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Unemployment Pay Near $2 Billion; State Still Overwhelmed
Since the Covid-19 pandemic struck in mid-March, Alabama has paid nearly $2 billion in unemployment benefits to more than 308,000 people, and state officials...
United Bank Provides Funding for Municipal Projects
United Bank Community Development has provided lending for a new sanitation building in Atmore and a new fire truck in Satsuma.
A subsidiary of Atmore-based...
BendPak Opens Distribution Center Near Mobile Port
Automotive lift manufacturer BendPak has opened a 100,000-square-foot distribution center in Theodore, just over 10 miles from the Port of Mobile and the expanding...
Austal’s USS Oakland Completes Acceptance Trials
The future USS Oakland, the 12th Independence variant littoral combat ship built by Austal USA, has successfully completed acceptance trials in the Gulf of...
Jones Valley Teaching Farm Takes its Lessons Home
Since 2007, Jones Valley Teaching Farm has grown produce on Birmingham-area school campuses, teaching student apprentices all about the growing process — intermingled with...
PS Logistics Acquires CT Transportation, Southeast Logistics
Birmingham-based PS Holdco LLC, parent of PS Logistics, recently acquired the assets of Savannah-based CT Transportation, when the Georgia firm’s parents filed for Chapter...
Boeing Missile Contract Expanded
The Department of Defense has increased by $128.5 million the value of a Boeing Co. contract to support the nation’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD)...
Jones Says His Bill Will Give Factories New Life
Just last month, three Alabama plants announced plans to close — Goodyear in Gadsden and Honeywell and Monarch Windows and Doors, both in Anniston.
All...
USA Health Plans Free-standing ER for West Mobile
USA Health has announced plans for a new, free-standing emergency department in West Mobile, adjacent to the University of South Alabama campus.
Construction is set...
Airbus Opens Second Mobile Final Assembly Line
Airbus this week opened its second final assembly line in Mobile, dedicated to production of A220-100 and A220-300 aircraft. Construction of the 270,000-square-foot hangar...