Alabama Power partnered with utilities across the nation through Utilities United Against Scams (UUAS) to recognize the fifth annual Utility Scam Awareness Day on Wednesday, Nov. 18. Utility Scam Awareness Day is part of International Scam Awareness Week, an advocacy and awareness campaign focused on educating customers and exposing tactics used by scammers. “Alabama Power is joining […]

The University of South Alabama will lead on a pilot program funded with a $710,000 grant from Columbia World Projects to address wastewater treatment in the rural Black Belt of Alabama. The project aims to demonstrate that better wastewater treatment systems can yield health, economic and environmental benefits for rural communities in the United States […]

We see it in the movies all the time: the computer whiz furiously typing at his keyboard to bypass the security system or open the un-openable door for the hero. For real computer whizzes, such as Dustin Fast, computer programming is not that dramatic, but Fast can do things on a computer keyboard that are […]

Four hundred years ago this month, a group of just over 100 people arrived off the shores of Cape Cod after a two-month sail from England. They were dissenters from the Church of England like the Puritans but went further by formally separating from the established church they considered to be corrupt beyond repair. We […]

A Lee County circuit judge issued a ruling that reduced former Alabama House Speaker Michael G. "Mike" Hubbard's prison sentence.

Last week, state and local officials in the Mobile and Baldwin County areas had reportedly resumed discussions about a new I-10 Mobile Bay Bridge. A now-infamous proposal came to a halt last year after the Eastern Shore Metropolitan Planning Organization voted to remove the bridge from the organization’s Transportation Improvement Program, which resulted in Gov. […]

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 basketball coach Bruce Pearl spoke remotely to the media on Wednesday ahead of the team's first game of the season.

Instead of shopping in crowded malls this Black Friday, take the family to Selwood Farm to shoot clays, hunt quail, and enjoy the outdoors.

University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban is set to miss Saturday's Iron Bowl after testing positive for COVID-19.

U.S. Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) announced that he has hired Stephen Boyd to serve as his chief of staff.

Alabama State Parks announced that one of the state’s unique holiday traditions has returned this year at Rickwood Caverns State Park.

Sweet Grown Alabama, the state’s agricultural branding program, this week added the Poarch Band of Creek Indians as a founding member.

In Alabama, the number of people that went to their polling place or voted Absentee who voted straight-ticket made up 67% of ballots counted in the 2020 election

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 released its first rankings of the season, with the Alabama Crimson Tide coming out on top.

Due to "positive COVID tests and subsequent contact tracing" within the Southern Miss football program, UAB's game against the...

Congressman Robert Aderholt introduced new legislation to further the advancement of affordable, high-speed rural broadband internet access.

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 issued a directive to all state agencies ordering that flags in certain locations be lowered to half-staff.

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 spoke with Senator Clay Scofield, who was selected by his Republican colleagues as the next majority leader...

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 […]