Seventy-five years after breaking the “color barrier” as major league baseball’s first black player, Jackie Robinson remains at least passingly familiar to most Americans. In a career that lasted from 1947 through 1956 – all with the Brooklyn Dodgers – Robinson was unquestionably great. He appeared in six All-Star games, won the National League’s Rookie […]

HB 171, the bill renewing the First-Time Homebuyer Savings Account Program, received final passage from the legislature earlier this month. With a vote of 25-0, senators moved the bill forward, sending it to the governor for her signature. Alabama Realtors thanks the bill sponsors Representative Kyle South (R-Fayette) and Senator Sam Givhan (R-Huntsville) for carrying […]

Nature’s Earth Products LLC plans to invest over $10.8 million in an expansion project that will double the manufacturing capacity of its environmentally friendly products at the company’s facility in Pickens County.

It’s an unusual relationship – between a soft-spoken, Alabama-based graphic artist and a long-dead New York photographer who once was renowned for “cheesecake” pinups of showgirls and portraits of Hollywood stars, but who has faded into almost complete obscurity. And yet, Clyde Adams can’t get photographer Murray Korman out of his head, driving Adams along a nearly-decade-long […]

MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd, a former Bush/Cheney strategist, gleefully takes to cable news to rip conservative Christians for not being Christian enough

DOTHAN, Alabama — Dothan Warehouse plans to invest $8 million to expand its facility in Houston County in the second phase of a growth project, creating 25 jobs and broadening the commercial hub’s capabilities, according to the Dothan Area Chamber of Commerce. Phase 2 of the expansion calls for Dothan Warehouse to enlarge its warehouse space by 30,000 […]

The University of South Alabama Center for Archaeological Studies is in the final phase of excavating artifacts to make way for construction of the planned Interstate 10 Mobile River Bridge. South is leading the project with help from the Alabama Department of Transportation and two cultural resource management firms to recover artifacts from archaeological sites before construction.

After five years in the heart of downtown Birmingham, Pizitz Food Hall has become a mainstay among the weekday lunch crowd, as well as weekenders enjoying a day of activity in the Magic City. The bustling building hosts an array of businesses, ranging from the state’s only Warby Parker outpost to a full bar and an independent […]

At the celebration of the purchase of the 1,644-acre Belcher Tract property adjacent to Oak Mountain State Park, the Forever Wild Land Trust Board exhibited the benefits of prudent spending. The picturesque property in Shelby County will become a part of Oak Mountain State Park to be enjoyed by the citizens of Alabama and visitors […]

A peek behind the curtain of who's who in Alabama politics in this installment of the 2022 Power & Influence 50.

Birmingham businessman Brad Tompkins has landed the endorsement of Manufacture Alabama in his Republican bid for the Alabama House of Representatives, District 15.

HB 171, the bill renewing the First-Time Homebuyer Savings Account Program, received final passage from the legislature earlier this month. With a vote of 25-0, senators moved the bill forward, sending it to the governor for her signature. Alabama Realtors thanks the bill sponsors Representative Kyle South (R-Fayette) and Senator Sam Givhan (R-Huntsville) for carrying […]

Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Katie Britt on Friday announced the launch of her campaign's veterans coalition, which consists of hundreds of former servicemembers throughout the Yellowhammer State.

The Alabama Aerospace Summer Intern Program application process has opened for high school and college students seeking to enter career fields in STEM disciplines. 

During Friday's airing of Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," network contributor Lawrence Jones spoke to Alabamians at iconic Homewood restaurant Demetri's BBQ about their concerns regarding the ongoing inflation crisis.

Former President Donald Trump has been out of office since January 2021, but the media and their Democrats can't stop obsessing over him.

Wednesday on WVNN's "The Yaffee Program," State Rep. Andrew Sorrell (R-Muscle Shoals) expressed his frustration about the failure of the legislature to pass what he called a "slam dunk" education bill.

Tuesday, on WVNN's "The Yaffee Program," Zeigler discussed how he would continue to protect Alabama's election system from voter fraud and federal overreach if elected to be Alabama's Secretary of State.

Decatur superintendent Michael Douglas recently indicated that new laws passed by the state legislature that apply to LGBTQ teachings in schools are unnecessary.

On Wednesday, U.S. Representative Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) presented a check for $474,355 in grant funds to the Central Alabama Redevelopment Alliance (CARA) at a public check presentation ceremony. The ceremony was held at the CARA headquarters in Fairfield. CARA, which is a nonprofit organization that was started at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, works […]

The race for Alabama's open fifth congressional district seat has begun to intensify as two upper tier GOP candidates grapple over the issue of Common Core standards in public education.

A peek behind the curtain of Alabama's most influential political leaders. Here are numbers 11-20 in the 2022 POWER & INFLUENCE 50.

According to a poll commissioned by the reelection campaign of Gov. Kay Ivey, Alabama's incumbent chief executive is garnering nearly 60% support among the Republican electorate in her bid for a second term.

Included in the fiscal year 2023 general fund budget, which enjoyed bipartisan legislative support and was signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey earlier this month, is an extension of postpartum Medicaid coverage.