The Auburn Tigers held the lead for most of the game but couldn’t hold onto the lead as Ole Miss ultimately landed the 86-84 victory on Devontae Shuler’s game winning shot on Saturday. Auburn managed to hold the lead for most of the game, including all of the second half until the final minute of […]

Bass Pro Shops is celebrating its 50th year, and amateur anglers and the waters where they practice their craft will net the rewards. Founder Johnny Morris today announced what he called the grandest fishing tournament in history – the Johnny Morris Bass Pro Shops U.S. Open National Bass Fishing Amateur Team Championships. The tourney will have more than […]

Last month, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) was appointed to the House Agriculture and Veterans’ Affairs committees, which compliments his second congressional district’s military and agriculture presence. Moore, a freshman lawmaker just over one month into his first term, noted how the assignments lined up with his military service and agricultural science studies at Auburn […]

The Alabama Crimson Tide’s basketball team came into their matchup on Saturday ranked 10th nationally and undefeated in the SEC. Meanwhile, the Missouri Tigers came into the game ranked 18th, and are the closest team behind Alabama in the conference race. Alabama head coach Nate Oats mentioned before the game, “We have got to get […]

Last month during a budget hearing before the Alabama Legislature began the 2021 regular session, State Reps. Rich Wingo (R-Tuscaloosa) and Arnold Mooney (R-Indian Springs) called on Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn to reveal more details about Gov. Kay Ivey’s plan to lease three new mega-prison facilities. At the time, just days before […]

Jesse J. Lewis Sr. has lived almost a century of history and, along the way, made some of his own. Born Jan. 3, 1925, Lewis last month celebrated his 96th birthday. He grew up in the Great Depression, dropped out of high school, served under Gen. George Patton in World War II, suffered through the racial […]

Last week, SB 97, legislation brought by State Sen. Tom Whatley (R-Auburn), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that would limit the power of the state health officer and add a check on the executive branch under a state of emergency, advanced through the Judiciary Committee by a 7-4 vote. Complaints surfaced during the […]

Alabama Power’s parent company has been named to Fortune magazine’s list of the “World’s Most Admired Companies.” The 2021 list ranks Southern Company among the top four electric and gas utilities worldwide, up two spots from last year. “On behalf of the thousands of people making thousands of good decisions every day at Southern Company, we are pleased […]

Judging from the number of deer reported through the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division’s Game Check system and the number of trophy bucks posted on social media, Chris Cook thinks this is the best deer season our state has had in quite a while. Cook, the WFF’s Deer Program Coordinator, said numerous factors […]

Alabama’s coronavirus vaccination process is set to enter a complicated new phase in the coming days as hundreds of thousands of people who received their first dose return to get their second, and an additional 750,000 citizens become eligible to get their first. On Monday, February 8, the state’s expansion of eligibility to all citizens […]

The NCAA has announced that its Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee (MOIC), in conjunction with the NCAA office of inclusion, is recognizing Auburn University Director of Athletics Allen Greene and four other individuals as “Champions of Diversity and Inclusion for their work in supporting ethnic minorities and other underrepresented groups and individuals.” According to a release, […]

MONTGOMERY — Talk 99.5’s “Matt & Val Show” broadcast live from inside the Alabama State Capitol on Thursday morning, interviewing Governor Kay Ivey, members of her cabinet and prominent state legislators. The interview came ahead of the third day of the legislature’s 2021 regular session and two days after Ivey’s annual State of the State […]

U.S. Senators Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) early Friday morning joined their Republican colleagues in voting against Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, the Fiscal Year 2021 budget reconciliation package. The Senate vote split evenly on party lines, 50-50, however, Vice President Kamala Harris broke the tie to adopt the resolution. The budget reconciliation package […]

Buc-ee’s in Leeds is now open, which means it’s time to make a visit to this Texas-sized travel center. Originally opened in Lake Jackson, Texas in 1982, Buc-ee’s has since expanded to include locations throughout Texas, Georgia, and two in Alabama (the other is in Robertsdale). In addition to being a convenient roadside stop due […]

The Alabama Workforce Council released its annual report on Friday. The document showed that the coronavirus pandemic threw a wrench into the state’s workforce development machinery, but progress is still being made. Hanging over all of Alabama’s workforce development efforts is Governor Kay Ivey’s stated goal of adding 500,000 credentialed workers to the state’s pool […]

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin this week filed his 2020 year-end finance report, showing $1,003,783 raised so far with $1,000,756 cash on hand for his upcoming campaign. Woodfin officially announced his reelection bid last week and already has a big cash advantage. In fact, the recent donations to Woodfin are records for any Birmingham municipal race […]

Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) on Friday announced his reappointment to the influential House Armed Services Committee (HASC) for the 117th Congress, which runs through January 3, 2023. At the subcommittee level, Brooks has been reappointed to Strategic Forces and appointed to Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems. The North Alabama congressman has served on HASC […]

7. Joe Biden is just “not Trump” President Joe Biden continues to wake up and think, “What would Trump do?” and then do the exact opposite. On Thursday, he announced that he will raise the cap on refugees we allow to enter the country in the middle of a global pandemic. Biden is not offering […]

Earlier this week, State Rep. Chip Brown (R-Hollinger’s Island) introduced legislation that would withhold state tax abatements or credits and economic incentives from companies that engage in censorship. Brown’s HB 213 Anti-Censorship Act has 10 other co-sponsors. The language of the bill explicitly states censorship would pertain to anything outside of incitement to violence. Tech […]

While some Republican voters have lamented the outcome of the 2020 election, given the circumstances they felt were questionable, U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) says those voters are about to get a wake-up call as the Biden administration enacts its policies. During an appearance on Mobile radio’s FM Talk 106.5, Palmer predicted job losses would […]

The state’s economy could grow by 2.6% in 2021, a good clip that will not pull the state out of the hole created in 2020 by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report published yesterday by economists at The University of Alabama. “It will be a couple of years before we get back to pre-pandemic level economic […]

Alabama’s number of new coronavirus cases and patients requiring hospitalization continued to drop sharply in the last week. Alabama’s seven-day average of new cases dropped to a rate not experienced since the Thanksgiving holiday, an event believed by experts to have kicked off the massive winter spike in numbers. Over the past week, an average […]

Attorney General Steve Marshall announced Thursday that Alabama will be receiving $9,229,421 from being part of a 47-state coalition that went after the McKinsey & Company consulting firm for its role in the opioid crisis. In total, the settlement paid by McKinsey was $573 million. Marshall’s office says it is the first multistate opioid settlement […]

MONTGOMERY — The Alabama House of Representatives on Thursday passed two bills that are top priorities for state leaders. The House passed one bill that exempts from state taxes the $1,200 and $600 coronavirus relief payments most Alabamians received from the federal government in the last year. The chamber also passed a bill extending two […]