Florida-based Via Airlines has announced that it will not resume seasonal operations at Montgomery Regional Airport. Via announced that it will discontinue much of its commercial service across the country and return to the airline’s charter business model. Montgomery began offering Via flights to Orlando Sanford International Airport in May 2018. Passenger travel increased and demand continues for regional service from…
The nation’s largest Protestant denomination is reporting its twelfth year of declining memberships. The Southern Baptist Convention has reported total membership for 2018 at 14.8 million, down about 192,000 from the previous year. Baptisms also declined by about 7,600 to 246,442. Scott McConnell is director of the SBC’s Lifeway Research, which reported the data. He says baptisms have declined in…
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is pleased to share its 2019-2022 Strategic Plan, which will serve as an actionable roadmap to reverse long-standing challenges and to transform corrections in Alabama. The plan outlines concentrated efforts over the next three years in four strategic focus areas: staffing, infrastructure, programming and culture. “We recognize the magnitude and scope of the challenges…
A strong upper ridge continues to build in across the Southeast preventing much in the way of shower and storm development across the state today and right on through the upcoming weekend. We will once again see a mainly sunny sky today, with some cumulus clouds floating across Alabama. Rain chances remain very low, but we cannot completely rule out…
The lottery bill stalled on the floor Tuesday after not receiving enough procedural votes for a debate. We now have confirmation that the bill is dead. Representative Steve Clouse sponsored the bill, and carried it through the House. He said at the end of the day, he thinks it came down to Greene and Macon County. Those two counties have…
May is faith based initiative month for the Department of Veteran Affairs. On Wednesday, the Montgomery V.A. Office hosted its first Veterans’ Resource Fair and Town Hall at True Divine Baptist Church. “We try to educate our veterans on how to file on the proper forms and basically how to use and train them on that system that we have…
A $236,339 grant awarded by Gov. Kay Ivey will improve the state’s ability to take dangerous drivers off the road and make Alabama highways safer. The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences will use the grant to upgrade alcohol-testing devices to a system that checks for alcohol content on two levels, reducing the chance that results can be legally refuted. Funds…
Alabama historical officials say researchers have located the wreck of the last ship known to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States. A statement issued Wednesday by the Alabama Historical Commission says remains of the Gulf schooner Clotilda have been identified and verified after months of assessment. The commission’s executive director, Lisa Demetropoulos Jones, calls the discovery “an…
Today, TechMGM, the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce’s (MACC) initiative to connect and leverage Montgomery’s unique technology assets, announced a partnership with the Air Force Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate Program Executive Office to host a new Air Force software development project that will offer private sector collaboration called BESPIN. Signifying a shift in the way the Air Force approaches software…
The Alabama Senate on Tuesday approved, by a 30-0 vote, the General Fund budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, which starts October 1st. The FY20 General Fund – the budget for all non-education state spending – sets aside an additional $7 million for the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) to hire 50 new state troopers, increases the Department of Corrections’…
