Nedra Bloom
Wood Pellet Plant Under New Management
Zilkha Biomass Energy has announced plans for a plant to make its proprietary Black Pellets — an alternative to coal — in a Selma...
Royal Increase
Birmingham-based Royal Cup Inc. has announced a $30 million expansion of its facilities on 16 acres adjacent to its present operations. They expect to...
River Users Load up on Locks
Recreational river users aimed to load up the locks on the Alabama River in mid-August to demonstrate that the locks are valuable for recreation,...
Construction on New Facility to Train Workers for Airbus
Mobile-based Rod Cooke Construction Inc. has been selected by Alabama Industrial Development Training (AIDT) to build the new facility to train workers for the...
Repton Wins Landfill Suit
The tiny community of Repton in rural Conecuh County — backed by its neighbors in Atmore and Brewton, the Escambia County Commission and the...
SEC Football as Business Model: Forbes
“What happens when you take a group of rival institutions, each with their own staffs of hundreds of employees and operating on budgets in...
Freight Cars Back on Track in the Shoals
Freight car production has finally begun in earnest at a sprawling Shoals plant where production was sidetracked for nearly five years, as FreightCar America...
Cities North and South Ride Retail Rodeo
More than 1, 000 people turned out in late July to celebrate the groundbreaking for a new shopping center in Gardendale, while the Mobile...
Lawsuit Against Drummond Co. Dismissed in Federal Court
A long-running lawsuit against Birmingham-based Drummond Co. and its president over labor-related killings near its Colombian mining operations has been dismissed in federal court...
Medical Students Begin Classes at New Med School
More than 150 medical students began classes Aug. 5 at the new Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine in Dothan.
Built in conjunction with Dothan’s Southeast...