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Former Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl will be in Huntsville next week for a program focused on substance abuse, mental health and some of the challenges young people face. Game […]

Break out the lederhosen and bring your appetite. Oktoberfest is returning to Redstone Arsenal this weekend with German food, live music, carnival rides and a couple of new ways to […]

Huntsville engineer, entrepreneur and UAH alumnus Mike Wicks is giving $1.5 million to his alma mater, putting his family’s name on a prominent space inside the university’s new engineering building. […]

Dale Strong Redstone Arsenal

U.S. Rep. Dale Strong announced that the Department of War has awarded $10.8 million to the City of Huntsville for the Resolute Way interchange, the roadway project that will provide […]

Most Merciful Jesus Catholic Parish started with Mass in a garage, then moved Sunday services to a school cafeteria. Ten years later, the Madison parish is getting ready to build […]

Come hungry and help bring baseball to more Madison athletes. More than 20 area restaurants will take over Toyota Field on Thursday for the inaugural Taste of Madison, a community […]

Alabama A&M Bulldog Bards present the 5th annual Bard in the Yard theatrical performance at The Orion on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. This year, the performers present “Shakespeare in Love […]

The Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama is expanding its education work with a new research center dedicated to studying some of the biggest questions facing Alabama schools, from funding […]

More than six decades after Wendell Gunn walked onto the campus of what was then Florence State College and made history, a new documentary will tell the story of the […]

Get ready to (finally) Rock the South

The “biggest party in the south” is ready to rock on Oct. 1- 4, 2026. For original ticket holders, the festival has been an extra four months in the making […]

Summer comes to a close this week and North Alabama has events to ring in autumn! Take your pick from these fun, first week of fall events. Free Day of […]

The Bass Anglers Sportsman Society hosted a huge weekend in Decatur, Alabama with the sixth annual Skeeter Boats Bassmaster High School Combine, first annual Alabama B.A.S.S. Fest, and first annual Bassmaster Back to […]

BBB North Alabama hosts free Shred Day in Athens 

North Alabama residents can clean out old paperwork, unwanted electronics and unused medications during a free drive-thru disposal event next month. BBB North Alabama will host its annual Athens Shred […]

11 Madison County projects awarded $106,691 in grants

Eleven Madison County-area projects will share $106,691 in grant funding from Alabama’s Mountains, Rivers & Valleys Resource Conservation & Development Council and the Madison County Legislative Delegation. The awards were […]

What was once a South Huntsville high school campus has officially begun its new life as a community destination for recreation, arts and events. The city of Huntsville celebrated the […]

Forty-four years after Cullman’s first official Oktoberfest, the festival is adding a new tradition this fall — and putting a 12-year-old Cullman girl at the center of it. Veronica “Ve” […]

Daisha Wilks and Dalton Hamby are about to race around the world on national television, but before “The Amazing Race” begins, the Northeast Alabama couple has been spending time closer […]

Order Up! Hit musical “Waitress” comes to VBC

Huntsville’s Broadway Theatre League welcomes the national touring production of “Waitress” at the Von Braun Center in the Mark C. Smith Concert Hall from September 25, 2026, to September 27, […]

Internationally bestselling author Mitch Albom will help the Huntsville-Madison County Library Foundation celebrate four decades of supporting local libraries when Vive le Livre returns next week. The Foundation’s 40th annual […]

Most kids have to wait until October to go trick-or-treating. But for one Huntsville 11-year-old who loves Halloween, his neighbors were more than willing to make an exception. Soren Griffin […]

The Huntsville Dance Community is hosting their third annual Free Day of Dance event on September 18-19, 2026. This event celebrates the variety of dancers in the Huntsville community from […]

Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Gov. Kay Ivey is calling on Alabamians to remember the nearly 3,000 people killed and make sure a new generation understands what […]

Madison swimmers could soon have a place of their own to practice and compete without having to leave the city. The city of Madison and Madison City Schools unveiled plans […]

Huntsville International Airport has two consecutive national Best Small Airport titles under its belt. Now, HSV is looking for a three-peat. The airport is once again nominated for Best Small […]