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Updated: Oct. 22, 2021 at 5:22 PM CDT
|By Bryan Henry
Easterseals Central Alabama is doing the quiet but important work of preparing seniors to re-enter the workforce.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2021 at 6:09 PM CDT
|By Erin Davis
As unemployment numbers decline, state officials in Alabama are focused on bringing the labor participation rate up.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2021 at 5:54 AM CDT
|By Bethany Davis
October is National Financial Planning month. It’s a good time to start thinking about retirement and the money you’ll need to have saved up when you stop working and want to retire.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2021 at 10:55 PM CDT
|By Ashley Bowerman
The Alabama Retail Association says stores have most of their product in stock now, but they might not the closer we get to Christmas.
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Updated: Oct. 6, 2021 at 3:29 PM CDT
|By Jonathan Grass
Gov. Kay Ivey has announced the inaugural Made in Alabama Showcase honorees.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 5:42 AM CDT
|By Bethany Davis
Troy University’s IDEA Bank will host Entrepreneurship Week Sept. 20-24 with free, open-to-the-public programs daily.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2021 at 7:57 PM CDT
|By Brady Talbert
Restaurants like Dreamland continue to battle shortages fueled by the coronavirus.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2021 at 10:54 PM CDT
|By Courtney Chandler
Since May 2020, the Alabama Retail Association says they have seen positive sales growth each month, but the number of available employees hasn’t bounced back as quickly.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2021 at 2:16 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
Chappy’s Deli is being honored by the Alabama Retail Association and has been named one of the state’s retailers of the year.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2021 at 12:00 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
A recent study found that Montgomery area businesses are the most confident of any in Alabama.
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Updated: Jun. 10, 2021 at 3:14 PM CDT
|By Brady Talbert
The state’s sales tax for March and April is up by 41% compared to last year when the coronavirus pandemic kick-started in the U.S.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2021 at 5:59 AM CDT
|By Bethany Davis
New cars are hard to come by. It seems there’s a shortage of new cars hitting the lots, and it’s driving up the prices of used cars.
Updated: May. 18, 2021 at 5:54 PM CDT
|By Bryan Henry
The real estate boom is blowing the doors of the market and, oddly enough, it started just as a pandemic was beginning to take root a little more than a year ago.
Updated: May. 11, 2021 at 6:58 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
Auburn Mayor Ron Anders has confirmed the company is interested.
Updated: May. 10, 2021 at 9:44 PM CDT
|By Caroline Klapp
On June 19, Alabama is pulling the plug on federal boosts to unemployment, including that extra $300 a week for those collecting benefits.
Updated: May. 6, 2021 at 5:36 PM CDT
|By Bryan Henry
The HGTV hit “Home Town Takeover” is the gift that keeps on giving for Wetumpka.
Updated: May. 3, 2021 at 7:13 PM CDT
|By Katie Kamin
Auburn-based Aptar CSP Technologies has designed and is producing a special piece of technology that is used in two COVID-19 tests that recently received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2021 at 5:49 PM CDT
|By Chasity Maxie
Rental car companies across the country are facing a shortage and it seems it couldn’t have come a worse time.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2021 at 8:01 AM CDT
|By Bethany Davis
Thursday is Innovation Showcase Day in Montgomery, putting Montgomery’s tech and innovation industry in the spotlight.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2021 at 5:55 PM CDT
|By Bryan Henry
The search for workers and the challenge to retain them seems to be a never-ending dilemma for businesses in the River Region.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2021 at 3:26 PM CDT
|By Jonathan Grass
Sephora, Aldi, Buffalo’s Cafe and Trek will join The Shoppes at EastChase this year.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2021 at 9:07 PM CDT
|By Sally Pitts
Hyundai had its highest quarter one retail sales ever with an increase of 38% compared to 2020.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2021 at 6:28 AM CDT
|By Bethany Davis
As the housing market continues to boom, home buyers are making tough decisions about whether to build or buy an existing house.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2021 at 10:34 PM CDT
|By Courtney Chandler
This resort-style business was created by Annie Jones and her two daughters.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2021 at 6:03 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
Sip-n-Cycle Pedal Cruise has arrived at Montgomery's riverfront.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2021 at 9:56 AM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
Publix Super Markets and several other storefronts are gearing up to open in the town of Pike Road.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2021 at 3:59 PM CST
|By Associated Press
Buffalo Rock Co. of Birmingham said Matthew Dent is taking over as CEO.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2021 at 4:39 PM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
A new Dunkin’ restaurant is set to open later this year in midtown Montgomery.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2021 at 9:02 PM CST
|By Bryan Henry
A startup aviation company has landed on the flight line at Craig Field.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2021 at 7:15 PM CST
|By Bryan Henry
There are good signs the overall economy is beginning to turn for the better but many employers in the River Region and beyond are grappling with a major challenge.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2021 at 8:17 AM CST
|By Bethany Davis
A group of businesses and support agencies, known as IGNITE!, want to make sure all Alabama minority business owners and entrepreneurs are counted.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2021 at 7:02 PM CST
|By Jonathan Grass
In November, a $60 million settlement with Terminix International was announced.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 at 3:01 PM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
The smell of barbecue is about to return to downtown Montgomery months after a well-known eatery closed its doors amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2021 at 5:31 PM CST
|By Bryan Henry
It’s been a journey, but the historic St. James Hotel in Selma has reopened.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2021 at 9:22 AM CST
|By Associated Press
The state says Alabama’s unemployment rate fell to 3.9% in December, the lowest point since the coronavirus pandemic began ravaging the state’s economy.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2021 at 7:54 AM CST
|By Bethany Davis
A competition, geared toward black-owned businesses, is hoping to give entrepreneurs a boost.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2021 at 11:15 AM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
The city of Montgomery has launched a no-contact process for 2021 business license renewals.
Updated: Dec. 31, 2020 at 10:50 AM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
Vintage Cafe in Montgomery announced Wednesday it was closing temporarily after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2020 at 7:00 PM CST
|By Bryan Henry
International Paper leaders in Memphis, Tenn., say they are reporting the situation involving a racist note to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2020 at 6:02 PM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
A Montgomery Starbucks will be closed this week due to limited staffing.
Updated: Nov. 19, 2020 at 8:03 PM CST
|October’s revenue numbers were a mix of good and bad news for the City of Montgomery.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2020 at 3:57 PM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
The campaign comes amid talk of a nationwide lockdown because COVID-19 cases across the country continue to rise.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2020 at 3:41 PM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
In honor of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, select Montgomery restaurants will donate portions of their proceeds to help support the Friendship Mission.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 at 7:27 PM CDT
|By Bryan Henry
Kimber Manufacturing's corporate office will move to Troy sometime in 2021.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2020 at 10:45 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
Life Upside Down with Simmy is a traveling business that comes to families with kids looking to learn about tumbling and cheerleading.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 at 11:09 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Alabama’s monthly unemployment rate jumped to 6.6% in September as the coronavirus pandemic kept up its continuing damage to the state’s economy, the government reported Friday.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2020 at 10:40 AM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
Alabama Power customers will receive a bill credit this month.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2020 at 7:04 PM CDT
|By Bryan Henry
Crenshaw Community Hospital leaders hope a new campaign will lead to a “yes” vote by the people of Crenshaw County on Nov. 3.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2020 at 8:53 PM CDT
|By Lydia Nusbaum
Some Alabama farmers in South Alabama are trying to build back after the storm devastated pecan orchards, some peanut, soybean and cotton fields.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2020 at 6:20 PM CDT
|By Bryan Henry
HGTV is bringing its new “Home Town Takeover" production Wetumpka, and it’s already having an impact on the town.