Gov. Kay Ivey called on her pastor today to deliver the news that houses of worship need to remain closed for public gatherings as a matter of public safety to avoid spread of further outbreaks of the ...

Listen to “Outbreak Alabama: Stories from a Pandemic,” above. The show will release two or three episodes per week, chronicling the experiences of those directly impacted by COVID-19′s spread, ...

During the 1918 influenza pandemic in Birmingham, churches were closed. The Birmingham News offered to print sermons, service outlines, scriptures and announcements sent in by various clergy to help ...

Chicago — The CDC is recommending that gatherings of 50 people or more in US be canceled or postponed over next eight weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic. Officials across the country curtailed ...

An Alabama scientist’s research may lead to medicines that can team up with vaccines as another weapon against COVID-19, according to findings released today. The team of University of Alabama in ...

The mayor of a Tennessee county on Alabama’s northern border says COVID-19 cases are increasing there, but he won’t order residents and visitors to wear masks until “the Holy Spirit” moves him to do ...

The surge in COVID-19 cases has pushed some Alabama hospitals to the brink, and health care leaders have used the crisis as an opportunity to urge vaccination and school mask mandates. The leaders ...

Music pounding in the background, the bar manager had trouble hearing on a phone call. It was a little before 5 p.m. Wednesday and The Gentleman’s Club in Attalla was certainly open for business in ...

Listen to “Outbreak Alabama: Stories from a Pandemic,” above. Today, we hear from AL.com reporter Ramsey Archibald, who compiles daily data on COVID-19′s spread in Alabama. As of Wednesday, Alabama ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said today that dividing businesses into “essential” and “non-essential” groups in her April “Shelter in Place” order to fight COVID-19 was “a mistake.” Speaking to the ...

Officials at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have ended a COVID vaccine requirement for employees while awaiting details about a federal mandate that could affect all health care workers. Last ...

The glycerine shipment just arrived, the ABC folks just gave the go-ahead, and Jimmy Sharp, head distiller at John Emerald Distilling Company in Opelika, is about to take public pandemic protection ...