This Friday at 6 p.m., join award-winning author Frye Gaillard and education and curriculum specialist Marti Rosner on Facebook Live to learn about their new illustrated book, “The Slave Who Went to Congress,” based on the inspirational true story of Benjamin Turner. “The story, written for children aged 7-12, shares the struggles and accomplishments of Benjamin Sterling Turner, who […]

Amazon welcomed new associates inside its 855,000 square-foot Bessemer fulfillment center for the first time to celebrate its “Day One” of operation.

The State of Alabama has launched an online tracker tool to enable Alabamians to keep up-to-date with the status of their unemployment claim.

The Alabama Department of Labor on Thursday released the State's official count for initial unemployment claims filed last week, April 5–11.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced Thursday the launch of two new sites for drive-thru coronavirus screening. The sites, located in Montgomery and Adamsville, are partnerships between the State of Alabama, Walmart and Quest Diagnostics. Ivey announced earlier this week that she is currently developing the plan for how the state will reopen its economy. Experts […]

This could signify the first breach in the dam, so to speak, of Alabama’s mandatory shutdown of non-essential businesses by the state government. The Male Room, a barbershop located in the Inverness neighborhood in North Shelby County, announced Tuesday night on Facebook it was reopening its business in defiance of the state order and accepting […]

7. Poarch Band of Creek Indians helping produce PPE for health care workers Muskogee Technology, a company owned by Poarch Band of Creek Indians, is producing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), which not only helps in the fight against the coronavirus but also allows them to keep their employees.  Muskogee started working with the Food and […]

When it is all said and done, and the coronavirus era is behind the state of Alabama, there will be a lot of things to review in terms of what was right and what wrong with the government response. One of the measures that have many up in arms is the determination of what was […]

The total confirmed count is now up to 20 tornadoes that caused damage April 12 in north and central Alabama. Three more confirmed tornadoes occurred in the National Weather Service (NWS) Mobile warning area (one each in Clarke, Choctaw and Wilcox counties), all rated with EF1 damage. Here are tornadoes posted on Tuesday:

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions told the Alabama Federation of Republican Women on Wednesday night that he will soon introduce a plan to halt the importation of new immigrant labor while the United States experiences its current high unemployment levels. “We don’t need to be bringing in immigrants now, in any kind of numbers, that […]

U.S. Senator Doug Jones' (D-AL) reelection campaign has filed its financial disclosure covering the first quarter of 2020, and the latest report...

The Air Force has officially selected Dannelly Field in Montgomery as one of the locations for its fifth-generation F-35A fighter planes. Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett said in a statement that Montgomery’s F-35As will be part of the U.S. Air Force’s “transition into the next generation of air superiority.” Montgomery was first announced […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a national address in which he highlighted Alabama Power Company, which will advise him on reopening the economy.

Many are eager to get Alabama’s economy up and running as soon as possible. This movement is evident from the change in the discussion, which seems to have shifted from coronavirus response to when and how to get businesses reopened. Among the efforts by state officials to make the resumption of economic activity a reality […]

It is not just the private sector that is suffering from the mandatory stay-at-home orders imposed by the state of Alabama. At its lower levels, the public sector is as well, including many municipal and county governments that have been forced to alter their schedules. However, Henry County in southeastern Alabama has found a way […]

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted normal operations for nearly every industry, and agriculture is no exception. With those disruptions, there have been concerns about the nation’s food supply, especially as some retailers struggled to catch up with the demand amid the crisis. Beef was no exception to the shortages, with many meat counters lacking their […]

Ivey has said it’s “possible” some businesses could open before the end of April, but she hasn’t given any specific dates

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians announced that Muskogee Technology is producing Personal Protective Equipment to fight against coronavirus (COVID-19).

For the leader of the state’s largest business organization, there is a clearly defined role her group can fulfill on behalf of Alabama’s small businesses suffering under the weight of the COVID-19 crisis. “It is imperative that we help these men and women get back on their feet,” Katie Boyd Britt told Yellowhammer News in […]

“In time of war, send me all the Alabamians you can get!” U.S. Army General Edward H. Plummer once exclaimed. As he continues to lead a war against the coronavirus outbreak, President Donald Trump must have had Plummer’s call in mind when he assembled his team to confront the economic fallout from the crisis. First, […]

Shelby Roberts, a registered nurse in UAB Hospital at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, recently saw a patient on her medical intensive care unit fighting to live, and struggling to do so. The patient’s family wanted to be by their loved one’s bedside, but it just was not possible. Not in these times, when a novel coronavirus […]

The federal government has approved nearly $4 billion in economic stimulus funds for Alabama small businesses, according to a Tuesday afternoon social media post from Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04). The funding is part of the federal government’s effort to provide relief to the small business sector. Included in the CARES Act, the nation’s $2.2 trillion […]

The University of Alabama System created a task force led by UAB Health System experts to develop plans for the system's three campuses to be the safest...

But everyone involved, public officials, business owners and the public, must be vigilant and smart.