Calhoun County faces shorter lives, high chronic disease and opioid risks — yet local agencies and nonprofits are fighting back with screenings, support and prevention efforts.

Monroeville, Alabama, is one of those places that makes you do a double-take because surely nowhere real looks this good. But here’s the thing: Monroeville is absolutely real, and it’s been hiding in ...

There is debate over taxpayer money being used to bail out struggling hospitals. This comes after the state pledged millions of dollars to help Jackson Hospital in ...

Recent statistics show that, per capita, Alabama’s Black Belt region has some of the highest rates of children in foster care in the state. Nearly 6,000 children in Alabama were in foster care as of ...

Alabama’s 2022 law reshaped math instruction at the elementary level by providing money for all schools to hire math coaches ...

Math scores across the board have risen in the years after the pandemic, but a stubborn gap remains between poor schools and the state average.

Posted: February 13, 2026 | Last updated: February 13, 2026 America’s poorest county lies in the Mississippi Delta. We went to Claiborne County to see what life is like, and it was nothing like what ...

With original and traditional music, students from Owsley County High School write and perform a play about growing up in rural Appalachia. While overcoming problems of addiction in one of the ...

A Demopolis teenager died in an early morning crash Jan. 31 in Marengo County, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. The 17-year-old, whose name was not released, was killed around 12:15 ...

COVINGTON COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) - The Covington County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Marshals Service are asking for the public’s assistance in finding wanted fugitive John Caton Lee. Lee is wanted for ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday told Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz that it is not “cool” that robots are performing ultrasounds in Alabama, after Oz ...