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Festival in Alabama Reaches Farihope
Joining a tradition that includes Birmingham’s celebrated Sidewalk Film Festival and that once included Dothan’s home-town tribute to cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown, the...
Stratolaunch Wants to Leapfrog the Launch Pad
While workers in Decatur and Huntsville continually move forward with newer and more powerful versions of the rockets that propelled the American dream into...
Fodor’s Touts Birmingham
Fodor’s, one of the premier guides for travelers, recommends Birmingham as among the top 14 destinations in the world this fall, one of only...
Port at Mobile is a Kew Factor in World Commerce
What do planes, trains and automobiles have in common? They all rely on the port at Mobile to help them move what needs to...
Weyerhaeuser Restarts South Alabama Mill
Four years after closing its engineered lumber plant at Evergreen, Weyerhaeuser has announced plans to restart production of Trus Joist TJI joists and Microllam...
Alabama Aerospace Benchmarks
NASA — looking beyond the moon
Aiming beyond the moon, NASA continues to awaken the world’s imagination, not just with dreams of places out of...
Energen Sells Alabama Coalbed Methane Play
Birmingham-based Energen Corp. pioneered coalbed methane production in the Black Warrior Basin nearly 30 years ago, but this summer it announced the sale of...
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Sponsors Senior Bowl
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups has signed on as the new corporate sponsor for the Senior Bowl, played each January in Mobile. The game pits...
Courtland Mill, Largest in State, Shut Down by International Paper
International Paper announced plans in mid-September to close its Courtland mill, laying off about 1, 100 workers in Lawrence County. The mill is slated...
Drummond Back to Work in Colombia
Drummond Co.’s coal mining operations in Colombia have chugged back to life after a seven-week strike. The South American nation’s government intervened to halt the...