Federal and state agencies continue to restore the Gulf of Mexico after the largest oil spill in U.S. history 11 years ago. More than $2.4 billion in settlement funds were committed to habitat and resource restoration through 2020 and settlement payments will continue through 2031. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Deepwater Horizon federal and […]

Melanie Bridgeforth said her leadership journey has led her to the chance of a lifetime. As a newly selected Aspen Institute Ascend Fellow, she is joining hands with other change-makers across the nation who are focused on taking action to improve the lives of families and communities in the United States. Bridgeforth, president and CEO of […]

Another key figure weighed in on a new I-10 Mobile Bay and River proposal unveiled last week unanimously approved by the Mobile and Eastern Shore Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs).

Vicki Ford Jackson was recently named Shelby County Schools High School Teacher of the Year, adding that to her honor this year as Oak Mountain High School’s Teacher of the Year and her 2016-17 Oak Mountain Middle School Teacher of the Year award. But the current algebra and geometry teacher almost had her career ended before it ever began. An […]

Alabama’s state seal is the only one among 50 that touts its waterways on a map of the state. A handful of other states feature bodies of water in their artwork, but no other state showcases its river systems in its seal.

2022 was anticipated to be an exciting competitive election year. However, it is going to be a yawn of a political year. If you thought there was no competition for the constitutional offices and the House of Representatives’ seats in next year’s elections, then you have not seen anything like the lack of turnover in […]

Thanks to members of the Magic City Chapter of the APSO, many patients at Birmingham VA Medical Center will have happier holidays.

High school students from Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry and Houston Counties gathered in Ozark last week for the 2021 Power of Youth Leadership Forum, an event designed to enhance their leadership and networking skills through mentoring by local business leaders. Alabama Power Community Relations Manager David Norwood kicked off the event by telling the 150 students about […]

Among the candidates participating in the 2022 election is former Business Council of Alabama head Katie Britt. She said she was encouraged by the work of both MPOs and remained "committed" to no tolls during an interview with Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show" on Friday.

The Alabama Black Belt Adventures Association is urging hunters to donate to Hunters Helping the Hungry during the current deer season. A program coordinated by the Alabama Conservation and Natural Resources Foundation, the Hunters Helping the Hungry program began in 1999 and has donated about half a million pounds of venison to food banks across […]

Scientists are closer to solving a solar heating puzzle using direct data now that NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP), on which The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) teamed to develop an instrument suite to directly measure particles from the solar wind, has for the first time entered a region never before explored. PSP has […]

Last week’s Shop with a Cop events at three Academy Sports + Outdoors locations in Alabama got off to a somewhat tentative start, but it wasn’t because of a lack of funds or availability of products.

The Alabama Department of Labor on Friday announced that the state's unemployment rate of 3.1% remained unchanged from October to November. 

MSNBC's Joy Reid has a problem with the world's richest man Elon Musk calling U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), "Senator Karen."

This year it could be different for a piece of legislation that would put Alabama among those states to offer so-called constitutional or permitless carry. The pre-filed bill, HB6, is sponsored by State Reps. Shane Stringer (R-Satsuma) and Proncey Robertson (R-Mt. Hope), and has been endorsed by members throughout both chambers of the Alabama State […]

For a printable version, click here. Pro tip: Save the image below to your phone for quick and easy access all weekend. (Note: All times are Central) Zack Shaw is a contributing writer for Yellowhammer News and former walk-on for the Auburn Tigers. You can contact him by email: zack@yellowhammernews.com or on Twitter @z_m_shaw Hayden […]

On Friday, CNN’s Gabby Orr and Manu Raju offered their national readership a glimpse of Alabama’s U.S. Senate race. The story focused on former President Donald Trump’s role in the contest, specifically as it pertains to the two frontrunners, former Business Council of Alabama head Katie Britt and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville). The article, […]

Regions Financial Corp. on Friday announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire merger and acquisitions firm Clearsight Advisors, Inc.

The legislature's actions were praised by many among the Republican base. However, soon-to-be gubernatorial candidate Tim James suggested that the legislation did not go far enough in shielding workers from mandated vaccination.

Alabama's First Class Pre-K program has been ranked as the best quality program in the nation for 15 consecutive years.

It’s been made official that the Omicron variant is in Alabama, but the first case comes from an individual who has not reported traveling outside of the state.

Fairhope City Councilman Jack Burrell and Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, the respective chairmen for the Eastern Shore and Mobile Metropolitan Planning Organizations, presented a new framework for a long-sought new I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway.

Two Republican lawmakers are leading efforts in the Alabama Legislature to reduce the tax burden levied upon retirees and low-income earners.

The market is sensitive to a number of factors including existing home inventory, new home construction, employment and mortgage rates.