Outdoors — Page 8

HUNTSVILLE — Is your mouth watering yet? The 14th annual Battle of the Buffalo Wing Festival and the 5k Salmon Run will have you huffing, puffing and salivating Saturday in […]

HUNTSVILLE — The Masters is over and you didn’t win again this year but there is a new challenge ahead for Huntsville duffers. The Downtown Open on the Courthouse Square […]

HUNTSVILLE – Wednesday is the last day for 2023 Huntsville Beautification Awards nominations. Any Huntsville-licensed commercial, business or government property at least one year old and within the city limits […]

DECATUR — Launch 2035 and the Singing River Trail have are developing a master plan connecting Decatur to the Shoals, building on the original master plan that connected Huntsville to […]

MADISON – The City of Madison, in partnership with the Madison Chamber of Commerce and accompanied by the cheerful antics of Trash Pandas mascot Sprocket, officially declared the east end […]

MADISON — The Kendall family is hedging their bets that after eight years as a landscaping and design firm working out of their home, their new location in a refurbished […]

Huntsville lands Major League Fishing championship

HUNTSVILLE – Rockets will still be rumbling, music will still be playing, and the fish will be biting in Huntsville in 2025. Major League Fishing announced Tuesday that Huntsville will […]

Q&A: Mitch Reid and The Nature Conservancy

Mitch Reid is making a significant impact through his efforts to preserve Alabama’s land and water assets as the current Alabama State Director of the Nature Conservancy (TNC). With a […]

Third case of deer disease in Lauderdale County

MONTGOMERY — A third case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a hunter-harvested, white-tailed deer has been confirmed in Lauderdale County, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced. […]

TUSCUMBIA — A Colbert County couple have donated a nearly-700 acre preserve to Land Trust of North Alabama. Jim and Faye Lacefield have donated Cane Creek Canyon Nature Preserve, a […]

Athens Farmers Market undergoes expansion, renaming

ATHENS — It was a shivering February morning, but several dozen Athens residents and city leaders braved the wintry weather to kick off the renovation of the Athens Farmers’ Market, […]

Branching out: Decatur named Tree City USA

DECATUR – Warren Buffet said someone is sitting in the shade today, because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The City of Decatur has been planting trees for […]

No moss growing on the Singing River Trail

MOORESVILLE – This spring when you begin attending Trash Pandas’ baseball games, notice those extra wide sidewalk sections just past right field at Toyota Field. You will be walking on […]

HUNTSVILLE — If you thought Winter Park and the ice skating rink at the Orion Amphitheater were just a holiday thing, you are missing the best part of the winter […]

MOORESVILLE – Based loosely on the business reality television show “Shark Tank,” and building on the success of last year’s program, Launch2035 is accepting applications for the second annual Singing […]

AAA writer found Huntsville to be a blast

HUNTSVILLE – Huntsville’s stalwart growth and regional economic success, booming job market, and wavering affordability when it comes to housing is somewhat of a mystery to people from the outside […]

Festival of the Cranes landing in Decatur

DECATUR – More than 14,000 Sandhill cranes and several pairs of whooping cranes will be heading to Decatur for the winter. To celebrate the annual migration, the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge […]

HUNTSVILLE – You know that warm, cheerful, even romantic feeling you get from watching a holiday movie – the ones where everyone is filled with good cheer, baking, shopping, decorating […]

Eagle Awareness Weekends soar into Lake Guntersville

GUNTERSVILLE — America’s national symbol, the bald eagle, will be celebrated in January and February when Lake Guntersville State Park hosts Eagle Awareness Weekends. The annual event gives wildlife enthusiasts […]

HUNTSVILLE – Land Trust of North Alabama recently received a donation from Beth Freeman Buckelew of 320 acres in Limestone County near Athens. The property was willed to the Land […]

BIRMINGHAM – Four Huntsville business leaders have been selected to Innovate Alabama’s recently established Council on Outdoor Recreation and to the Outdoor Recreation Advisory Roundtable. Darrell Ezell, director of Diversity Equity & […]

ATHENS – The 2022 Athens-Limestone County Christmas Parade marches through the streets of Athens this evening but, if you can’t make it, Jerome and Tiffany Malone are hosting a livestream […]

Polar Express pulls into downtown Madison this weekend

MADISON – All aboard! The Madison Polar Express Christmas Trees & Wassail Fest on Main pulls into historic downtown Madison train station Friday. The event from 5:30-7 p.m. brings the […]

HUNTSVILLE – The Land Trust of North Alabama and the Huntsville Planning Department are holding a series of forums next week seeking public input on the city’s Greenway Master Plan. […]