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MONTGOMERY-Alabama’s sandhill crane season returns for 2022-2023 with 400 permit holders having the opportunity to hunt sandhill cranes in north Alabama. Registration for the limited quota permits opens on September …

TUPELO – National Park Service (NPS) rangers cited a man caught in the act of spray painting the TN 96 bridge on Natchez Trace Parkway. The 20-year-old man from Nashville, …

HUNTSVILLE – A federal judge today sentenced a Huntsville man with committing a string of armed robberies, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie …

 DECATUR-After a one-year break due to Covid-19 in 2020 and sluggish ticket sales in 2021, the annual Riverfest festival underwent a transformation and is returning in 2022 as Sizzle and …

FLORENCE-The Shoals Symphony Orchestra (SSO) at the University of North Alabama (UNA) invites you to join them in celebrating the 40th Anniversary season. Looking back over the years, so many …

MONTGOMERY — Governor Kay Ivey on Monday awarded a $20,365 grant to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to provide new bulletproof vests for its agents. Alabama law enforcement officers, like those …

  MONTGOMERY-The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has provided additional details regarding safe sleep in its recently published policy statement, “Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Updated 2022 Recommendations for Reducing Infant Deaths …

ATHENS – Main Street Alabama celebrated local program successes at the ninth annual Awards of Excellence August 18, at the Auburn Marriott Opelika Resort Hotel & Spa at Grand National …

It’s often said that “there’s probably a German word” for unusual situations that are difficult to express in English, but sometimes there’s actually a Japanese word instead. Tsundoku, for example, describes the …

MONTGOMERY-Alabama State Parks is excited about the three zip line adventure courses; The Screaming Eagle Aerial Zipline at Lake Guntersville State Park, the Zipline Canopy Tour at Wind Creek State Park and …

FLORENCE – Students entering the Bachelor of Science in Nursing pre-licensure track in the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions at the University of North Alabama received some additional …

MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey on Friday announced that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted July unemployment rate remained unchanged from June’s rate of 2.6%, well below July 2021’s rate of 3.4%. July’s rate …

TUPELO, MS – Through funding from the Great American Outdoors Act’s (GAOA) Legacy Restoration Fund and Federal Highway Administration’s National Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects (NSFLTP) Program, the National …

DECATUR-A greased pig, frogs and a parade take centerstage when the town of Eva comes together next month for the town’s annual Frontier Days festival. Set for September 17-24, 2022, …

MONTGOMERY-Alabama’s abundant freshwater fish took center stage recently at the Alabama Wildlife Federation (AWF) Wild Game Cook-Off State Finals at AWF’s Lanark Pavilion in Millbrook. Two of the top three …

In the 1950s, Americans were looking for ways to spend less time in the kitchen. Generations of home cooks, the overwhelming majority of them women, had made food preparation the …

FLORENCE-Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts is pleased to present a memorial exhibition and sale of works by one of the South’s most recognized artists, Jean Ellen Schulman that begins August …

MONTGOMERY-The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) is following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new COVID-19 recommendations for schools and updated quarantine and isolation guidance for adults. …

Woolly mammoths seem old-school. Hunted by Neanderthals for tens of thousands of years, these elephant-like mammals, some with tusks up to 15 feet long, evolved hair and layers of fat to …

UPATE:  The man that died  in the traffic crash on US 72/Hastings Road was identified as Andrue Josiff Olson, 25, of Athens.  ATHENS-Officers from the Athens Police Department responded to …