Alabama Community College System (ACCS) Chancellor Jimmy Baker announced on Monday that he has appointed Gregg Bennett to serve as the interim president of Gadsden State Community College. Current president Dr. Martha Lavender announced earlier in the year that she would be retiring from the post she has held for the last six years. Bennett […]

In a span of just a few months, the coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we function as a society and has fundamentally altered our healthcare delivery system. It has exacerbated weaknesses in the infrastructure of health care and exposed limitations in current policies at a time when costs are rising and access to care […]

Earlier this year, State Rep. April Weaver (R-Brierfield) resigned her spot in the legislature to take a job in the Trump administration. That meant a special election for constituents in House District 49, which includes parts of Shelby, Chilton and Bibb Counties, and is a solidly Republican district that consists of a mix of suburban […]

University of Alabama student body president Demarcus Joiner interviewed on CNN Newsroom with Jim Sciutto about the university's return-to-campus efforts.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has allocated $10 million for a grant program to help relieve the financial pain suffered by the state’s timber owners during the coronavirus pandemic. The money comes from the $1.9 billion Alabama received as part of the federal government’s CARES Act passed in March with the goal of alleviating the economic […]

The future USS Savannah (LCS 28) was christened this past weekend at Austal USA’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama.

The media and their Democrats have apparently made the calculated decision that their chances of defeating Donald Trump are being impacted by their continued support and acquiescence to the angry mob tearing apart major American cities

It is a presidential campaign issue that no one would have seen coming a year ago, but House Democrats under the leadership of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are demanding additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service. Their reason: The USPS is not equipped to handle the potential onslaught of vote-by-mail ballots coming this […]

Alabama-based Full Moon Bar-B-Que recently announced the restaurant will be expanding into Huntsville for the first time later this year.

Jackson closes the show with a “parting shot” aimed at those who think they can keep rioting and looting without consequences from Americans who are beginning to get fed up with these actions.

Digital academic coaching company Pack Education and its partners recently announced the kickoff of Ignite Powered by Pack Education, a virtual academic advising pilot program to provide support to students at the University of South Alabama, Bishop State Community College and Coastal Alabama Community College. Pack Education, a subsidiary to digital health coaching company Pack […]

Ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft almost exited California last week over a dispute regarding their drivers’ legal status. In 2019, the California legislature passed Assembly Bill 5 (A.B. 5) making the companies’ drivers employees and not independent contractors. A judge stayed an August 20 compliance deadline. Politicians’ efforts to restrict contractors could arrest the development […]

Bronze Valley Accelerator has hired Haley Medved Kendrick as its director and has announced startups from Birmingham, Alabama and throughout the Southeast can apply for the program. Kendrick comes to Bronze Valley Accelerator with a background in economic development and building public-private partnerships in Birmingham’s technology sector, most recently as executive director of Innovate Birmingham. […]

Nick Saban knows how important football is to the greater community. He saw it growing up in his small hometown in West Virginia and he’s seen it on a higher level as the head coach at the University of Alabama. And while he appreciates what it means to fans, alumni and the community at large, […]

A national movement in protest of racial injustice is providing a timely launch of a digital platform that aims to highlight the positive work that young people across the country are doing in their communities, hoping to inspire others to do the same. “Shape the Culture” is the brainchild of 17-year-old Jordyn Hudson, a senior […]

One of downtown Birmingham’s largest vacant buildings could see new life as 192 workforce housing apartments after a $30 million renovation. The five-story, 140,000-square-foot former American Red Cross building at 2225 Third Ave. N. has been vacant since the organization moved out in 1999. The development team behind the $24 million revitalization of the American […]

A young student who is blind grins from atop a horse, feeling for the first time an entirely new rhythm. Elsewhere on the campus of Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AIDB), a child who is deaf plays a drum, nodding with the beat, lost in the sensation. Another student, an adult going through vocational […]

Former State Rep. Barry Moore, the Republican nominee in Alabama's Second Congressional District, has apologized for a Facebook post he made on Saturday.

While the likelihood of a special session before the legislature is scheduled to reconvene in February 2021 remains extremely low, chatter continues in and around state government about the possibility. Several items went unresolved from the 2020 regular session, including Alabama’s prison crisis and issues related to the pandemic, including state taxation on federal relief […]

Alabama Power Company announced three leadership changes aimed at bolstering already-strong customer experience and community support operations.

Recently, the number of daily new Coronavirus cases has declined nationwide. Several experts credit an increase in mask wearing for this recent decrease. Governor Kay Ivey implemented the statewide mask order on July 16, and Alabama has seen a sharp drop in the percentage of positive tests over the past month. The number of daily […]

U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) this week announced that he will introduce the "Diversity in Defense Act" in Congress' upper chamber.

Alabama Power has begun replacing old streetlights in Mobile as part of a joint project to increase neighborhood security and visibility. Alabama Power and the city of Mobile announced in June an agreement to replace more than 20,000 streetlights with LED fixtures. The new lights are brighter and require less maintenance than the older, high-pressure […]

Over the last five months, a program based at The University of Alabama helped thousands of small businesses in the state successfully tap into federal disaster funds to preserve jobs and stay open during the coronavirus pandemic. The Alabama Small Business Development Center led an effort to assist businesses to learn about the federal disaster […]