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FLORENCE – University of North Alabama sophomore Lauren Vance, of Muscle Shoals, has been crowned Miss UNA 2023 at the Miss UNA program, “The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” Saturday …

Retirement might be the end of your career, but it doesn’t have to be the end of financial security or life satisfaction. Retirement generally coincides with the age at which …

Regardless of where you find them — be it on a beach, along a riverbank, or in a garden — most shells share a common feature: 90% of them coil …

MONTGOMERY-The Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) has designated Saturday, February 4, 2023, as the second of the 2022-2023 hunting …

MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey announced today that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted December unemployment rate is 2.8%, up slightly from November’s rate of 2.7%, and well below December 2021’s rate of …

FLORENCE – Although official figures are weeks away from being finalized, the Spring 2023 term at the University of North Alabama is already breaking enrollment records with a greater than …

ATHENS – An Athens metal manufacturing company plans to expand in 2023.    Morgan Metals Inc. President Patrick Townsend says this expansion is to serve the growing number of industries …

KNOXVILLE, TN ― The Tennessee Valley Authority, in partnership with Bicentennial Volunteers Inc., a TVA retiree organization, is awarding $1 million in grants to educators in public schools to develop …

MUSCLE SHOALS – The Northwest-Shoals Community College (NW-SCC) Alabama Career Essentials (ACE) Program will host the first student information session of 2023 on Tuesday, January 31, on the Shoals campus …

MONTGOMERY – Alabama Department of Senior Services Commissioner Jean Brown announced today that the State Combined Charitable Campaign (SCC) exceeded its 2022 goal by 102.5%. Gov. Kay Ivey appointed Brown to …

ATHENS – Do you love all things chocolate? Do you love great places to shop and dine? If so, you will not want to miss Athens Main Street’s popular Chocolate …

No two planets are the same — even when it comes to their sunsets. As the sun dips below the horizon on Earth, the sky blossoms into warm hues of …

MyElearningWorld released a new report showing that the average college student in 2023 has to work about 4x as many hours on minimum wage as a student 30 years ago to access the …

MONTGOMERY – Over the course of 2022, Troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Highway Patrol Division investigated crashes that resulted in 19 fewer lives lost on Alabama’s roadways. …

SHEFFIELD-The 5th Annual Northwest Alabama Farm Toy Show will be held at the Clarion Inn Hotel in Sheffield on Friday, February 10 from 5:00PM until 8:30Pm and Saturday, February 11 …

In the early days of the internet, settling on the perfect username sometimes required finding the right niche email service — like the first G-mail, which gave cat lovers the …

ATLANTA, GA-December 2022 marked two years since the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered in the U.S. Although too many lives have been lost to COVID-19 since the start of the …

MONTGOMERY-For most of the state, Alabama deer hunters are in the midst of the peak hunting period when deer start moving with increased rutting activity. Chris Cook, Deer Program Coordinator …

LORETTO, TN – The City of Loretto today announced that Loretto Telecom, a Skybest Company, was recently named a Smart Rural CommunitySM (SRC) provider by NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association. SRC …

MONTGOMERY-Vaccines are safe and effective in protecting children against a variety of potentially dangerous infectious diseases. The Alabama Chapter-American Academy of Pediatrics (AL-AAP) and the Alabama Department of Public Health …