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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled today the state must create a second black majority congressional district. The decision affirms a lower-court ruling that found a likely violation of the […]

WASHINGTON — The commanding general of the U.S. Space Command was to the point in a meeting Alabama congressional delegation. ““General Dickinson just confirmed to us that the headquarters of […]

Legislation supports Saturn 1B at I-65 exit

MONTGOMERY — The fate of the deteriorating Saturn 1B rocket at the Ardmore exit of Interstate 65 is in the hands of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. […]

Rockets aiming to win Armed Forces softball game

HUNTSVILLE – Statistics, wins and headlines tell the history of the annual Armed Forces Celebration softball game between the North Alabama Rockets and Team Redstone. As far back as 2017, […]

Strong 'concerned' about rolling blackouts

WASHINGTON — Last December, North Alabama was left shivering during a cold snap when the Tennessee Valley Authority instituted “rolling blackouts.” The first-ever procedure by the utility left thousands of […]

Momentus, Axient collaborate on space services

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Huntsville-based company has joined a California firm to collaborate on technologies and capabilities for aerospace customers Axient of Huntsville and Momentus of San Jose announced […]

WASHINGTON — While the move of Space Command to Redstone Arsenal is becoming a political football, there is no such problem with the FBI’s game plan for Huntsville. In fact, […]

Governor, grants show some 'Love' to Good Hope

MONTGOMERY — A pair of grants totaling $500,000 will help create nearly three dozen jobs in Good Hope, Gov. Kay Ivey announced this week. A $250,000 grant from the Appalachian […]

'Historic' state budgets are signed

MONTGOMERY – Calling the Education Trust Fund a “historic investment,” Gov. Kay Ivey signed the state’s budgets Thursday, including the General Fund and the supplemental and the Education Trust Fund […]

Legislature passes grocery tax cut

MONTGOMERY — State lawmakers reached a final agreement Thursday on how to cut the grocery tax.  As prices have risen across the board, Alabama’s 4% sales tax on food has […]

OT income tax cut gets bipartisan boost

MONTGOMERY — As tax cuts continue to carry the thunder of the legislative session’s final days, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle made a timely push to become the […]

Sentar wins Health IT Innovation awards

HUNTSVILLE – Huntsville cybersecurity specialist Sentar has been selected by FORUM – formerly known as FedHealthIT – as a FORUM Health IT Award recipient in collaboration with the Naval Information […]

NE Alabama agencies receive ADECA grants

MONTGOMERY – Several northeast Alabama law enforcement agencies have received much-needed funding, thanks to grants from the U.S. Department of Justice through the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. […]

Battle: Trust in Space Command process broken

HUNTSVILLE — Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle threw his support Thursday behind a congressional investigation of the Space Command relocation decision. House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers announced Thursday the […]

MADISON — A gun store planning to open near three schools in Madison resulted in more than 25 residents packing Monday night’s City Council meeting. The heated debate led to […]

UNA alum wins State Department IT fellowship

FLORENCE – A North Alabama alumnus is taking his degree and talents to the U.S. government. Following a highly competitive application process, Brandon Sanders, who graduated in 2019 with his […]

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin – with its partners Lockheed Martin, Draper, Boeing, Astrobotic Technology and Honeybee Robotics – has been selected to build the second human lunar landing system, NASA […]

BIRMINGHAM — Innovate Alabama is opening applications June 1 for the third round of the Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program. Recipients of Phase I and Phase II Federal Small Business […]

Beam me up! New City Hall 'topped off'

HUNTSVILLE — The city of Huntsville ceremoniously lifted its last and highest beam into place for the new City Hall downtown. Mayor Tommy Battle; Huntsville City Council; Brandon Tucker, project […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With Chinese ownership of U.S. land increasing more than 2,200% from 2010 to 2020, lawmakers are pushing legislation to stem the purchases by adversarial governments. And the […]

Northrop Grumman delivers IBCS to Poland

HUNTSVILLE — Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered key Integrated Battle Command System components for Poland’s medium-range air defense program. The recent delivery of the IBCS Integrated Fire Control Network relays […]

MADISON — The voters of Madison overwhelmingly showed they are satisfied with their city government. In unofficial results from today’s referendum, there were 5,559 votes (74.9%) to remain a mayor-council […]

MADISON — Voters will head to the polls Tuesday in Madison to cast their vote in a referendum on changing from a mayor-council form of government to a council-manager form […]

Lomax bill would ban Chinese-made drones

HUNTSVILLE — With Redstone Arsenal in his House district, State Rep. James Lomax has a special interest in keeping Chinese-made drones out of the state. Lomax (R-Huntsville) has introduced House […]