NASA and its international partners — including the many in Alabama — this month marked a new milestone in human spaceflight. It has now been 20 consecutive years since the last time all humans were on the planet Earth at the same time. Indeed, November 1, 2000, was the most recent day humans dwelled only […]

Auburn University head men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl spoke remotely to the media on Wednesday ahead of the team’s first game of the season. The Tigers are scheduled to face Saint Joseph’s at 3:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving in the Fort Myers Tip-Off event. However, the opening contest has been overshadowed this week by Sunday’s announcement […]

Play a round of 18 with the family over Thanksgiving weekend — but we’re not talking about golf. Selwood Farm is a family-owned hunting preserve in Alpine, Alabama that holds bragging rights for opening the state’s first sporting clay course in 1990. Thanksgiving weekend is a busy one for Selwood Farm (they’re closed on Thanksgiving […]

University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban is set to miss Saturday’s Iron Bowl after testing positive for COVID-19. Team physician Dr. Jimmy Robinson and UA Associate Athletics Director for Sports Medicine Jeff Allen made the announcement on Wednesday in a joint statement. Saban experienced a false positive earlier in the season, but this […]

U.S. Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Wednesday announced that he has selected Stephen Boyd to serve as his chief of staff. Boyd is a veteran of Capitol Hill with deep Alabama connections, currently serving as United States assistant attorney general. Born in Birmingham, Boyd would go on to graduate from the University of Alabama with a […]

Alabama State Parks, a division of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, this week announced that one of the state’s unique holiday traditions has returned this year at Rickwood Caverns State Park. The park’s centerpiece cave system will once again be home to “Wonderland Under Warrior,” a magical experience in which the cave is […]

Sweet Grown Alabama, the state’s agricultural branding program, this week added the Poarch Band of Creek Indians (PCI) as a founding member of the non-profit organization. The program represents over 170 farmer, restaurant, market and business members across the state who play a role in bringing local products to Yellowhammer State consumers. “I am excited […]

7. No more tickets for panhandling In Montgomery, the police department will no longer be arresting or ticketing people for panhandling, which comes after a lawsuit settlement that involved the City, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Per the settlement, there will no longer be arrests or tickets […]

Thirty years ago, this week, the longest serving British prime minister of the 20th-century resigned. Margaret Thatcher, having governed since 1979, saw her leadership challenged, but rather than continue to fight, she was gaslighted into believing she was losing her grip on her party and would lose her office in an embarrassing vote. None of […]

The College Football Playoff Selection Committee on Tuesday evening released its first rankings of the 2020 season, with the University of Alabama Crimson Tide coming out on top. Bama was followed by Notre Dame, Clemson and Ohio State to round out the top four teams. Texas A&M, Florida and Cincinnati were ranked Nos. 5-7, respectively. […]

Due to “positive COVID tests and subsequent contact tracing” within the Southern Miss football program, UAB’s upcoming game against the Golden Eagles has been canceled. The game was set for Friday, November 27, at Birmingham’s historic Legion Field. This was supposed to be UAB’s last game ever at the venue, as the team will transition […]

Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) on Tuesday introduced new legislation to further the advancement of affordable, high-speed rural broadband internet access. Aderholt’s bill, entitled the Enabling Extra Time to Extend Network Deployment (EXTEND) Act, would permit states to use federal CARES Act monies under the Coronavirus Relief Fund for grants for the deployment of broadband infrastructure […]

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s office held a press conference on Tuesday where they displayed the results of a massive drug bust that was brought about by a months-long investigation. Hundreds of pounds of marijuana, meth, heroin and psychedelic mushrooms were found during the execution of four search warrants. Renaldo Henderson, 43, is in custody with […]

Governor Kay Ivey (R-AL) on Tuesday issued a directive to all state agencies ordering that flags in certain locations be lowered to half-staff. The directive covers flags “on the grounds of the Alabama State Capitol Complex in Montgomery and in Alabama House District 78.” This is being done “to honor the memory and longstanding service” […]

Even though the No. 1 University of Alabama Crimson Tide (7-0) come into this weekend’s matchup as heavy favorites on paper, Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn is noting that the Iron Bowl is always a different kind of game — and one that is difficult to predict. Malzahn’s Tigers come into the annual post-Thanksgiving matchup […]

Yellowhammer News on Tuesday spoke with State Senator Clay Scofield (R-Guntersville), who was selected by his Republican colleagues the previous day to be the next majority leader in the legislature’s upper chamber. This vote by the Senate GOP Caucus came after Pro Tem Del Marsh (R-Anniston) in the same meeting announced he would step down from […]

For the third year in a row, Alabama has set a new record for the number of foster care adoptions in the state. Governor Kay Ivey announced Tuesday that 814 foster kids in Alabama were adopted over fiscal year 2020, up from 731 in FY 2019. “I am so proud that Alabama has set yet […]

Census workers in Alabama were told to lie about the occupancy of certain houses when they could not find a way to interview the occupants or neighbors during the frenzied last month of the 2020 count, according to a report published on Monday by The Associated Press. Text messages between a Census worker and a Census […]

Yellowhammer News on Tuesday spoke with Alabama Senate Majority Leader Greg Reed (R-Jasper), who was unanimously chosen by his Republican colleagues the previous day to be the next president pro tempore of the legislature’s upper chamber. Reed’s nomination by the Senate GOP Caucus came after Pro Tem Del Marsh (R-Anniston) in the same meeting announced […]

One of the names being mentioned to fill the U.S. Attorney General’s role in a potential Biden administration has been U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook), who lost his reelection bid earlier this month to former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville. During an appearance on MSNBC on Monday, Jones declined to address that possibility. […]

It has now been three weeks since Americans voted in the presidential election, and still, questions remain about its outcome. Joe Biden is moving forward with the transition despite no official concession to have come from incumbent President Donald Trump, who is vowing to fight on. During an appearance on Mobile’s FM Talk 106.5 on […]

7. Del Marsh stepping down Alabama State Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh (R-Anniston) will be stepping down from his leadership position, which was announced while the Senate Republican Caucus met. It was decided that Senate Majority Leader Greg Reed (R-Jasper) will take over as pro tem and State Sen. Clay Scofield (R-Guntersville) will be […]

Backed by a national labor union and Democratic socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a notice has been filed informing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that there is an attempt underway to unionize Amazon’s state-of-the-art fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama. This facility outside of Birmingham just opened earlier this year, employing more than 1,500 full-time […]

The City of Birmingham on Monday afternoon released a video with some rather specific recommendations of what people not do this Thanksgiving. Mayor Randall Woodfin opens the video by noting the message is intended “especially for our Birmingham city employees.” The video, shared with the hashtag “#DontDoThat,” subsequently transitions to an on-screen narrator commenting on […]