The power struggle between the mayor and council members has escalated into a full governmental shutdown that may require ...

A small Alabama town’s police department could see an overhaul with additional officers and equipment in a federal spending ...

NEWBERN, Ala. (AP) — The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town overwhelmingly won election this week, four years after white residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve.

CHICKASAW, Ala.—A small Alabama suburb has agreed to drop pending criminal charges against its residents over unpaid garbage bills. The city’s decision follows intervention by the Southern Poverty Law ...

There’s a certain charm to places that seem frozen in time, where each creaky floorboard and weathered porch has a story to tell. When a friend of mine told me about Old Alabama Town during a ...

It was a moonshot effort for a small Southern town: Open a brand-new rural hospital in the poorest region of one of the poorest states in the nation. Thomasville, which has fewer than 4,000 residents, ...

You might come for a weekend visit, but don't be surprised if you start looking at real estate listings. That's the draw that two Alabama towns have, according to a new list from World Atlas ...