Alabama businesses of all sizes will have the opportunity to connect and learn from industry experts on a wide array of topics from economic development to marketing your business in a post-COVID world. The Business Council of Alabama is excited to present Engage Alabama: A Virtual Business Summit on August 26-27, 2020. The two-day virtual […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden has officially named U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) has his running mate for the 2020 Presidential Election

Earlier this month, Jill Biden, wife of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, began taking a more public role in her husband’s bid for the White House, participating in media interviews and campaign events. However, Joe Biden has not been out and about as much as the former second lady, which has raised questions about […]

Joe Biden selected U.S. Senator Kamala Harris to be his 2020 running mate. Political leaders from both sides of the aisle in Alabama reacted to the news.

Alabama Senate Majority Leader Greg Reed sent a letter to SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, advocating for the conference to allow its member institutions...

A Montgomery County Circuit judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to challenge the legality of Alabama’s statewide mask mandate. The suit was brought by three Jackson County residents who thought the mask order, first ordered by Governor Kay Ivey in mid-July, was outside the bounds of what the government could put in place. […]

Birmingham-based Coca-Cola Bottling Company UNITED has held the 2020 edition of its annual "Pay It Forward" program, which aims to provide black college...

Birmingham-based HPM was ranked number 22 on ENR’s Top 50 Program Management Firms, a list of the top U.S. construction management firms. The ranking is based on agency fees for multi-project construction programs. HPM took the largest jump in the rankings of any firm during the last 12 months. “This significant jump in ENR’s rankings […]

NASA has awarded its Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for sustained performance that embodies multiple contributions on NASA projects, programs or initiatives to Dr. Michael S. Briggs, an assistant director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Dr. Briggs, who is a senior principal research […]

U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) once again faces criticism over his positions on immigration issues.

On August 18, the U.S. will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to our Constitution which guaranteed women’s right to vote. The women’s suffrage movement in our country began in the 1840s as women abolitionists saw the parallels between the effort to free enslaved Americans and their own desire to […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday awarded a total of $7 million to aid mental healthcare programs that serve the state. The money will be split across two programs, with $6 million going to community health provider agencies and $1 million for the Alabama Department of Mental Health’s (ADMH) Crisis and Recovery Services program. The […]

U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) is set to be a featured speaker at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

University of Alabama junior Mac Jones and Auburn University sophomore Bo Nix came out in support of the #WeWantToPlay movement to save the college...

With the threat of COVID-19 still present, many have questioned if the turnout for the November 3 election could suffer due to the fear of potentially contracting the coronavirus. However, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is expecting the opposite. During an interview with Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5’s “The Jeff Poor Show,” Merrill said […]

7. Baldwin County Schools react to petitions calling for punishment At Daphne High School, a group of cheerleaders took a picture together with a T-shirt that said “I Love Redneck Boys” on July 4, and a fellow student started a petition that gained 10,000 signatures calling for the school to take disciplinary action. Baldwin County […]

Count former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville as a supporter of the player-led #WeWantToPlay movement to save the 2020 college football season.

Emphasizing its agenda of “climate justice,” the California-based environmental group Sierra Club announced its endorsement of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Monday. In a release touting its intent to elect what it termed “climate champions up and down the ticket,” Sierra Club’s executive director Michael Brune outlined the desire of his group to […]

The commission views this as a non-starter, Strong believes attempting to “negotiate” breaking the law is a violation of his oath of office, instead, he “filed an application of waiver with the committee based on a law that was written in 2017.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday announced two recent Alabama arrests by its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division.

University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban on Monday afternoon weighed in on the #WeWantToPlay movement to save the 2020 college football season.

Business Facilities magazine has ranked Birmingham and Huntsville as two of the most business-friendly cities in the United States. Birmingham was ranked as the number one most business-friendly mid-sized city, and Huntsville took the number one ranking for small cities. The same magazine ranked Alabama as the fourth-most business-friendly state in the nation, behind Texas, […]

President Trump tweeted his support for the #WeWantToPlay movement, of which University of Alabama star running back Najee Harris is a prominent leader.

University of Alabama running back Najee Harris is a leader in #WeWantToPlay movement to save the 2020 college football season.