the mid-1960’s that featured Ivey’s then-fiancé saying Ivey had worn blackface while a student […]

See what’s going on around the state this holiday weekend. Backstreet Boys The Backstreet Boys “DNA World Tour” featuring Baylee Littrell is Wednesday, Sept. 4, at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex. The Grammy-nominated group was formed in 1993 and quickly rose to fame with hit songs “As long As You Love Me” and “Incomplete.” Baylee Litttrell’s […]

Thursday’s unexpected apology from Gov. Kay Ivey not only revealed Alabama still has not fully exorcised the demons of its past, it showed us that some members of the Alabama Legislature still feel jilted after the Rebuild Alabama Act passed this spring. Ahead of Thursday’s announcement, some members of the legislature were given a head’s […]

Patriots across Alabama have an added reason to celebrate this holiday weekend. Nextstar Media Group on Thursday announced that 171 of its nationwide affiliate stations across 100 markets will begin daily broadcasting of the Star-Spangled Banner this Labor Day, September 2. In Alabama, Nextstar owns Birmingham’s WIAT CBS 42; Huntsville’s WZDX Rocket City Now and WHDF; […]

Fans of the Alabama Crimson Tide now have a new way to receive information on game days in Tuscaloosa thanks to UA Info Radio. UA Info Radio broadcasts on 92.5 FM and streams through ready.ua.edu, the UA Safety app and the UA Gameday app, according to a release from the university. “We have one of the best game day […]

Governor Kay Ivey on Friday announced that she has approved the Alabama National Guard to send up to 50 support personnel to Florida, should the need arise due to Hurricane Dorian. “Alabamians believe in neighbors helping neighbors, and we stand ready to support the Floridians however we can,” Ivey said in a statement. “Alabama is […]

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Happy Birthday, Alabama! Did you know our great state is celebrating 200 years this December? With so many years of memories, the folks at Alabama200.org are making sure we each take a second to celebrate. The Alabama Bicentennial Commission has spent great time and effort putting together so many opportunities for Alabama’s citizens to celebrate […]

Montgomery Biscuits pitcher Blake Bivens was preparing for a double-header against the Chattanooga Lookouts on Tuesday morning when his entire world was turned upside down. From his usual gameday routine to knowing that no day will ever be the same, Bivens learned that his wife, one-year-old son and mother-in-law had been murdered in Virginia and […]

7. Then there were ten On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee announced the candidates who have qualified for the upcoming presidential primary debate on September 12 in Houston, and it’s only half of the last debate’s total. There are only ten candidates who have qualified for the upcoming debate: former Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. […]

For most of us in the state of Alabama, the opposition to the Mobile Bay Bridge and Bayview project was little more than an exercise in good government. Should we be using tolls after the state just raised gasoline taxes 10 cents a gallon? Will the Alabama Department of Transportation be looking at toll projects […]

Time and again over the past few years, we have witnessed a disturbing trend among liberals, namely that if you don’t agree with their positions that you are to be silenced, boycotted, or removed. This past weekend, the Executive Committee of the Alabama Republican Party jumped into the liberal playbook feet first when it passed […]

Alabama Republican Party Chairman Terry Lathan has responded to reports of Governor Kay Ivey allegedly wearing blackface during a skit while she was a student at Auburn University in the mid-1960’s. Ivey released a statement and a separate video apologizing, while saying she does not remember the alleged incident or ever wearing blackface in general. […]

Allegations are being made that Governor Kay Ivey wore blackface while a student at Auburn University in the mid-1960’s. This comes after Auburn’s student media discovered a radio clip from their archives in which Ivey was interviewed along with her then-fiancé, Ben LaRavia, when they were both seniors in college and she was Auburn’s SGA […]

Jacksonville State University (JSU) certainly turned some heads with the release of their football program’s hype video this week. The video, which features “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” playing throughout, opens a little, well, differently, than most. In conjunction with the religious music, the opening image of red paint dripping down a dangling arm immediately […]

Thursday during an appearance on Birmingham radio Talk 99.5’s “Matt & Aunie” show, Alabama Republican Party Chairwoman Terry Lathan defended her party’s passage of a resolution calling on Alabama’s congressional delegation to proceed with seeking the expulsion of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the U.S. House of Representatives. Lathan explained that the resolution, which […]

The new history book co-authored by Secretary of State John Merrill and Tom Ward is coming to a school near you. At Wednesday morning’s meeting of the School Superintendents of Alabama and State Superintendent of Education Dr. Eric Mackey in Montgomery, Merrill delivered almost 650 copies of the history book Alabama: The Bicentennial to 142 school […]

7. Space Command could come to Alabama Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal is on the shortlist for potential homes of the Space Command, along with four Air Force bases in Colorado and Vandenberg AFB in California. The winner will be announced Thursday at the White House. President Donald Trump will be part of the announcement for the […]

Tommy Tuberville’s U.S. Senate candidacy continues to pick up steam. Yellowhammer News has learned that a political action committee with major conservative bona fides formed on Thursday. Called “Grit PAC,” the committee fully intends to support Tuberville for the 2020 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Alabama.