In the three weeks since Pickens County dropped down to one ambulance, two women died after waiting an hour for paramedics to arrive. One woman went into cardiac arrest and died before an ambulance ...

In the town square of Eutaw, the modern world hems in a relic of an older one that no longer exists. The Eutaw Hotel is long gone. Even among older locals, the V.J. Elmore’s Five & Dime is ...

Alabama grew faster than the nation in 2025, and most of the state’s 67 counties added people. But that growth wasn’t equally distributed across the state. Instead, most of it came from north Alabama ...

Ambulance services in rural Greene County are back up and running after a brief suspension due to a funding crisis. Last week ...

So much for negotiations. Alabama's Jefferson county filed the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy yesterday. Just weeks ago it seemed Jefferson county and its creditors had dodged the bankruptcy ...

Alabama's Jefferson County has filed for what is the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. The county commission voted 4-1 in favor of seeking bankruptcy protection on Wednesday after a ...

The U.S.A. is divided into 50 states, but you probably think far less about the fact that it's also divided into 3,007 counties, each administered from a municipality called a "county seat." Most ...

An Alabama county this week is opening its first fully integrated school, which will have a student body that is roughly half white and half black. The University Charter School in west Alabama’s ...

Nov 14 (Reuters) - Jefferson County, Alabama, lawmakers voted last week to file for Chapter 9 court protection over a $3.14 billion sewer bond debt, in what is the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S.