The school board voted unanimously to give “pandemic pay” in the amount of $500 to everyone on the payroll. Read the full story
HEFLIN — Cleburne County is one step closer to having its portion of the Chief Ladiga Trail repaved. During a called meeting Tuesday afternoon the commission voted to apply for a grant through the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs to help cover the proposed costs totaling …
At least one Anniston City Council member wants to put a stop to parking in yards, though official action is yet to take place.
The 108 sirens distributed throughout the county are most frequently heard when they’re being tested, as they were Tuesday at 4 p.m., and the first Tuesday of every month prior.
Positivity hardly rates as the day’s most prominent contagion, but it has returned to feed the starved as Anniston’s boys prepare to face Booker T. Washington and the girls ready for Rogers in Thursday morning’s Class 4A title games.
A proposed bill that would use city property tax dollars to fund county license and revenue offices has been dropped, according to Calhoun County officials.
Approval over the weekend of a third vaccine against COVID-19 can only help, a UAB medical expert said Monday, although officials say it’s still not clear when the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be available in Calhoun County.
The Melee at McClellan, a race that brought 600 teen mountain bikers and their parents to Anniston last March, is scheduled to return again on March 20, unless the pandemic takes a turn for the worse, a McClellan official said Monday.
About 30 people sat around the Zinn Park's Martin Luther King Jr. pavilion to hear doctors give information about the COVID-19 vaccine and answer questions.
Anniston’s school board last week voted to “start the process” of closing Tenth Street, a declaration of intent that has policymakers now waiting like parents in a pickup line.
By 2000, the city’s population dipped another 5.5 percent, and it didn’t get better in 2010 (a 14.5 percent loss) or 2020 (a 7.5 percent loss). Sounds like Anniston, but it isn't.
Members of the Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce assembled via Zoom Friday in a virtual version of the chamber’s annual update on the status of the state and local economy.
The bill, which has yet to be introduced for addition to the 2021 Alabama legislative session and as yet has no named sponsor, would distribute part of the county’s overhead among cities.
Statewide and in Calhoun County, the coronavirus situation looks better than it has in months.
Next week’s Opioid Roundtable will be a virtual version of the annual anti-drug event organized by the Anniston-based nonprofit Agency for Substance Abuse Prevention.
This unholy tilt is embedded within what James Cobb, the superb Deep South chronicler at the University of Georgia, calls the Southern strategy of labor relations.
Here's a rundown of notable action in the Alabama Legislature for Wednesday, Feb. 24.
A bill in the Alabama Legislature would stop the growth of police jurisdictions in the state and rein in municipalities’ ability to enforce planning and zoning requirements outside their limits.
Alabama’s House of Repreresentatives unanimously passed two bills related to denying bail for those accused of committing violent crimes and creating a sexual assault survivor “bill of rights” on Tuesday.
The Oxford City Council Tuesday OK'd an application to the state’s Department of Economic and Community Affairs for 80 percent of the cost to replace the dilapidated bridge.
“You’re paying it forward by buying a Payday,” one teacher said.
The meeting was moved to the rec center to accommodate the crowd which included past Cleburne County wrestlers and coaches.
The Jacksonville City Council voted Monday evening to contribute public funds toward the construction of two additional recreational trails in the city.
According to Kim Brown, Cleburne County administrator, the county’s share of the $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill signed into law last March was $550,000.
The Alabama Senate is set to take up debate about a wide-ranging lottery and gambling bill by Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston — but some of Marsh’s colleagues in the House are taking a wait-and-see approach before supporting the plan.
Gov. Kay Ivey proclaimed Monday Supermarket Employee Day in Alabama as a way to honor grocery store workers who continued to work throughout the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
