Alabama Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield will attend the ceremonial signing of the Phase 1 trade deal between the United States and China at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. President Donald Trump will sign an 86-page agreement with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He that includes a commitment by China that it will make […]

This past holiday season St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham bought $8.1 million in medical debt owed by about 6,500 families across Central Alabama and then forgave it all. Because many hospitals sell off the debt they are not sure they can collect, St. Lukes was able to purchase the $8.1 million in debt for […]

Montgomery-based Life On Wheels, a Christian non-profit organization, is expanding its Image Clear Ultrasound (ICU Mobile) services to Birmingham, free of charge. ICU Mobile is a licensed, mobile, medical clinic that offers free pregnancy testing and ultrasounds for women who are not under the care of a physician. The service itself was founded in Akron, […]

Balch & Bingham on Tuesday announced the continued growth of its public policy and government relations practice with the impressive addition of Stephen W. “Steve” Still as a partner who will be located in the Alabama firm’s Washington, D.C. and Birmingham offices. Still, who earned his J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law, comes […]

Earlier this month, State Sen. Clyde Chambliss (R-Prattville) raised a few eyebrows when he said the legislature would take a look at eliminating the state’s sales tax on groceries in the upcoming session. Alabama, along with Mississippi and South Dakota, are the only states to levy the full sales tax on groceries as it does […]

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is now in the middle of a process where she is deciding whether or not she should open Alabama up to more refugees or if she should follow the lead of Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) who decided he would not take more refugees. President Donald Trump put this decision in the […]

Renowned economist and writer Stephen Moore, widely viewed as the architect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, told Yellowhammer News on Monday that President Donald J. Trump would likely not have become president without the support of then-U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) in 2016. Sessions is currently running in a crowded GOP […]

A study conducted by researchers at Auburn University found evidence that African-Americans who reported more than average racial discrimination showed increased symptoms of aging over a 10-year time frame. The study was led by Dr. David H. Chae, an associate professor at the university. It centers its evidence on the length of telomeres — which […]

It all started when 26 football players at Alabama’s Reeltown High School were voluntarily baptized at the school’s Nix-Webster-O’Neal Stadium in November. The following month, Reeltown, located in Notasulga, and head football coach Matt Johnson came under attack from the out-of-state Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF). The FFRF is self-described as the nation’s largest association of […]

Tuesday during an appearance on Talk 99.5’s “Matt & Aunie Show,” former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, warned about the consequences of the hyper-politicization of every nuance of day-to-day living. Tuberville told co-hosts Matt Murphy and Andrea Lindenberg that Democrats’ unwillingness to put election politics behind them […]

Civil rights legend and American icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent two-days in a jail cell at the Jefferson County Courthouse in 1967, and the cell in which he was held is now being turned into a historical exhibit. As first reported by the Birmingham Times, the Jefferson County Commission has unanimously passed a […]

Alabama Secretary of Labor Fitzgerald Washington has announced that the department’s Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Program has opened the third round of applications for $10 million in grant funding available for AML-related economic development projects. Applications will be accepted through 4:00 p.m. CST on April 6, 2020. Eligible economic development projects must be located on […]

7. Biden leading in the polls A new Iowa poll conducted by Monmouth University shows that former Vice President Joe Biden is still polling in first at 24%, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is at 18% and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg is at 17%. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is in fourth […]

Huntsville-made Boeing batteries will be installed during the second and third all-women spacewalks in history on Wednesday, January 15, and Monday, January 20, respectively. The spacewalks will both air live online via NASA-TV. Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch will leave the International Space Station (ISS) to finish replacing nickel-hydrogen batteries with lithium-ion batteries that were […]

You may not have known his name, but the most dangerous man in the Middle East has finally received justice for a lifetime of brutality. Before being taken out by an American airstrike, Iranian General Qasem Soleimani was a major general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and commander of its extra-military, clandestine Quds Force. […]

What is the greatest issue we are facing as a society, and how do we deal with it? Scott Dawson, founder of the SDEA, shares his thoughts on this and much more in this episode. He also shares information about the upcoming Strength to Stand event he will be hosting with Kanye West this week […]

LSU beat Clemson 42-25 in Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship game in New Orleans. The Bayou Bengals now have four national championships in school history. LSU also finished the 1958, 2003 and 2007 seasons as the nation’s No. 1 team. LSU’s second national championship, of course, was won by their then-head coach Nick Saban. […]

President Donald J. Trump famously received a raucous standing ovation when he attended the University of Alabama Crimson Tide’s game against LSU in Tuscaloosa’s Bryant-Denny Stadium this past college football season. The president on Monday evening again attended a marquee matchup featuring LSU, this time facing Clemson in the College Football Playoff National Championship. Just […]

Progress has been made in Huntsville’s long and complicated quest to desegregate its school system. Fifty-seven years ago, the City of Huntsville’s school system was put under federal oversight to try and eliminate/prevent segregationist policies affecting the city’s schoolchildren. In 2015 the U.S. Department of Justice and Huntsville agreed to a consent decree that created […]

State Senator Donnie Chesteen (R-Geneva) has pre-filed a bill for the 2020 legislative session that would allow Alabamians in the armed forces who are serving outside the state the ability to claim an income tax deduction on their Alabama state tax bill. According to Chesteen’s legislation, out of state service members are currently unable to […]

The Alabama Department of Conservation announced Monday that interested parties can begin submitting project proposals they wish to be funded through Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) monies. GOMESA is a law that dates to George W. Bush’s presidency in 2006. The law allowed big increases in the amount of oil and gas drilling […]

The I-20/59 bridges through downtown Birmingham will reopen for drivers by January 21, the Alabama Department of Transportation announced Monday in a press release. Governor Kay Ivey will attend a Dedication Ceremony for the bridges on Friday, January 17. There is a possibility the bridges will open the next day, January 18, but the only […]

A new study published in recent days by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research found that the Alabama Technology Network (ATN) provides a sizable net positive economic impact to the Yellowhammer State. ATN, an entity of the Alabama Community College System (ACCS), serves as Alabama’s center for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), which […]

Golf Advisor recently honored a trio of Alabama courses in its annual list of the best golf courses in the United States. The publication, which is associated with the Golf Channel, explained, “[We] received more than 153,000 golf course ratings and reviews from our golfer community in 2019, and we’ve compiled the very best courses in […]