Ready for a camping trip to one – or several – of the beautiful Alabama State Parks? Ensuring you’ll have a site for your RV, travel trailer or tent just became much easier when the new online campground reservation system (www.reservealapark.com) went live. When ADCNR Commissioner Chris Blankenship was appointed by Governor Kay Ivey in […]

Former Alabama House Speaker Michael G. “Mike” Hubbard (R-Auburn) reported to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office on Friday afternoon to begin serving what is currently a four-year prison sentence. Hubbard in 2016 was convicted on 12 of 23 ethics charges brought against him by the Alabama Attorney General’s Office. One of those 12 convictions was […]

Austal USA on Friday announced that it has completed the purchase of waterfront land, buildings and an existing dry dock along the Mobile River. The purchased property and facilities were previously owned by World Marine of Alabama, an indirect subsidiary of Modern American Recycling and Repair Services of Alabama (M.A.R.R.S.). In a release, Austal said […]

TUSCALOOSA — The University of Alabama System on Friday afternoon released its weekly update with COVID-19 related data from each of its three distinct institutions: the University of Alabama, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). The data — covering the seven-day period from Friday, September 4, through […]

For a college football coach preparing to play a division rival the second week of September in 2001, the terrorist attacks on that Tuesday left a lasting impact just like they did for every other American. “Life changed forever as of that day,” recalled Tommy Tuberville in a conversation with Yellowhammer News. In his third […]

Nineteen years ago, America awoke on a tranquil Tuesday morning only to have that peace destroyed by terrorists. We pause today to remember the nearly 3,000 Americans who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001. We rise to honor the brave first responders who ran into harm’s way. We mourn with the thousands of Americans […]

Alabama’s coronavirus numbers were largely stable over the last week, as observers brace to see if the holiday weekend had an impact on the state’s virus statistics. Friday, September 11, comes only four days after the conclusion of the Labor Day holiday weekend, which many experts warned could cause increased transmission of the virus. Due […]

TUSCALOOSA — Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, visited the University of Alabama on Friday for discussions with students, faculty and staff, as well as administrators and officials from the University of Alabama System and UA. Birx heard from members of the campus and local community about the university’s return-to-campus efforts. The […]

No American will ever forget where they were and what they were doing on the morning of September 11, 2001. The world changed in an instant before our own eyes, and it is hard to believe these tragic events took place nearly 20 years ago. Like many, I remember watching the horror unfold on television. […]

Dr. Andy Jackson, a 4th-grade teacher in the Pell City School System who was named Teacher of the Year on Thursday, will spend the next year on a fresh set of wheels courtesy of ALFA Insurance. The company gifted Jackson with a new Chevrolet Traverse for use during the year he holds the title of […]

For the last few years, State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) has been a vocal proponent of the state of Alabama no longer being in the business of retail alcohol sales. Orr, chairman of the Alabama Senate’s General Fund Budget committee, argued the reasoning behind the state extricating itself from the retail alcohol business goes beyond […]

Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) Director Kenneth Boswell on Friday morning provided an update on the state of Alabama’s Census response. Boswell told Yellowhammer News that parts of the state’s Census response were going “really well,” but he continued to ask members of the public to urge their friends and family to […]

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) on Thursday awarded Southern Company the 92nd annual EEI Edison Award, which is widely considered the national electric utility industry’s most prestigious honor. Southern Company, the parent company of Alabama Power Company, received the award for its portfolio of energy storage research and development (R&D) initiatives. The award in large part […]

7. NRA report cards are in Former Auburn football coach and GOP U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Tuberville has been endorsed by the National Rifle Association (NRA). Tuberville received the highest rating of “AQ,” which the NRA says is “A pro-gun candidate whose rating is based solely on the candidate’s responses to the NRA-PVF Candidate Questionnaire […]

Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys this week announced the “Alexander Shunnarah Teacher of the Month” campaign will expand statewide this year. The initiative successfully began last year highlighting educators in the Birmingham metropolitan area. The nominations for the 2020-2021 school year opened on Wednesday and will continue until May. Alexander Shunnarah plans to honor two or […]

Quarterback is the most important position in team sports. To do the job well, the quarterback must know his assignment, make sure his 10 teammates on the field are lined up correctly, be aware of each offensive player’s task and have a good idea of what the defensive scheme is, too. Once all of that […]

Governor Kay Ivey on Thursday announced that $300 million of Alabama’s CARES Act money will now go towards funding Alabama’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, a move she says will stop the taxes on employers that normally fund the unemployment system from skyrocketing. “[W]e acted on this so as to not create a burden for our […]

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Blazers are set to play at Miami (FL) on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. CT. The football game will be UAB’s second of the season and the opener for the Hurricanes. The Blazers beat Central Arkansas by a score of 45-35 last week, which was the first week of […]

What started as a pet project transformed into a bustling, nationally renowned family business for the McCrarys. Natasha McCrary launched 1818 Farms in 2011, and it wasn’t long before the farm was named America’s “Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year” by Amazon in 2019. Nestled outside of Huntsville — in the historic village of Mooresville […]

Biologists have recently discovered a new Indiana bat hibernaculum (a shelter occupied by hibernating bats) in Alabama, bringing the known number of active Indiana bat caves in the state to four. The location is the southernmost known hibernaculum for the species across its range that extends north to Canada. “The Indiana bat is exceedingly rare […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced that she has apportioned $72.34 million in funds to help institutions of higher learning across the state upgrade their remote learning offerings. The money for Thursday’s grants comes from the $1.9 billion Alabama received from the federal government’s CARES Act passed in March to help stabilize the country amid the […]

For the second time this year, U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) has voted to block consideration of a major coronavirus relief bill. Jones on Thursday joined all of his fellow Senate Democrats in voting against invoking cloture on a targeted stimulus package that would have funded a $300 per person weekly federal supplemental to unemployment […]

CAMP HILL — Southern Preparatory Academy, formerly Lyman Ward Military Academy, conducted a military parade in honor of America’s first responders and in remembrance of 9/11 on Thursday. Alabama House Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia), an Army veteran and former policeman, was the guest of honor. McCutcheon said that after America was attacked on 9/11, “the […]

The United States House Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday released a staff report advising that Alabama could lose a total of $39.7 million per year in federal funding if there is just a 1% undercount in the state’s 2020 Census response. The report specified that of that total, a 1% undercount would mean that more […]