Posts by Mecca Musick
Black and gold will take over downtown Athens on Friday as the community rallies around the Golden Eagles and the start of another football season. Athens Mayor Ronnie Marks has […]
Inside a former ice skating rink turned event center, leaders from across North Alabama gathered to talk about what’s next for one of the state’s fastest-growing regions on Wednesday. The […]
Huntsville International Airport has another passenger record to add to a year already marked by rapid growth. The airport served 182,556 travelers in July, making it the busiest month in […]
Auburn University opened a new 50,000-square-foot research laboratory Tuesday in Cummings Research Park, putting more than $30 million behind an effort to move critical defense and space technologies from concept […]
North Alabama high school students considering a future at one of the nation’s military service academies will have an opportunity Saturday to learn more about the path from application to […]
One of Huntsville’s homegrown technology success stories is putting $250,000 behind Alabama’s next generation of cyber and engineering talent and bringing some of those students directly into the workplace. PROJECTXYZ […]
When Republican Aaron Thomas first entered the race for Alabama House District 10, he was a first-time candidate preparing to compete for one of the state’s most closely watched legislative […]
Huntsville Hospital Health System has landed another national workplace honor, earning a spot on Forbes’ 2026 list of America’s Best-in-State Employers. HH Health ranked No. 2 among healthcare and social […]
The United States is not currently equipped to respond to the kind of large-scale drone attack already being seen elsewhere in the world, a top U.S. Northern Command official warned […]
Want to support Kids to Love and make history? Come eat a baked potato on Sunday. LawLers Barbecue is inviting the community to The Orion Amphitheater on Sunday for “Potatoes […]
Huntsville Hospital Health System has cut workplace violence incidents by more than 28% over the past three years, part of a broader safety effort that has now earned its security […]
As military leaders at this week’s Space and Missile Defense Symposium repeatedly call on industry to deliver technology faster, Huntsville-based Aurex says it has already built its business around doing […]
U.S. Space Command Commander Gen. Stephen Whiting used one of the most anticipated addresses of the 2026 Space and Missile Defense Symposium Wednesday morning to deliver two messages with particular […]
The 2026 Space and Missile Defense Symposium opened Tuesday with a message that carried from the first military briefing of the morning to one of the most anticipated updates of […]
The Von Braun Center was buzzing Tuesday morning as the 29th annual Space and Missile Defense Symposium got underway, with giant missiles, drones, military vehicles and some of the defense […]
The conference room at the Embassy Suites in Huntsville isn’t exactly what you’d expect for headline-making defense news. But on Monday afternoon, it was packed with announcements from Lockheed Martin […]
Thousands of defense, military, space and technology leaders will descend on Huntsville this week as the 29th annual Space and Missile Defense Symposium gets underway at the Von Braun Center. […]
Limestone County Democratic Party Chairman Christopher Love has launched a new podcast aimed at providing a Democratic perspective on politics while creating space for conversations across party lines. Love, a […]
Huntsville-based aerospace and defense company Aurex plans to unveil a new secure communications concept during this week’s Space and Missile Defense Symposium, highlighting the firm’s continued expansion into advanced defense […]
When Ranae Bartlett talks about leadership, she rarely begins with herself. Instead, she talks about her father, a sharecropper’s son from Texas with only a seventh-grade education who taught himself […]
The sights, sounds and flavors of Native American culture will return to downtown Tuscumbia next month as the Oka Kapassa: Return to Coldwater Native American Festival celebrates its 24th year. […]
Just months after opening its massive defense manufacturing facility in the Shoals, Hadrian announced Thursday it has raised $1.37 billion in new financing to accelerate expansion of its highly automated […]
Alabama’s statewide network of food banks is urging Congress to give the state more time before new federal SNAP funding penalties take effect, warning that the current timeline could force […]
