Steve Wiggins

THE SHOALS – Northwest Alabama Regional Airport Director, Barry Griffith announced today that the popular introductory airfares to Nashville’s BNA Regional airport will remain discounted through the end of this …

FLORENCE – Every Spring, since 1987, the City of Florence hosts the Arts Alive Festival. And every Spring, a new original-art poster is created by a local artist. So, today …

THE SHOALS – Earth Month runs all throughout April. The celebration got a big kick-off at Wilson Part on April 4th, and The quad-Cities Daily was on hand to capture …

BATON ROUGE –  Percy Sledge died this morning at about one o’clock. He was surrounded by family. A native of Leighton, Sledge in 1966 recorded the seminal love song of …

ATHENS – It was a big day of the first Saturday of April at the Athens Sports Complex. The city was holding its annual opening celebration for Spring and Summer …

UPDATE – A recovery team from Georgia recovered the downed Hughes 500 chopper from the Tennessee River about 1:00pm today. The aircraft wreckage was put on a flatbed and is …

CHEROKEE – The rescue operations at Colbert Landing Park on the south shore of the Tennessee River this morning  got off to a slow start. It was expected that search and recovery efforts …

FLORENCE – Judge James Hall passed away last night in the hospital as he was undergoing treatment for a stomach aneurysm. Initial sources have told the Quad-Cities daily that Hall was …

  CHEROKEE – At a status briefing near the search area for a downed helicopter late this afternoon, it was announced that the National Transportation Safety Board was sending a ‘go-team’ …

FLORENCE – Just under 17 months ago a Florence man, Eric Watkins was found dead in his car near Chisholm Road. He was shot multiple times as he was sitting in …

FLORENCE – So, sure the weather wasn’t in the mood to cooperate. We get that. But we also get that lots of Shoals people were so ready for Springtime to …

FLORENCE – The Salvation Army’s Annual Empty Bowl Luncheon was a big hit with participants and sponsors alike. The event always draws a big crowd and Wednesday’s eventwas  a huge …

FLORENCE – “When the new building is finished in a year, we want to make sure that no historically important artifacts are covered up by the structure,” says Hunter Johnson, …

FLORENCE – Community Development Senior Consultant, Millie Callaway announced at a media conference this morning that the City of Florence is now a designated, Valley Sustainable Gold Community. This prestigious award was …

MONROEVILLE – Harper Lee won the Pulitzer for her 1960 novel… “To Kill A Mockingbird” was the seminal treatise of Southern exposition. A thesis on truthfulness, community standing, guilt, the …

FLORENCE – The Shoals Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting celebration this week at Imagine That . It’s a new bakery, cafe’ and caterer on Court Street. Dana and Shawn …

THE SHOALS – From all accounts, Northwest Shoals Regional Airport is headed for a successful conclusion in its search for a reliable air carrier from our community to a major …

FLORENCE – Selling hard, Governor Robert Bentley made his case for a $700-million tax increase to the Shoals Chamber of Commerce. “It is time to put an end to the special …

FLORENCE – This afternoon,the Florence Police Department released the identity of the person killed in the pre-dawn hours single-car accident on Highway 20. According to police the car, driven by …

FLORENCE – Florence Police divers have recovered the body of a car passenger who was trapped inside the car that plunged into Cypress Creek early this morning. They tried to …