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Greene County Suspends Ambulance Service as Rural Alabama EMS Teeters
GREENE COUNTY, Ala. — Greene County has suspended its county-run ambulance service, the latest breakdown in a rural emergency care system that leaders warn is failing across Alabama’s Black Belt. The suspension comes as neighboring Pickens County moves to stabilize its own service with voter-approved funding, underscoring how uneven local support is leaving some communities…
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Breeze Airways Brings Cheap, Convenient Nonstops to Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Travelers at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport now have a new way to reach Florida and North Carolina without connections, as Breeze Airways began twice-weekly nonstop service July 3 with introductory fares as low as $49. The Utah-based carrier launched flights between Birmingham and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Birmingham and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, operating…
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Former Casino Boat ‘Argosy VI’ Sunk to Expand Alabama’s Artificial Reef Zone
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — A former Ohio River casino riverboat that once billed itself as the world’s largest was intentionally sunk off Alabama’s Gulf Coast this week to become one of the state’s biggest artificial reefs, adding to a program that dates to the 1950s and now spans more than 1,100 square miles of offshore…
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AI-Generated Hoax Claims Alabama Weeklies were Bought and Shut Down
BOSTON — An investigation by Nieman Journalism Lab, an AI watchdog group, found that an AI-generated site circulated a fabricated story claiming a company had bought and shuttered dozens of small Alabama newspapers, a false narrative that briefly spread across social platforms and content-aggregation services. A fake story circulating online claimed that 1819 News had…
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Residents Fight HOA Plan to Kill Canada Geese in Madison
MADISON, Ala. — A North Alabama homeowners association is pressing ahead with a plan to remove hundreds of Canada geese from a neighborhood lake, even after residents sued to stop the cull and another nearby HOA reversed a similar decision amid public pressure. Heritage Plantation in Madison approved a plan to kill up to 500…
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Alabama Prison Mental-Health Case Stays Largely Intact after Appeals Ruling
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal appeals court has left most of a sweeping order requiring Alabama to improve mental health care in its prisons in place, preserving much of the oversight in the long-running Braggs prison-mental-health case. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in late June, affirming the district court’s liability…
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