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On a wing and a prayer: Alabama Gold Wing Association motorcycle riders on trip of a lifetime

There’s nothing like riding the highway, the sun on your face, the wind at your back … just you and your buddies: “Get your motor runnin’ Head...

Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh is a 2019 Yellowhammer Woman of Impact

Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh’s political career began in high school, continued through college and then took off for good not long after she graduated from...

Contest will name Alabama’s best peach cobbler

Alabamians can currently submit nominations for the title of "Bama’s Best Peach Cobbler." Sponsored by the Alabama Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association (AFVGA), this Facebook...

Anne Moore is an Alabama Maker crafting simple but stunning jewelry

After finding her vibe as a metalsmith, Anne Moore creates simple and clean jewelry for everyday use. She started making beaded pieces for family and...

Vending machines, toilets, prosthetic leg: Renew Our Rivers volunteers recall stuff pulled from Alabama waterways

As Renew Our Rivers celebrates its 20th year, longtime volunteers are remembering the early days of the campaign and how it has changed Alabama’s waterways for...

Jeanie Thompson of the Alabama Writers’ Forum finds the best connections are unscripted

Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum in Montgomery, never planned to write a book of poems on Helen Keller. In 2016 she did just...

‘Frogs’ was a learning experience for Mobile’s Hannah Touchton

Mobile fifth-grader Hannah Touchton has two Ruths in her life. Her sister. And a frog. The frog is the Ruth she is most likely known for,...

Urban Cookhouse’s David and Andrea Snyder are concept creators, not just restaurant owners

In a single decade, David and Andrea Snyder will have launched two dining concepts and opened six restaurants as owners. “It’s been an amazing journey,”...

Couple creates restaurant-retail campus on Alabama Gulf Coast

It’s been 35 years since Brian Harsany got his first job in the restaurant industry, and he never looked back. Brian started busing tables...

Alabama Church Protection Act, bill to allow Bible elective classes in public schools advance in legislature

MONTGOMERY -- Respective bills to extend "stand your ground" law to churches and allow the Bible to be taught as an elective social studies...

Practicing what she teaches: UAB creative writing director Kerry Madden-Lunsford has new children’s book

Kerry Madden-Lunsford first met Ernestine Upchurch more than a decade ago. It was just after the 2005 release of “Gentle’s Holler,” the first of three young...

Dothan woman wins ‘Top Chef’ competition, $135k prize

Alabama's Kelsey Barnard Clark has won one of America's most prominent culinary contests. The Dothan native and owner of KBC restaurant in the "Peanut Capital...

East Alabama tornado survivor: ‘I thank the Lord’ for saving me

One 72-year-old Beauregard woman's faith has been strengthened in the midst of terrible tragedy. Amid the rubble of what was her house just minutes before, Earnestine...

Record level of film activity puts Alabama in industry spotlight

Building on a record-setting year for film projects in Alabama, the stage appears set for a sequel, with a string of movie productions already...

Auburn University to build world-class culinary center for students, tourism industry

A culinary science center unlike any other is coming to Auburn University in 2021. The university’s Board of Trustees took the final steps Feb. 15 to create...

Chef John Hall has big plans in Birmingham

John Hall could cook anywhere in the world. He’s talented enough. He’s driven enough. But seven years ago, he chose to come home to...

Mobile boy battling chronic illness surprised with Disney trip — ‘God prevails’

Members of the Mobile community are coming together to help a six-year-old fighting a chronic illness. WALA reported that Christian, the young boy, was surprised...

Alabama chefs and bar named James Beard semifinalists for 2019

Some familiar names in Alabama’s culinary world are semifinalists for the 2019 James Beard Awards, announced Wednesday morning by the James Beard Foundation. Birmingham’s The Atomic Lounge for the second...

Dolester Miles enjoys sweet success after James Beard Award

The second morning after Dolester Miles won the 2018 James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef in America, her Instagram account lit up with its...

Southern National serves ‘globally inspired Southern food’ in Mobile

Restaurateurs and friends Reginald “Reggie” Washington and Duane Nutter opened Southern National in 2017, serving “globally inspired Southern food” in the historic Wilkins-Higgins Building in Mobile’s...

Alabama documentary up for an Oscar this weekend

Nearly 80 years after Walker Evans and James Agee shined a light on life in Hale County, Alabama, Greensboro and its environs are taking...

Legally blind Huntsville high school wrestler wins state championship

This weekend, Jay Spencer became the first wrestler in his school's history to win a state title. And even more impressively, he did so...

Watch: Alexander Shunnarah helps with Alabama ‘promposal’

Billboards. Television commercials. Print ads. Everyone in Alabama knows Alexander Shunnarah. In fact, the Birmingham-based trial lawyer has become a true celebrity figure in the...

Alabama named most financially friendly state for seniors

A new report has named Alabama as the most financially friendly state for senior citizens. Research released this week by Stannah revealed, "The main reason senior...