MONTGOMERY – Wednesday morning at the RSA Alabama Activity Center, Gov. Kay Ivey addressed the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce and highlighted economic accomplishments for the River Region and around the state as well. Ivey maintained she had achieved her initial pledge to steady the ship of state and said she was looking forward. “When I […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: NEW BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY FIND IN JERUSALEM TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, a new news item out of Israel’s newspaper Haaretz: Archaeologists recently announced they had found a fantastically preserved seal impression that was made by a Biblical governor of Jerusalem. The seal dates […]

Yellowhammer News had more than just a front row seat to see the filming of the newly released, powerful war drama “12 Strong” thanks to the team from Xtreme Concepts, Inc. a Birmingham based defense contractor who has previously worked as consultants and technical experts on such films as “American Sniper”. Yellowhammer CEO BJ Ellis […]

OZARK – Tuesday at Hoppergrass Restaurant just a block away from the Dale County Courthouse deep in the heart of Alabama’s Wiregrass region, Rep. Martha Roby (R-Montgomery) addressed the local Rotary Club with an update from Washington, D.C., highlighting accomplishments from the previous year and what to look forward to in 2018. Roby explained that despite […]

Late Tuesday, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks) announced he would be supporting the effort to release a House Intelligence Committee memo that allegedly involves the FBI, the Department of Justice and President Donald Trump and is said to the “very foundations of our democracy.” From the Facebook page of @RepMikeRogersAL#ReleaseTheMemo#alpoliticspic.twitter.com/Ht9qCTuJGQ — Terry Lathan (@ChairmanLathan) January 24, […]

Government shutting down is not a disaster. The real disaster is paying $4 trillion a year to keep it running and getting such poor service in return.

    Lee County Public Fishing Lake will reopen on February 1, 2018, under the operation of new lake managers Chris and Tina Wright. The lake had been temporarily closed during the transition of operations to the new lake managers. Lee County Public Fishing Lake is located 6 miles southeast of Opelika (or 9 miles east […]

    The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. Senator Chuck Schumer is signalling that he is ready for another shutdown — In an effort to avoid the government shutdown, Schumer says he put some amount of funding for the border wall on the table; he has now taken that offer away. […]

  Late Tuesday, the Alabama House of Representatives voted 67-31 on a party-line vote to end special elections to determine who would occupy Alabama’s U.S. Senate seats if one should become vacant. According to the Montgomery Advertiser’s Brian Lyman, that bill was held up by a two-hour filibuster from Democrats. The bill’s passage comes on the heels […]

Love her or hate her, there is no denying the brevity and resilience Sarah Huckabee Sanders exhibits each time she steps behind the White House Press Secretary podium. Since taking office, President Trump has faced an extreme amount of criticism. Some of the criticism was deserved, some of it wasn’t. Regardless of what the criticism […]

  Editor’s note: This is a round-up of the day’s major events in Montgomery. Day five of the 2018 Alabama legislative session brought a push to restrict when law enforcement authorities can seize private property, renewed action by a public corruption grand jury and a move to end special elections when U.S. senators leave office […]

  Yellowhammer News will host its inaugural “Yellowhammer News Shapers” reception with Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh and Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon at 5 p.m. today at the Alabama Association of Realtors, 522 Washington Ave. in Montgomery. Topics discussed will include issues surrounding this year’s legislative session. Huntsville talk show host […]

  OZARK — Tuesday at the Hoppergrass Restaurant, Rep. Martha Roby (R-Montgomery) addressed a gathering of the Ozark Rotary Club and offered an update on what was going on in the nation’s capital. Following the event, Roby took a question from Yellowhammer News about the politically charged FISA memo in the hands of the House Intelligence […]

We must call on the Alabama legislature to vote for civil asset forfeiture reforms that eliminate this unconstitutional potential for abuse that happens.

(Opinion) The n-word is in the news, which happens regularly. An ex-University of Alabama sorority member, an ex-Georgia Southern soccer player, and now a teacher at Hoover High School, find their lives destroyed over their use of the stupid and racist word. Every time this happens, someone makes the absurd argument that there is some […]

The Twitter story made me remember in Numbers, it says, “Be sure your sins will find you out,” and in Galatians, “What a man sows, he’ll also reap.”

To love is to will the good of the other as other. It is to break out of the black hole of one’s own self-regard and truly desire what is best for another.

    President Donald Trump said, “We are going to take a strong look at our country’s libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts.” The president was responding to statements made in Michael Wolff’s new book, “Fire and […]

  Craig Lipscomb, a Gadsden architect, filed paperwork with the Alabama Republican Party to qualify as a candidate for the Alabama House of Representatives in District 30. That seat is being vacated by Mack Butler, who is running for the Alabama State Senate. “I am honored to run for the Republican nomination for House District 30,” Lipscomb […]

  The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. There is still no clear bill on immigration that can pass the House and Senate — The bill to end the government shutdown includes a promise to bring a vote on immigration to the Senate; no one knows what that bill is. — Unfortunately […]

  Alabama tops the country in public corruption, according to a new study examining perceptions of wrongdoing across the country. The report by Illinois State University’s Institute for Corruption Studies ranks Alabama as the most corrupt state in the union for 2017 when it comes to what researchers call “legal corruption” — conduct by public […]

  A cake-decorating hobby gone awry. Mandi Buckalew said that’s how her studio, Cakeapotamus LLC, got its start. She creates custom cakes for weddings, birthday parties and corporate and community events, specializing in odd, unusual and often geeky designs. Buckalew, who was a certified special-education teacher at a middle school in those days, said baking started […]

  (Opinion) Senate Democrats shutdown the federal government over illegal immigration. We can debate the particulars of their motivations until we are blue in the face, but it was about 800,000 or 3.6 million illegal “children” aged 12 to 35. What exactly do Democrats want to do about this, that can actually pass? I have […]

    After the stress of the holidays, you deserve a few days away from work and home. An Alabama state park is the perfect place to help you recharge and get ready for the new year without draining your bank account. Select parks are currently offering winter specials on overnight accommodations now through February […]