U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) on Wednesday praised China, which is by far the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter. Not only is China responsible for the most emissions by a wide margin, the country’s emissions are continuing to grow. Even under the country’s most ambitious timeline unveiled last month in a video address by Chinese President […]

Troy University announced this week that it will receive a $3.5 million grant for the federal government to study how personal protective equipment (PPE) can best be recycled. Putting the money to use will be TROY’s Center for Materials and Manufacturing Sciences. The university says America generated 100 million tons of medical waste in 2019 […]

Alabama’s own Wickles Pickles was chosen to represent the Yellowhammer State at the Trump administration’s fourth annual Made in America Showcase. The event was slated to occur this week at the White House, however the president contracting COVID-19 changed those original plans. Nevertheless, Wickles Pickles was recognized in a statement from White House press secretary […]

Around 400 cities and towns across Alabama conducted runoff elections for mayor and city council on Tuesday, including larger cities such as Selma, Decatur, Homewood, Florence and Daphne. Races on the ballot Tuesday were between the top two vote-getters during the initial August 25 municipal elections. Most of the elections were for open positions vacated […]

U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) believes that former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Donald J. Trump do not actually support Christian values. Jones in a Facebook livestream on Wednesday morning was asked by The Montgomery Advertiser to respond to a report released the day prior by The New York Times. The report, which […]

7. Municipal run-off election leads to close races and a fired poll worker The mayor of Decatur was reelected, a city councilman was obliterated in Huntsville, another city councilman lost in Madison, the mayor of  Florence appears to have lost by 11 votes and two separate city councilman kept the seats in Russellville in elections […]

Governor Kay Ivey’s recently announced prison proposal has been mildly controversial given it has been deemed a go-it-alone approach by the executive branch without any official blessing from the legislature as a body. With the legislature’s 2020 regular session cut short and the Ivey administration seemingly unwilling to call a special session anytime soon, any […]

The Alabama Retail Association’s federal political action committee this week announced endorsements in four Alabama congressional races and the state’s U.S. Senate race ahead of the November 3 general election. In the most closely watched race of Alabama’s federal races, the Retail Association is backing Republican nominee Tommy Tuberville over incumbent U.S. Senator Doug Jones […]

Congress was sent home by Speaker Pelosi last Friday without securing a deal with the White House or the Senate on the next COVID bill. While we were told we might get a 24-hours’ notice to return, our calendar doesn’t show us coming back to Washington until November 16. President Truman ran against the Republican […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday declared a State of Emergency in response to Hurricane Delta, a storm expected to make landfall in the United States between Thursday night and Friday morning. Mobile and Baldwin Counties are most at risk in Alabama; both are within the possible paths of the storm, according to projections. The […]

The new Alabama School for Cyber Technology and Engineering (ASCTE) in Huntsville is the first high school of its kind in the United States. Yellowhammer News recently got an inside look at how it is operating, and what its plans are for the future. ASCTE is currently midway through its first semester with students in […]

Alabama has blossomed into America’s third largest automotive exporter, and the electric vehicle revolution could make the Yellowhammer State No. 1 in the near future. A video released by the Energy Institute of Alabama outlines the many benefits and opportunities for the state associated with electric vehicles. Coming on the heels of National Drive Electric […]

SEC programs invest heavily in their coaches, and this Saturday, fans get to enjoy the payoff when Nick Saban takes his Crimson Tide to Oxford to take on Lane Kiffin’s Ole Miss Rebels. They are but two of the many coaches in the conference who contribute to its rich character. There is no shortage of […]

The Blue Star Families organization is partnering with AARP nationally to promote participation in a survey that will help identify and explore the issues that face service members, veterans, and their families. The survey is available now through October 16. By participating in this survey you are providing valuable insights that impact policy, educate military […]

7. Medical manufacturing facility coming to Dothan Governor Kay Ivey has announced that there will be a medical manufacturing facility built in Dothan that will create 70 new jobs and be an investment of $9.5 million through Global Resources International and Advanced Product Solutions. The facility will produce personal protective equipment, among other products. Ivey […]

Although the work is not complete in what could be a months-long process of recovery, the response is much improved from the last major storm to make landfall in Alabama, according to U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope). During an interview with Mobile radio’s FM Talk 106.5 on Monday, Byrne remarked on the efficiency of the […]

Republican U.S. senatorial nominee Tommy Tuberville is pushing back against U.S. Senator Doug Jones’ (D-AL) new assertion that he will be a champion of the Second Amendment in the Senate. As first reported by Yellowhammer News, Jones on Monday argued he is a “Second Amendment protector.” “I can have much more influence to make sure […]

Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth (R-AL) is strongly backing Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald J. Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court of the United States seat vacated by the passing of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. On Monday, Ainsworth joined fellow members of the Republican Lieutenant Governors Association (RLGA), a caucus of the Republican […]

Tommy Tuberville was trending on Twitter during the nationally-televised football game between the University of Alabama and Texas A&M. I noticed this as I watched the game at Tims Ford Lake in Tennessee, where the people at the convenience store treated me like a leper because I wore a mask while picking up a few […]

Global Resources International (GRI), a company that makes medical and industrial products, is investing $9.5 million to open a new manufacturing plant in Dothan that will employ 70 workers. GRI has long had a presence in Houston County. Eastern Technologies Inc. (ETI), a GRI subsidiary that warehouses and facilitates distribution of GRI products, is based […]

Auburn University at Montgomery’s (AUM) Department of Political Science and Public Administration on Monday released a poll showing Republican U.S. Senate nominee Tommy Tuberville leading incumbent U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) by 12 percentage points with only four weeks to go until the November 3 general election. The AUM poll was conducted between September 30 […]

There is less than a month until Alabama voters head to the polls to vote for either former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, or incumbent U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) to represent the state for the next six years. Among many things, Second Amendment issues are a […]

President Donald J. Trump has announced that he plans to depart Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and return to the White House at 5:30 p.m. CT on Monday. Trump in a tweet on Monday at 1:37 p.m. CT said he was feeling “really good” and praised the “great” Walter Reed hospital in Maryland, where […]

The U.S. Census Bureau has moved the deadline for individuals to respond to the Census; it will now occur on the last day in October. The end date for collecting Census responses has changed multiple times in 2020, with the Trump administration and federal courts going back and forth over the proper day to stop […]