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FLORENCE-Mayor Holt is pleased to announce that seven new brick and mortar businesses received their business license during July, 2019.  The business list includes a custom cabinet shop, a leading …

FLORENCE –Want to see your photos used online and in publications across the country? Want to win great prizes? Then enter the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area’s photo contest!   …

MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday announced that global automotive supplier Vuteq USA plans to invest more than $60 million to open a manufacturing facility to serve the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing …

TUPELO, MS – The Natchez Trace Parkway and the Chickasaw Inkana Foundation (CIF) will host a program to celebrate Chickasaw cultural history on Wednesday, September 4, 2019, from 4 pm …

 MONTGOMERY, AL – The Alabama Association of School Boards was recognized as one of two recipients of the National School Boards Association’s 2019 Leading Edge Award during a luncheon Saturday …

 FLORENCE – The University of North Alabama’s School of the Arts will have its conference – Ignite. Inspire. Educate. Engage, or I2E2 – on Friday, Sept. 20. The event is …

 HUNTSVILLE/DECATUR – The Alabama Career Center System is partnering with Constellium to host two job fairs this week at the Huntsville and Decatur Career Centers. The Constellium aluminum manufacturing plant …

MONTGOMERY-The names “chicken snake” or simply “rat snake” are fitting titles for one of Alabama’s more common large snakes, the gray rat snake (Pantherophis spiloides). Rat snakes are proficient predators …

FLORENCE –Donovan Rypkema, historic-preservation consultant at PlaceEconomics in Washington, D.C., will discuss the economic value of historic preservation, 6-7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 28, at Singin’ River Live, 526B E. College …

FLORENCE – A group of University of North Alabama Interior Architecture and Design students have placed third in the Design and Build program, a national collegiate design competition implemented by …

MONTGOMERY – Alabama set four new economic records in July, Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced today.  July’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is 3.3%, setting a new record low, beating last month’s …

COLBERT COUNTY-Beginning August 29, 2019, couples in Alabama will begin following a different path in the process of becoming legally married, as lawmakers approved a bill in the 2019 legislative …

FLORENCE – Three University of North Alabama graduates received the Keller Key as part of the commencement ceremony that took place Aug. 10, in Flowers Hall on the UNA campus. …

SELMA – The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) welcomed 32 new members to its family today, Aug. 15, during Trooper Class 2019-A’s graduation at the agency’s training facility in Selma. Prior …

 TUSCUMBIA-For the first time, The Girl Scouts of North – Central Alabama are going to be able to earn their ‘Alabama Music Hall of Fame’ patch on September 7th. Girl …

CULLMAN-Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04)  released the following statement in regard to the visit by the director of the United States Census Bureau, Dr. Steven Dillingham, to discuss Alabama’s plans for …

MONTGOMERY-The Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) provides several youth dove hunt opportunities throughout the state each fall. A simple hunting setup combined with a fun, family-friendly atmosphere …

FLORENCE – University of North Alabama Student Leah Buck spent her 2018-19 academic year doing cutting edge work on genetic variant interpretation on Bainbridge-Ropers syndrome, which is a neurological condition. …

FLORENCE—The Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area will begin accepting applications for grants Thursday. Application deadline is Tuesday, Oct. 1. Grant awards from $1,000 up to $7,500 are available for heritage-focused …

GUNTERSVILLE-On a sweltering day in early August 1939—eighty years ago—the Birmingham (Ala.) News reported that “over 50,000 souls” lined the banks of the newly formed Guntersville Reservoir. They had come …