Economy

Alabama sued TikTok in 2025, claiming the platform negatively impacts youth mental health. The settlement includes enhance parental controls and content moderation.

The Carver Jones Market will hold a grand opening Saturday. It's been 4 years since the Titusville area has had a full-service grocery store.

Nebius's data-center development in the Oxmoor Valley neighborhood has generated a lot of questions. We put some of them to company spokesperson Leah Davis.

Birmingham is the number one metro area for young professionals when looking at hiring rates for college graduates in their 20s, affordability, and wages, according to a recent report.

While lack of transportation is a major employment barrier in Alabama, few people take public transit to work. That dynamic is even more pronounced in rural areas.

A sign welcoming drivers to Tallassee, Alabama, calls the town a “Treasure on the Tallapoosa.” Members of a coalition of community, advocacy and labor organizations that held a press conference there recently would say they’re trying to keep it that way.

More than 50 people on supervised release from Alabama’s prison system sat in folding chairs inside the Montgomery Day Reporting Center earlier this year. Speakers briefly addressed them, telling what to expect from the resource and job fair they were about to visit.

At Yo’ Mama’s restaurant in downtown Birmingham, Rosie and Jeffrey make their co-workers’ lives easier.

Sitting in a cubicle inside the Birmingham Career Center, employment security representative Chancellor Maryland asked Margaret Jenkins to confirm her most recent employers: Walmart, Dollar Tree, Jack’s, Bojangles and Arby’s.“The reason why it’s so much is, many times, I’ve been working two jobs at one time, trying to get myself back up, while I could,” Jenkins said.She said she came to the center, one of 56 across Alabama run by the state’s Workforce Department, because she wants to transition to a different type of work.“I’m 48, and I want a new career, training and education all at the same time.”

Pop-up banners and tables strewn with logo-covered materials lined the walls of a large room during a late-summer hiring event at Lawson State Community College in Bessemer. Employers and trade-union representatives stood ready to recruit job seekers.