On what was one of the wildest days college football fans have seen in a long time, the Auburn Tigers landed their new head coach on Sunday when they hired South Florida’s Alex Golesh as their new head of the program. Auburn landed Golesh in the middle of a hectic coaching carousel cycle, and they’re […]

Dream Motor Group, led by legendary former Alabama head coach Nick Saban and automotive executive Joe Agresti, has finalized a $151 million acquisition of Toyota of Montgomery and Lexus of Montgomery. The sale was announced in a press release from Pinnacle M&A. Car Dealership Guy previously reported that the deal had been foreshadowed when Saban’s […]

A friendly Iron Bowl rivalry has once again turned into a major win for Alabama families in need. According to the University of Alabama News Center, this year’s Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive raised a record 630,624 pounds of food, providing meals for West Alabamians facing food insecurity. The results were announced Friday morning […]

State leaders, conservation partners, and landowners gathered Nov. 6 at The Ridge in Greene County to launch a major effort to restore one of Alabama’s most endangered landscapes — the Black Belt Prairie. The Alabama Soil and Water Conservation Committee (ALSWCC) announced the start of the Alabama Blackbelt Prairie Initiative, a five-year restoration project supported […]

7. U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Huntsville) led Alabama’s congressional delegation in urging the Army secretary to select Redstone Arsenal for Project Janus microreactor deployment, highlighting its defense expertise to bolster energy security for NASA, FBI, and U.S. Space Command in North Alabama. 6. Black Friday 2025 spending surged 9.1% online to $11.8 billion despite tariffs […]

The Auburn Tigers have themselves a new coach. Less than 12 hours after a heartbreaking Iron Bowl defeat to the Alabama Crimson Tide, Auburn has announced its hiring of University of South Florida now former head coach Alex Golesh as the new man in charge of their program following the end of the Hugh Freeze […]

 Why did 6 Democrats call for the military to disobey “unlawful orders’? Can Democrats continue to run terrible candidates in the South like Aftyn Behn in Tennessee and Jeremy Devito in Alabama? Will the lawfare between Democrats and President Donald Trump ever end? All this and more on Alabama Politics This Week, on TV, […]

The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences has set the standard for educating and training countless health care professionals who have improved health care across the state’s rural areas. CCHS Rural Programs’ history started 30 years ago with the creation of the Rural Medical Scholars Program, a five-year medical education program exclusively for rural […]

We all have those moments in life where the path we thought we were following becomes the path less traveled. When the path veers off in some unthinkably horrible direction. We think “there is no way I will ever recover from this.” Blink twice if this has ever happened to you. Perhaps it was the […]

What happened to the quail is a question that has been asked countless times, and although the question has been answered countless times, people are still asking the question. Out of curiosity, I conducted a search on a popular social media site to see what people were saying about the quail decline. My findings did […]

The 1960’s was a very tumultuous and consequential decade. One of the prolonged problems that came home to roost in that era was the Civil Rights issue. Lyndon B. Johnson had become President after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Johnson was a ruthless “win at all costs” former Senator from Texas. […]

Regions Bank is committed to educating their customers and the public about the latest in fraud prevention. They also want to make sure you know what steps to take if you’ve already been affected by a scam – because recovery matters just as much as prevention. “No one is immune to fraud – even the […]

Folks in central Alabama who saw David Culberson in his black-striped ref uniform would instantly recognize him. He refereed hundreds of high school football games since the 1960s. For 25 years, he was an official with the Alabama High School Athletic Association. He worked Friday night lights. Culberson, a Sylacauga native, died at his home […]

The holiday season is a busy shopping time for many of us. With rising costs and long checkout lines, the internet is an easy and convenient way to compare prices and avoid the crowd. Online shoppers, however, must exercise extreme caution when shopping online, as fraudsters are using artificial intelligence (A.I.) to create fraudulent websites, […]

Putting political differences aside, Alabama’s congressional delegation is on a mission to bring a Microreactor Power Plant to Redstone Arsenal. U.S. Rep. Dale Strong headed up the lawmakers in a letter to the Secretary of the Army today touting the qualifications of Redstone to host the plant as part of the Army’s Project Janus. “Redstone Arsenal has the […]

Governor Kay Ivey is urging Alabamians to support their hometown merchants during the holiday shopping season, officially proclaiming Saturday, November 29, 2025, as Small Business Saturday in Alabama. In her proclamation, Ivey emphasized the pivotal role small businesses play in the state’s economy, noting that Alabama “believes small businesses are the backbone of our economy […]

U.S. Senator Katie Britt is pushing bipartisan legislation aimed at improving maternal health care, saying Alabama and the nation should not accept preventable pregnancy-related deaths as a reality in 2025. Britt recently reintroduced the NIH IMPROVE Act, which would secure consistent federal funding for research on maternal care and mortality. The measure would authorize more […]

Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles Director Cam Ward will receive the 2025 Pillar of Excellence Award from the Addiction Policy Forum during a ceremony on Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol, according to the agency. The Bureau said Ward will be recognized alongside other national leaders, including U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and U.S. […]

The day after Thanksgiving marks a moment of pure Birmingham magic. Families bundle up, food trucks line 5th Avenue North, and the city gathers at the base of the Regions Center as twilight settles in. This Friday, November 28, at approximately 5:15 p.m., a switch will be flipped — and suddenly, downtown is glowing with two 30-story […]

The Alabama Crimson Tide is preparing to head into Jordan-Hare Stadium for an Iron Bowl matchup that, as always, has extremely high stakes. This time around though might mean even more than usual with Alabama’s season and playoff chances very much hanging in the balance in a place where they have struggled historically no matter […]

As families across Alabama and our nation gather for Thanksgiving, I’m reminded of the timeless words of President Abraham Lincoln: “No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who while dealing with us in anger for our sins, […]

As people around our nation gather around dinner tables with friends, family, and loved ones to celebrate Thanksgiving, I am reminded of President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation. In 1863, the United States was in the middle of the Civil War. Even when division was at an all-time high, President Lincoln called upon the nation […]

I am certain that this exact sequence will take place at countless Thanksgiving tables across Alabama today. After carving the turkey and passing the potatoes, the discussion will somehow turn to politics no matter how hard everyone tries to avoid it, and before you know it, family members from differing parties with opposing opinions will […]

You may have seen Red Deese on Food Network, on local TV news, and in the Montgomery Advertiser. Clarence Ray “Red” Deese died earlier this month, on November 10 at age 93, at home with his family. Known for many unusual aspects of his long life, he was best known for founding a unique Southern-style […]