HUNTSVILLE – Scientists from the University of Alabama in Huntsville are preparing to study hurricane characteristics to better predict the intensity of these storms before they make landfall. Hurricane season […]

HUNTSVILLE — Radiance Technologies is joining Peraton in delivering scientific and technical intelligence solutions to the Defense Intelligence Agency/Missile and Space Intelligence Center. Peraton was awarded the SIA 3 Countering […]

FAIRFIELD – Miles College and Drake State Community & Technical College have partnered to create scholarship opportunities and pathways to earning a bachelor’s degree. The institutions’ presidents signed an articulation […]

HUNTSVILLE – Aviagen has made a significant donation toward the development of a Poultry Science Smart Farming Research Facility for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. Called the […]

RESTON, Va. — Peraton has secured a $284 million contract to support the Defense Intelligence Center in Huntsville. The five-year task order is to provide solutions to counter advanced weapons […]

FLORENCE — The University of North Alabama continues to expand its academic offerings in its effort to ensure a qualified and well-equipped workforce for the Shoals area, the school announced. […]

HUNTSVILLE — Something cold, sweet and creamy has landed in downtown Huntsville. Husband and wife duo Ryan and Geri-Martha O’Hara will officially open Birmingham-based Big Spoon Creamery on Saturday in […]

ATHENS — The bookworms are coming out of the woodwork to turn over a new “leaf” in reading. Just because school is out doesn’t mean children or parents, should stop […]

MONTGOMERY — Innovate Alabama is launching yet another program to aid the state’s “innovative and underrepresented” small businesses. Thanks to Gov. Kay Ivey’s “Game Plan,” the organization was able to […]

HUNTSVILLE — McGehee Engineering is using Drone LiDAR from Huntsville’s GeoCue to assist in the design of a coal conveyor belt. McGehee Engineering found its niche in Alabama’s coal mining […]

WASHINGTON — While the move of Space Command to Redstone Arsenal is becoming a political football, there is no such problem with the FBI’s game plan for Huntsville. In fact, […]

HUNTSVILLE — HealthŌme, a genomics-based, health navigation company, has acquired  Kailos Genetics, a genetic testing laboratory and supplier of clinical grade laboratory reagents for next-generation genomic sequencing. Both companies are […]

HUNTSVILLE — Boasting a new way to deliver health care, WeCare tlc is hosting an open house for its health and wellness center at Bridge Street Town Centre. The event […]

  The taxpayer wins  Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth and House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels will be on the Mount Rushmore of Alabama tax cuts. They both brought bold, bipartisan proposals […]

MONTGOMERY — A pair of grants totaling $500,000 will help create nearly three dozen jobs in Good Hope, Gov. Kay Ivey announced this week. A $250,000 grant from the Appalachian […]

MONTGOMERY – Calling the Education Trust Fund a “historic investment,” Gov. Kay Ivey signed the state’s budgets Thursday, including the General Fund and the supplemental and the Education Trust Fund […]

MONTGOMERY — State lawmakers reached a final agreement Thursday on how to cut the grocery tax.  As prices have risen across the board, Alabama’s 4% sales tax on food has […]

HUNTSVILLE – Parsons hosted an outdoor brunch and commemoration ceremony today marking the delivery to the Air Force of the first of 13 Recovery of Airbase Denied by Ordnance systems. […]

HUNTSVILLE – There will be some fishy business going on Saturday at the Brahan Spring Park North Lagoon. It’s the 39th annual Wally Vess Youth Fishing Rodeo. Anglers ages 6-12 […]

LOUISVILLE, Colo. – The revolutionary Dream Chaser spaceplane powered up in a simulated test recently, Sierra Space announced. Dream Chaser represents a groundbreaking leap in space transportation technology, the company […]

    256 Today is proud to present the Our Town Podcast. Check here every week for the latest episode from Troy Bye, North Alabama’s newest favorite son. The Our […]

HUNTSVILLE – While athletes were competing for gold, Huntsville was seeing green. And, a lot of it. The Rocket City is quickly becoming a sports city, if last week was […]

MONTGOMERY — As tax cuts continue to carry the thunder of the legislative session’s final days, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle made a timely push to become the […]

HUNTSVILLE – On an unseasonably mild and breezy day for late May, representatives from the city of Huntsville and the Land Trust of North Alabama gathered on the Alabama A&M […]