Alabama Power News

Editorial page editor Bob Blalock is leaving the paper after working there for about 30 years to serve as editorial director in the internal communications department of Alabama Power.

The Southern Company has long been a staple in conservatively managed dividend and retirement portfolios.

Smog was the city's skyline during its industrial days. And while the city has made much progress since that time, ozone and other pollutants have cost the community jobs and lives.

Firemen remove damaged portions of a home on Eastwood Glen Place in Montgomery that was struck by lightning Monday.

The lake is slowly rising, and the water level is only about a foot below the normal summer pool level.

Traffic lights remained out Senators Drive in front of Auburn Montgomery and at Bell and Vaughn Roads and Vaughn and Ray Thorington roads as of about 1 p.m. Alabama Power crews were working to restore power after a strong storm blew through Montgomery about midday Monday.There were 2,390 customers without power, said Mike Jordan, an Alabama Power

Plans to convert the vacant former Regions Plaza building in downtown Birmingham into a luxury hotel could be revived under a proposal from the developer building the $50 million Westin Hotel next to the BJCC.

City officials discussed the Federal Emergency Management Agency floodplain on Logan Martin Lake with state officials Wednesday.

Between yesterday, and next Thursday, nine homes will be built in Birmingham. It's happening through Habitat for Humanity and Alabama Power.

When a 9-1-1 operator says this: "Mobile County 9-1-1, what's the location of your emergency?" What they expect to hear next is just that... an emergency.

Alabama s oldest renewable energy source continues to be challenged with abnormally dry conditions this spring, but lake levels have improved slightly.

An Alabama Power Company official said fishery and recreation flows are halted while only minimum flows are released from dams.

Eric Sadgenske, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, places the birds back into their man made nest in a Longleaf Pine tree after banded them.

Utilities in Alabama are using more natural gas and less coal to generate electricity as gas prices fall and clean air standards get tougher.

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity put on the job fair. Representatives from Alabama Power, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Regions and others were on hand.

Some Alabama Power customers have been scammed by individuals posing as government representatives or representatives of a bogus agency designed to help them pay their utility bills.

Alabama U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus has been cleared on allegations of insider trading by the board of the Office of Congressional Ethics.