David Lane has a secret. Make that secrets. Plural. Like the name, logo and team colors of the New Orleans Pelicans‘ new G League franchise coming to Birmingham for the 2021-22 season. You can ask for the details, but the general manager won’t tell. Patience, young grasshoppers. Wait. Is that it? Grasshoppers? Starting a franchise from scratch isn’t […]

Residents in central Alabama will now have easier access to key health care services thanks to Driving HOPE (Health, Outreach, Prevention and Education), a new mobile cancer screening and education unit that Montgomery Cancer Center is putting into place.

Angelo Bautista always wanted to become a pilot, even as a little boy growing up in the Philippines, but he studied nursing at the University of South Alabama. “It was my dad’s idea,” he said. “He said you’re going to need a bachelor’s degree anyway, so why not get something as a backup?” Bautista graduated in 2009 […]

GUNTERSVILLE — Thus far, and it won’t be easy to top, Lieutenant Gov. Will Ainsworth has had the biggest campaign rollout of the early stages of the 2022 election cycle. Campaign organizers told Yellowhammer News upward of 3,000 people attended the re-election kickoff event on Friday at the Jeff Cook Performing Arts Stage at the […]

Two Auburn University research projects have been awarded a share of $100,000 from the LAUNCH Fund for Research and Innovation, a university program designed to bridge the gap between innovative research and the marketplace. The winners were selected from among five faculty teams that competed in a recent multistage competition. A team of veterinary and public health researchers […]

To help make ends meet for her family during the pandemic, Melissa Humble started selling French macaroons and other goodies she baked at her home in Headland, Alabama. She branded her business HumbleBee Bakes and was regularly selling out of sweets. Then the cottage industry (a term for home-based food businesses) hit a regulatory roadblock, a state […]

Nick Saban relishes a return to normal. The coach of the Crimson Tide football team is glad players are coming back to camp, back on campus doing normal workouts. Thursday, Saban was off campus but back on familiar grounds as he welcomed participants in the 15th Nick’s Kids Golf Tournament. The annual fundraiser returned to normal operations after […]

ROANOKE, Alabama — Mohawk Industries plans to introduce yarn production at its Roanoke manufacturing facility, creating 130 jobs in the Randolph County community and expanding the company’s investment in the region. “Our yarn facilities are very important, as they start our carpet manufacturing process,” Todd Shail, Mohawk’s senior vice president of manufacturing, said in an […]

Thanks to a tagging program started by CCA Alabama in 2017, Alabama anglers who target speckled trout and redfish know a great deal more about the movement and growth of these prized inshore species. The TAG Alabama program, which is compiled and analyzed by the University of South Alabama (USA) School of Marine Sciences and […]

Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth (R-AL) on Friday evening officially launched his reelection campaign at a packed kickoff event featuring special guests, family, friends and supporters at Guntersville Civitan Park’s Jeff Cook Performing Arts Stage. Guests included Governor Kay Ivey (R-AL), Senate Majority Leader Clay Scofield (R-Guntersville) and country music star Riley Green, who performed at […]

A day after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, the University of Alabama System made immediate plans to transition to online or alternative instruction and remote work at all three campuses. Gov. Kay Ivey declared a state of emergency, and UAB Hospital prepared patient surge plans and implemented visitor restrictions. At the […]

VERNON, Alabama — Trachte Building Systems, an industry-leading manufacturer of steel self-storage systems, announced plans to expand its Roof Mart facility in Northwest Alabama with a project that will create 70 jobs in Vernon over the next three years. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin-based Trachte (pronounced Trock-tee) plans to invest over $11.5 million in building improvements and new […]

I’ve seen plenty of disturbing things happen during the time I’ve spent in and around politics and the legal system. Few are as disturbing or heartbreaking as the rampant scourge of guardianship and conservatorship abuse. It’s not a red state or a blue state problem. Nor is it unique to any one region of the country. From coast to coast, […]

7. The media was wrong about an unnamed source on Trump again As usual, a reporter claimed an unnamed source said that former President Donald Trump was telling unnamed people that he believed he was going to be reinstated in August. This set off a flurry of speculation and fears for the health of our […]

In what is one of the more bizarre political stories of 2021, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville), a candidate for Alabama’s U.S. Senate up in 2022, is the legal target of his colleague U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who claims in a lawsuit that Brooks was responsible for the January 6 incident on Capitol Hill […]

Late last month, the people of Alabama were repulsed to learn that former pastor and serial rapist, Mack Charles Andrews, Jr., was released from prison after serving only half of his 15-year sentence. What most Alabamians might not know is that Andrews was not released by mistake, not through error or misapplication of law, not […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Thursday officially announced he will seek reelection to a second term in 2022. Marshall was first appointed attorney general in 2017 before resoundingly winning a first full term in 2018. He previously served as district attorney of Marshall County and is a lifelong prosecutor known to be tough on […]

I have found that the most traumatic experiences we endure generally must see the light of day, or we are bound by them and to them one way or another. This principle applies to families, but also to cultures. Healthy relationships cannot happen without healthy communication. As individuals and groups of people, we should be […]

A day after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, the University of Alabama System made immediate plans to transition to online or alternative instruction and remote work at all three campuses. Gov. Kay Ivey declared a state of emergency, and UAB Hospital prepared patient surge plans and implemented visitor restrictions. At the […]

7. Mobile County dealing with cyberattack Mobile County Commissioner Connie Hudson has acknowledged that “certain systems” have been impacted by a cyberattack in the form of malware. The attack occurred last week and shut down operations for about three days. Sharee Broussard, a spokeswoman for the county, said that they’re working to “restore those systems” and […]

AIDT, Alabama’s official state workforce development agency, on Thursday morning announced the selection of its virtual reality training program as the 2021 Workforce Program of the Year award by the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals, the association that represents more than 3,000 state and local workforce leaders in all 50 states. The prestigious distinction […]

America is at a crossroads, and Alabama is under the gun. Since Joe Biden was sworn into office in January, we’ve seen Washington, D.C. kick common sense to the curb and return to putting America last. Across our country, Democrats and much of the media look down on states like ours and openly attack our […]

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Mazda Toyota Manufacturing (MTM) today announced the first vehicle in the production lineup at its Alabama manufacturing plant – the all-new Corolla Cross – following on the heels of a Toyota announcement this morning. The joint venture partnership between Mazda Motor Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. is in a hiring boom to prepare for […]

All too often we watch as Americans of different political stripes approach issues from a starting point that we can’t even recognize what the other person is seeing. Nowhere is this more prevalent than the conversation surrounding interactions with police officers and citizens engaged in an interaction that leads to the citizen resisting the police […]