Wal-Mart Deal Invigorates Wadley Furniture Plant
The town of Wadley, Alabama, population 700, doesn’t have a Wal-Mart, but it recently saw 50 jobs added from what...
St. Vincent’s Starts Suburban Surgery
The first surgery completed at St. Vincent’s One Nineteen outpatient center — a bone anchored hearing aid implant — was one of the first...
Couple Throws Shades on Workaday Life
It sounds like a reality show on the Travel Channel: Two Birmingham denizens, a Baker Donelson lawyer and a Pepper Place interior designer,...
Spotlight on Coastal Gateway
The five-county Coastal Gateway region, centered between Montgomery and Mobile in southwest Alabama, is rich in natural resources for both recreation and...
Little Tractor From Alabama Gets Its Shot
If all goes to plan, an Alabama company will have the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a century. ...
All You Need is Nodes: Supercomputing at Auburn
Auburn University’s new $1 million supercomputer, turned on for the first time last month, is winning accolades not only for its lightning-fast...
Blazing a New Trail
It takes a mix to create a trail. Government officials, area business leaders, statewide interest groups, tourism directors, volunteers —...
Family Businesses Anchor Coastal Tourism Recovery
Lodging tax revenue has risen more than 40 percent since the 2009-2010 downturn in Gulf Coast tourism following the recession and BP oil spill,...
USS Alabama Whistles Aboard Major General Janet Cobb
Janet Cobb drove past the USS Alabama hundreds of times before her first visit in 1995. “I escorted a friend’s grandson aboard, ” the...
Rosie’s Garage Rides for the Tribe
Like a lot of retired university professors with a Ph.D. in business logistics, Janice Bowers decided to open a motorcycle ministry and support...