Every Republican running in an Alabama congressional or statewide race in Tuesday’s 2020 general election won. This included huge wins for President Donald J. Trump and Republican U.S. Senatorial nominee Tommy Tuberville. In Alabama’s First Congressional District, Republican nominee Jerry Carl defeated Democrat James Averhart. Former State Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) beat Democrat Phyllis Harvey-Hall […]

Former State Rep. Barry Moore received the support of over 60% of his district Tuesday night, notching a decisive win to earn a place in the U.S. House of Representatives. Once thought to have a slim chance to win the GOP primary, Moore proved Alabama political insiders wrong with an avowedly grassroots campaign in which […]

MOBILE — Mobile County Commissioner Jerry Carl has a new title: Congressman-elect. The Republican nominee in Alabama’s First Congressional District was leading 67 to 31 over Democrat James Averhart when the race was called by the New York Times at around 10:30 p.m. CT on Tuesday night. Carl declared victory shortly after learning of the […]

MONTGOMERY — The 2020 general election was held across the country on Tuesday, and Tommy Tuberville has defeated U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) in Alabama’s U.S. Senate race. Tuberville, the Republican nominee, was up double digits in all publicly released independent polls in the contest. Jones, Alabama’s incumbent junior senator, outspent the challenger by a […]

Polls close in Alabama at 7:00 p.m. Yellowhammer News will update this live election blog with results and news as they come in.

A town in one of Alabama’s poorest counties will be able to reopen their police department thanks to the support of President Donald J. Trump’s administration. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Alabama State Director Chris Beeker on Tuesday announced the administration is investing in Greene County through the Community Facilities Direct […]

A 21-year-old college senior at Auburn University was sworn in as the mayor of Camp Hill, Alabama, on Tuesday. Messiah Williams-Cole takes over as the chief executive of the small town with an estimated population of 955. In a release, Williams-Cole said he would be creating a schedule for himself to make sure he has […]

Alabama-headquartered The Sanders Trust, one of the nation’s leading healthcare real estate investment and development companies, this week announced it has completed the sale of a sizable portfolio of medical real estate. The portfolio, valued at $240 million, consists of 11 properties located across eight states: Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Georgia, Mississippi and Iowa. […]

A new charter high school focusing on aviation and aerospace is set to open in Birmingham in 2022, according to a release from the organization on Monday. The school, named the Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School (AAAHS), will be free to students interested in its mission of educating the aviation and aerospace leaders of […]

Did you know you can order free pizza to be delivered to your polling place while you’re waiting to vote today? If there’s a long line at your polling place and you’re starting to get a little hungry, there’s an organization called Pizza to the Polls that’s delivering free pizzas to voters, volunteers, journalists, and […]

MONTGOMERY — Alabama Governor Kay Ivey voted in downtown Montgomery on Tuesday morning and took questions from reporters about what is projected to be a record-breaking election. One reporter asked Ivey about the possibility of civil unrest on election night that some businesses in the state appear to be anticipating by boarding up their windows. […]

Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday morning interviewed on Talk 99.5’s “Matt & Aunie Show” minutes ahead of voting in the 2020 general election. Ivey said, “This is a huge, historic Election Day in the state of Alabama and across our nation.” “I just want to encourage everybody to go to the polls, if you haven’t […]

The fall foliage in Alabama is starting to peak this week in North Alabama and next week in central Alabama. Our state tends to get a later leaf peak, with colors at their best end of October through the first two weeks of November. With cooler temperatures and some sunny days ahead, it’s the perfect […]

7. Dr. Fauci is probably going to get fired, and no one is surprised It’s expected that President Donald Trump will fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after the election, as the two have regularly been at odds over the coronavirus pandemic. Trump has publicly criticized Fauci in the past, which is usually a sign he’s about […]

I have the honor of leading the Alabama Policy Institute, a non-partisan, non-profit educational and research institution which has championed free markets, limited government and strong families for over 30 years. When you look back at our state’s major policy discussions, you will most likely find that API was right there in the midst of […]

There has been a tangible uptick in enthusiasm for President Donald Trump in recent days that has seemingly gone unmatched by his opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, which has some comparing the phenomenon to the scenario that played out for Trump in the closing stages of the 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton. Trump won […]

Montgomery Public Schools on Monday afternoon announced it would dismiss schools early on Tuesday, November 3, “to allow time” for its employees to vote. Just after noon on Monday, the school system in Alabama’s capital city posted on Facebook that its traditional middle and high schools will dismiss school at 1:00 p.m. CT on Election Day; […]

Hurricane Zeta last week ravaged much of Alabama, causing historic damage and power outages akin to Hurricane Katrina and the April 27, 2011, tornadoes. Since early Thursday morning, Alabama Power Company, PowerSouth Energy Cooperative, other electric cooperatives and municipal electric authorities in the state have been working diligently around the clock to restore service to […]

Barry Moore is a candidate for Congress in Alabama. He has faced extreme adversity in his political and business career, but he is an overcomer. Barry felt a call by the Lord to run for Congress and he lost the first time. He is running again because he loves America and wants to serve with […]

I’ll never forget sitting in the U.S. House Chamber in January of 2017 watching the counting of the Electoral College votes from the 2016 presidential election. Under the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, the sitting vice president opens and counts the votes as submitted and certified by the electors chosen from each state, and the […]

For the third time in the last few months, the Air Force Global Strike Command has tested a Boeing-built Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The Minuteman III, which is managed by Boeing in Huntsville, is as fast as a seismic wave, traveling up to four miles per second and up to 15,000 miles per […]

On Tuesday, America will vote in what we have been told is “the most important election of our lifetimes,” so we all better hope for a good outcome! This, of course, has been repeated for every presidential election I have ever voted in from 2000 on, and a month from now we will be told […]

The 2020 general election to be held on Tuesday, November 3, is set to feature highly contested races across the nation, including in Alabama. The Yellowhammer State’s most anticipated contest is the U.S. Senate matchup between incumbent Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) and Republican nominee Tommy Tuberville. All publicly released independent polling in the race has shown […]

Auburn earned its fourth win of the season by blowing out the LSU Tigers. The game got off to a bit of a slow start as neither offense was able to get much going in the first quarter. However, the Auburn defense set the tone for the rest of the contest in the second quarter […]