Last weekend, January 22nd - 23rd , over 500 volunteers from Alabama and across the country came together in Mobile Bay to lay the beginnings of oyster reefs. The volunteers strapped on boots

Environmentalists and Urban Planners on the run as smart growth and sustainability become illegal in the State.

Even in the dark pit of poverty, where rays of hope shine their dimmest, there's often still light enough for a new life to take hold.

Cece Durden, a 17-year-old from Uniontown, Alabama, fights coal ash pollution in her hometown

Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz, says it took "robust and best practice safety measures" to ensure that the reopening of the plant was safe for its 4,200 workers.

Drea de Matteo is the proud mother of two children Waylon and Alabama. And on Monday evening the 47-year-old actress brought her little ones to the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards

It's only been a half-day since Roy Moore became the presumptive next senator from Alabama, and he's already parting ways with the president on how to replace the Obamacare law.

The tech giant, which shuttered almost all of its outlets across the globe in response to the coronavirus pandemic two months ago, announced the news on Friday.

Two men detained in the immigration detention unit in Gadsden, Alabama, threatened to jump from a ledge with bed sheets tied around their necks on March 20 because of coronavirus fears.

In addition to a fascinating history, Alabama has vibrant cities, world-class museums, a thriving music scene and 60 miles of white-sand beaches. Here are ten reasons why you should go...

In her new memoir, The Broken Road, Peggy Wallace Kennedy, 69, reminisces on growing up with her father as he tried to block racial integration during the 1960s.

Martin Luther King III recalled the 1965 march on Selma where civil rights activists were beaten and killed. He wrote: 'Under your watch, Alabama is about to produce yet another tragic injustice.'

The reality star took to Twitter to voice her support of Nathaniel Woods, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday at 6pm.

President Trump railed against Jeff Sessions, whom he ousted last year, after his former attorney general failed to outright win the Republican nomination for his old Alabama Senate seat.

Katherine Webb, who shot to fame after ESPN's cameras panned to her as she cheered on her quarterback boyfriend in the BCS Championship game, let the news slip on Twitter on Thursday.

The Male Room, located in the city of Birmingham, announced the news in Facebook Tuesday, saying they faced financial ruin if they continued to keep their doors closed.

A woman in Birmingham, Alabama, was slammed onto the floor of a Walmart store for allegedly not wearing a face mask

Earlier this month, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced an additional $4.5 million in funding to institutions in 18 states to expand selection and digitization of U.S. historic newspapers for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), including first-time awardee University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.  Seventeen other participating institutions - Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums; University of California, Riverside; Colorado Historical Society; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; State Historical Society of Iowa; Maine State Library; University of Maryland, College Park; Central Michigan University; Montana Historical Society; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Rutgers University, New Brunswick (New Jersey); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ohio History Connection; South Dakota Department of Education; University of North Texas; and Washington State Library - received additional awards, each charged with selecting and digitizing approx. 100,000 newspaper pages from their state for contribution to the online newspaper collection "Chronicling America," hosted by the Library of Congress. Since 2005, cultural institutions in 46 states and Puerto Rico have contributed more than 13 million digitized American historical newspaper pages, published between 1789 and 1963 and in 14 different languages, to the collection. 

Jointly sponsored by the NEH and LC, NDNP is a long-term effort to provide access to an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. This rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. The NEH grant program funds the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.... Read more about it & follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!!

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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers has already lined up the first job of his post-playing career. Rivers was introduced Friday as the head coach-in-waiting at St. Michael Catholic High School in a news conference on campus. The 16-year veteran of the Los Angeles Chargers signed a one-year deal worth $25 million guaranteed in March.

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