Once a year, and especially in presidential election cycle years, politicians flock to Selma to mark the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. However, Selma faces struggles, including high crime and high unemployment. Thursday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson pointed to Selma as a place where Democratic leadership has failed […]

Last night at the Democratic National Convention, former Vice President Joe Biden formally accepted the Democratic nomination in the 2020 Presidential Election

A pretty reliable predictor of success for a college football team is a combination of talent and experience. Really, any organization, business or team would love to have “talented and experienced” be an accurate description of their personnel. The linebacker room that the Auburn coaching staff has put together in 2020 fits that profile. Linebackers’ […]

"As of this morning, we've tested approximately 75,000 individuals around the state, and I believe our prevalence rate is about 0.75% positive."

ESPN analyst Todd McShay is proposing a mini-season for draft-eligible college football players, and he wants it to be played in Mobile. McShay’s proposal is in response to what he sees as a lack of opportunity for players facing canceled college football seasons, as well as his opinion that a spring football season is unreasonable. […]

One of the hot-button issues thus far in the presidential election cycle has been the U.S. Postal Service and how it might be used to implement a so-called vote-by-mail system. However, Dr. Alec Yasinsac, dean of the University of South Alabama’s School of Computing, who has studied vote-by-mail voting systems, argues you cannot guarantee the […]

The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association awarded two of its prestigious President’s Awards to the Alabama State Port Authority’s...

As Alabama High School Athletic Association schools open fall sports, 124 sporting events are set to be live-streamed over the NFHS Network...

The Trump administration released this week a summary of the support it has given to the state of Alabama amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, including millions of masks and thousands of doses of remdesivir. The newly collected data prompted praise from U.S. Reps. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) and Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville). In the document, the Trump […]

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin interviewed on the "Rickey Smiley Morning Show," touching on substantive topics in what was largely a lighthearted segment.

Two Bassmaster tournaments have been moved to lakes in Alabama after organizers in upstate New York could not find a way to make the originally scheduled events happen. The most recent announcement is that the Bassmaster Eastern Open will now occur December 3-5, 2020, at Lay Lake with takeoffs and weigh-ins held at Beeswax Park […]

Doug Jones: "the voices on the left of the Democratic Party, voices who need to be heard, voices that are important out there for all of us going forward...

Alabama made meaningful progress in every important coronavirus tracking number over the past week, even as the virus remains widespread and highly active across the state. The state averaged 855 new coronavirus cases every day for the last week, down from 1,156 for the week ending August 13, a 26% decrease. Over the same timespan, […]

Jones said that he doesn’t think the state “is as deep-red as everybody says,” using the special election in 2017 when Jones was elected to support that claim.

Chloe Cook knew as early as February that something might be up. As executive director of Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema and a member of the national organization the Art House Convergence, she was hearing whispers about what theater operators were seeing in other parts of the world as COVID-19 began to spread. “I was here watching people in […]

What started as an idea between friends at a church in Montgomery County has turned into a viral movement uplifting thousands across the United States.

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin was one of 17 "rising stars" who jointly delivered the 2020 Democratic National Convention's keynote address.

A massive new development is being proposed for downtown Birmingham that would encompass 1.2 million square feet and cost around a quarter of a billion dollars. The project, which is being called The Block, would have a centerpiece 48-story high rise development called the Dansby Tower. If the development comes to fruition, the tower would […]

So the President of the United States has now forced an American company to show their support for the police and make it clear that there is not a speech code in their workplace that places one form of political expression over another.

Bonnie Plants broke ground Wednesday on a new corporate headquarters in Opelika. The company also entered into a formal partnership with Auburn University that will include two new scholarships funded by the gardening business. Bonnie had been based in Union Springs, a small town in Bullock County, since the company’s founding in 1918. The firm […]

California is facing another week of rolling blackouts across its state, an energy crisis Alabama leaders point to as a lesson on the importance of making good decisions on energy policy. A summer heatwave has put pressure on California’s electrical grid at a time when it is attempting to transition to generating power exclusively through […]

The billboard king, Birmingham-based attorney Alexander Shunnarah, for the first time ever is inviting the public to design a new look for his empire of...

Auburn University announced Wednesday that to begin the football season, only 20% of Jordan-Hare Stadium’s capacity will be filled when the Tigers take the field in September. In additional moves meant to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, the school banned tailgating to begin the season and reiterated that masks will be required for every […]

“What a stupid question.” That was the callous response that Doug Jones gave when asked if he would support a federal law banning abortion after five...