Business
AFG Industries Inc., the Irvine-based glass maker, said Thursday it will be part of a three-company joint venture to build a new factory to manufacture photovoltaic modules, devices used to convert sunlight directly into electricity, for an Alabama utility.
Nov. 8, 1985
World & Nation
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama are voting on whether to unionize, mounting the biggest challenge to the trillion-dollar retail company since it was founded.
March 11, 2021
Power plants that use hot, compressed air to turn underground caves into energy storage tanks could solve a major problem for electric utility companies and save as much as $50 billion in future construction costs, according to industry researchers.
Sept. 26, 1991
The Supreme Court, in a ruling that limits the taxing power of the states, held Tuesday that they may not impose higher taxes on out-of-state firms to promote home-state industry.
March 27, 1985
Rocket engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne has chosen Huntsville, Ala., as its final assembly site for the new AR1 rocket engine, creating 100 new jobs in the area.
Jan. 31, 2017
Mississippi and Alabama suffer power outages and damaged homes. A toddler dies in Kentucky flooding.
April 5, 2008
Amazon workers in Bessemer, Ala., vote against unionizing. It is the closest Amazon workers anywhere in the U.S. have come to a union.
April 9, 2021
An Alabama marine construction company has agreed to pay $20 million to more than 200 guest workers from India who alleged they were kept in labor camps so squalid and crowded that one worker attempted suicide.
July 14, 2015
Autos
Jaguar’s sexy XKR makes you shake with excitement. Big deal that its chassis trembles with age.
Oct. 6, 2004
Opinion
Labor’s effort to unionize 5,800 Amazon workers in Alabama has echoes of Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for striking sanitation workers in Memphis.
March 4, 2021