Alabama Governor Kay Ivey released a letter to the heads of all state government agencies on Tuesday with guidance on how to deal with the likely eventuality of coronavirus making it to Alabama. Ivey asked each department head to make sure they have a plan to continue the offering of services should the virus be […]

President Donald Trump tossed his full-throated support behind former Auburn Football coach Tommy Tuberville's campaign in the form of a tweet

It was not long after President Donald Trump gave his endorsement to former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville that Tuberville’s opponent former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had a response. The topsy-turvy relationship between Sessions and his former boss has been well documented, from during his tenure as the country’s top law enforcement official […]

In two tweets on Tuesday night, President Donald J. Trump endorsed former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville in Alabama’s 2020 U.S. Senate race. Tuberville is facing Trump’s former attorney general, Jeff Sessions, in the Yellowhammer State’s March 31 Republican primary runoff. The GOP nominee will face U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) in November. […]

MONTGOMERY — State Rep. Steve Clouse (R-Ozark) filed a bill on Tuesday that would amend Alabama’s constitution to create a lottery. The constitutional amendment is being co-sponsored by House Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia), Majority Leader Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville), Minority Leader Anthony Daniels (D-Huntsville) and over 70 other members of the House. HB 418 would put […]

State Senator Rodger Smitherman (D-Birmingham) spoke against an effort to strengthen the penalty provision of the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017.

Congressman Bradley Byrne took to the floor of the U.S. House to speak in favor of the Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act, which he introduced...

The respective U.S. Senate campaigns of Tommy Tuberville and Jeff Sessions each released internal polling with three weeks to go until the March 31 runoff.

The Huntsville/Madison County Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) has responded to the cancellation of the 2020 Global Force Symposium & Exposition by the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) due to the ongoing public health threat of the coronavirus, reminding residents that the “Rocket City remains a welcoming destination for conferences, tradeshows, and other […]

U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) offered a bill, the Assigning Proper Placement of Executive Action Lawsuits (APPEAL) Act, to serve as an amendment to the Democrat-sponsored FUTURE Act on Tuesday. According to a press release from Palmer’s office, the FUTURE Act “undermines the President’s authority on restricting the entry of potentially dangerous foreign nationals into […]

Small business owners, including those in Alabama, continued to show high levels of optimism through February, according to the latest NFIB Optimism...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham will host the 2020 Alabama State Spelling Bee on March 21 at 12:00 p.m. The competition will be between about 55 students in grades 4-8 from every corner of the Yellowhammer State. The students competing are the cream of the crop in Alabama; over 780 schools in the state […]

Liberal activists once again have travelled from around the state -- and the nation -- to protest at the Alabama Public Service Commission.

Scientists at the Huntsville company BioDynami have developed a new product that will allow people to sequence their DNA in less time for less money. The product, which is called the NGS RNA Library Prep Kit, was developed through multitudinous experiments and has been tested on several platforms. BioDynami is located within the HudsonAlpha Institute […]

Although the COVID-19 coronavirus is dominating the news, it’s important to know the facts about the virus and the ongoing work to prevent its spread. I’d also like to dispel some misinformation regarding your government’s actions to fight it. Despite what some fearmongers have said, the federal government has been preparing for a public health […]

Bobbie Knight has been named permanent president of Miles College by the school’s board of trustees. Knight, who had served as interim president since last summer, becomes the college’s 15th president, effective immediately. The decision was announced during the spring board meeting. “I am honored that the board of trustees has confidence in me to take a […]

A new poll released this week shows former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville with a big lead heading into the runoff on March 31. The poll, which sampled 645 likely GOP primary voters from March 6-8, shows Tommy Tuberville at 52% with former Attorney General Jeff Sessions at 40%. The margin of error for the […]

There have been cases of COVID-19 reported in Tennessee, Georgia and Florida, but there are still no cases in Alabama

In a ranking published this week, Site Selection magazine placed Montgomery ninth among all Tier 2 metro areas for corporate investment in 2019. The publication defines Tier 2 metro areas as an economic area that has between 200,000 and 1,000,000 people. The methodology for the ranking was the number of projects in an area that […]

Austin Riley is one of the best race car drivers in the world, and he is the only one at his level with autism. Years ago, Austin was bullied, he felt he had no purpose, and he did not want to leave his room. Thankfully, his dad knew something different. Jason believed in his son, […]

Last week, the Alabama Senate – working across the aisle and across our Alabama communities – voted unanimously in favor of SB 172, legislation that standardizes the deployment of small cells, advanced wireless infrastructure, in Alabama. In today’s world, wireless infrastructure is a critical piece of the economic development puzzle. And, our State must take […]

Rep. Brooks was at CPAC and called into WVNN radio this morning to say he is feeling fine and disagree that Congress should go into a recess is not needed.

One of the two red pandas at an Alabama zoo has died, the zoo said Monday.

State Representative Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) announced Monday he is endorsing Jerry Carl’s campaign for Congress. Carl and former State Senator Bill Hightower (R-Mobile) are currently in a runoff for the Republican nomination for Alabama’s First Congressional District. Pringle, a former competitor in the AL-01 congressional race, placed third in the March 3 primary, garnering 19.23% […]