MONTGOMERY — Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh is running for re-election as president of the Alabama Public Service Commission (PSC), she confirmed in an interview with Yellowhammer News on Monday, stressing that the “Green New Deal is the most dangerous policy proposal of our lifetime.” Cavanaugh, the former chair of the Alabama Republican Party and one of […]

Annette Funderburk, president J.F. Ingram State Technical College The job market in Alabama is growing, and the unemployment rate has reached low levels not seen in many years. Businesses across the state are working harder than ever to find and hire qualified workers. According to Governor Ivey’s Success Plus initiative, our state will need an […]

Jimmy Wales, an Alabama native and the founder of Wikipedia, is catching heat after he dramatically left his country of residence just because of President Donald Trump’s diplomatic visit to the United Kingdom. Just hours before Air Force One touched down on Monday morning, Wales tweeted that he was en route to the airport and […]

Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield will lead an Alabama delegation to Montréal for the 12th edition of the Southeastern United States-Canadian Provinces Alliance Conference, an annual gathering that showcases common economic ties and a strong trade relationship. SEUS-CP, as the conference is known, runs Sunday through Tuesday in the Québec’s largest city. The event, whose theme […]

A pair of Birmingham construction juggernauts were named as the two largest health care contractors in the nation, with two more firms named to the top-20. According to Modern Healthcare‘s just-released rankings for 2018, the Magic City is the national leader in the health care construction field. The Birmingham Business Journal reported that Brasfield & […]

7. No preconditions for Iran On Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the Trump administration is willing to talk to Iran with no preconditions, however, sanctions already placed on Iran will stay in effect. Tensions between Iran and the United States have been escalating dramatically. Trump has previously stated that war between the […]

Hurricane season began Saturday and runs through Nov. 30. Lately, the season has been kicking off early. Last month, short-lived subtropical storm Andrea became the first named storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. It is the fifth year in a row that the first storm of the season formed prior to June 1. Whenever […]

President Donald Trump on Sunday made an unannounced visit to Vienna, Virginia’s McLean Bible Church, where Pastor David Platt, formerly of the Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, movingly prayed for the president on stage. According to the White House, Trump decided to make the under-the-radar trip “to visit with the pastor and pray […]

When Vice President Mike Pence announced plans to launch a lunar mission by 2024, it was as if someone had placed the nation’s renewed interest in human spaceflight inside of an accelerator. Suddenly there was a timeline. A palpable air of urgency arose. Some balked at the enormity of the task ahead. Without question returning […]

Efforts by the Alabama legislature to change the current ethics laws regarding state officials and employees were met with some opposition during the 2019 legislative general session. Leading the way on the effort in 2019 was State Sen. Greg Albritton (R-Atmore), but had his bid declared dead for the session back in April by Senate […]

Sunday is National Cancer Survivor Day, and while Alabama has many survivors to celebrate, researchers and medical professionals in the Yellowhammer State have also been at the forefront in the battle against cancer for decades. Take, for example, Birmingham’s Southern Research, an organization which Yellowhammer News this spring reported has already been involved in the […]

It’s 275 days until Alabama Republicans head to the polls to vote for their preference on who will represent the GOP on the November 2020 general election ballot. Even this far out, it is a solid bet incumbent President Donald Trump will win the 2020 Republican presidential primary in Alabama. How might that assumption impact […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Did FBI special counsel Mueller say anything new in his statement to the media? — Will Alabama’s abortion ban really hurt the state economically? — Who is clamoring for a Roy Moore candidacy?

When teams score 13 runs in a baseball game, you might say they are lighting up the scoreboard. Unless you’re talking about Wednesday’s 23rd annual Rickwood Classic game, in which the Montgomery Biscuits beat the Birmingham Barons 9-4. The high-scoring contest didn’t light up the scoreboard at Rickwood Field because the scoring on the board beyond the outfield fence isn’t kept by electrically […]

Shumerria Harris was standing on stage at Alabama State University when she delivered a line that would change her life. “I was in the play ‘Six Characters In Search of an Author,’ playing the old character lady,” she remembered. “One of the other characters tried to take my hat and I said, ‘Back up! Gimme 50 feet!’ […]

The Birmingham Business Alliance will kick off its annual summer intern engagement program, Magic City Summer, Monday in downtown Birmingham. Magic City Summer is a series of free social events that connect summer interns to Birmingham’s culture, communities and influencers. Participants will enjoy a VIP summer experience, receiving discounts for some of Birmingham’s most popular […]

A utility-scale solar project, developed with a $125 million investment, is planned for rural Montgomery County. The project from Alabama Municipal Electric Authority (AMEA) and Lightsource BP will be one of the largest solar arrays in Alabama when it reaches completion in 2021, deploying over 350,000 solar panels across 800 acres.

The University of South Alabama community reflects with joy, sadness, optimism and apprehension on the discovery of the Clotilda in the Mobile Delta. The remains of the Clotilda were recently found by marine archaeologists in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta near the Plateau/Africatown area of Mobile. The Alabama Historical Commission unveiled the discovery to descendants of the […]

For the last week of May, Congress was out of session for a district work period, and I had the opportunity to travel around the Second District. Throughout the week, I visited with constituents and local leaders, toured businesses and industries and spent time with some of our servicemembers at Dannelly Field in Montgomery. During […]

Alabama and other states have recently passed new laws restricting or criminalizing abortion to challenge the Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark decision in Roe v. Wade in the wake of Justice Kavanaugh’s appointment. America’s founders saw a role for federalism in managing disagreements. But recent abortion, same-sex marriage and transgender bathroom controversies raise doubts whether federalism […]

Clarence Carter taught himself to play guitar while attending the Alabama School for the Blind in Talladega. This Alabama music maker, a rhythm and blues singer from Montgomery, still performs at age 83. Carter is best known for his 1970 hit “Patches,” about a boy who was forced to care for his family after his […]

MUSCLE SHOALS — Despite having voted with President Donald Trump nearly 97% of the time over his career (and 100% of the time in 2019), there’s one thing that continues to dog U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope), a 2020 candidate for U.S. Senate, regarding his relationship with the current commander-in-chief. Back in October 2016, Byrne […]

MONTGOMERY — In separate interviews immediately following the end of the Alabama legislature’s 2019 regular session, Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh (R-Anniston) and House Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) both discussed the lottery proposal that died in the lower chamber in recent weeks. SB 220, sponsored by State Sen. Greg Albritton (R-Atmore), was considered a […]

Alabama lawmakers ended the 2019 legislative session on Friday. Here’s a look at some of the proposals that passed and failed this year. WHAT WAS APPROVED: