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HUNTSVILLE — Huntsville City School Board member Ryan Renaud has announced his campaign to run for a full-term. Renaud was appointed last June to fill the seat of Walker McGinnis, […]

Stephen Tyler Davis proves you can go home again. The Huntsville native has been named the first artistic director of the Fantasy Playhouse Children’s Theater & Academy. “I am absolutely […]

HUNTSVILLE — “Recharge,” a free online mental health resource for teachers, was launched Monday as part of Teacher Appreciation Week. Leadership Greater Huntsville’s L-35 Flagship Class created the program to […]

Nature lovers were chirping last week when Huntsville Botanical Garden held a ribbon-cutting for the opening of the final phase of Tweetsville, a section of the Children’s Garden centered on […]

New Century Technology Demo High School placed second among high schools based on US News & World Report’s new Best High Schools in Alabama. Five other high schools in North […]

Parents and students have only until Friday, April 29, to nominate teachers for the What’s Pop’N Kernels of Knowledge campaign throughout the Huntsville, Madison City, Madison County, Decatur and Hartselle-area […]

HUNTSVILLE — None of the children attending Space Camp yesterday are old enough to remember any of the Apollo missions, but when 86-year-old Brig. Gen. Charles “Charlie” Duke, one of […]

VOICES for Alabama’s Children has released its Alabama Kids Count Data Book, the latest report on the health, safety, education and financial well-being of Alabama’s children, just as Alabama lawmakers […]

You may never be able to make a crab walk straight, but Huntsville’s 8th-grade Cool Robots and Builders (C.R.A.B.) robotics team is making a beeline for the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) […]

While labor and supply shortages continue to agitate the booming building and construction industry in Madison County, Caroline Reed, an instructor at New Century Technology High School, has teamed up […]

According to studies from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, the United States is in the midst of a critical nursing shortage that is expected to continue through […]

The Nerdettes, Huntsville’s all-girl FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) robotics team, has qualified to compete against 160 teams from across the world at the FIRST Tech Robotics National Championship in Houston, […]

The University of North Alabama (UNA) College of Business and Technology on Thursday announced that it had received a $2.45 million charitable gift from the estate of late Henry and […]

An image created by University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) astrophysicists who did pioneering research to quantify processes involved in gas mixing in the tails of galaxies being stripped of […]

Plans by the University of Alabama in Huntsville to help create a “college town” experience are one step closer toward becoming a reality following the Huntsville City Council’s approval of […]

I survived as a middle school substitute teacher

I got a text from my friend, Mecca. She asked me if I would write about what it’s like answering the call to be a substitute teacher in Madison City […]

Yes, much like old cars abandoned in a junkyard where only sentimental mechanics go to strip them of reusable parts, so go once magnificent pieces of spaceflight hardware to the […]

Dr. Haihong Che, a solar physicist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been awarded a five-year, $616,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award to study how solar flares […]

“It’s not like TV.” That’s what Huntsville Attorney Bart Siniard says he wanted students that participated in a recent legal day event in Huntsville to understand about the legal profession. […]

Oakwood University, a student's perspective

256 Today has invited local student writers to share their post-secondary education experiences in North Alabama. This week’s feature comes from Huntsville native and Oakwood University Student Desiree Brown. My […]

New research to make future computer solid state drives (SSDs) more resilient, durable and energy-efficient has attracted a five-year, $650,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for […]

The University of North Alabama is the first among schools in Alabama to sign a historic partnership with the Cherokee Nation to offer scholarship opportunities to their more than 400,000 […]