USA Health CEO Owen Bailey honored with Alabama Hospital Association’s Gold Medal

G. Owen Bailey, MSHA, FACHE, chief executive officer and senior associate vice president for Medical Affairs of USA Health, the health system for the University of South Alabama, has been awarded the Alabama Hospital Association’s highest honor—the Gold …

Alabama Dept. of Corrections graduates 92 officers

Posted: Jun 19, 2025 7:37 AM CDT by WAKA Action 8 News The Alabama Department of Corrections has graduated 92 new corrections officers. The ceremony was held yesterday at the Church of the Highlands in Montgomery, where family and friends watched the new …

Alabama to verify citizenship of registered voters with SAVE program

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to gain access to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program, a program …

Alabama advocates react to SCOTUS ruling on gender-affirming care for minors

Reviewing Alabama’s recent quarterback flips

Alabama's football program has successfully flipped promising quarterbacks, solidifying its future at the position. Recently, four-star quarterback Jett Thomalla decommitted from Iowa State to join the Crimson Tide after a strong visit to Tuscaloosa. …

Video: Fire Destroys Home in Duncanville, Alabama Overnight

Late last night a fire in Duncanville appeared to all but destroy the house that was engulfed in flames. We don’t have information on the occupants of the home at this time but we are working to determine if everyone was evacuated safely. No cars were seen …

Massive SNAP cuts could kill hundreds of Alabama grocery stores, ‘send hunger soaring’

Jimmy Wright fears that if the federal government follows through on major cuts to food assistance programs, he’ll have to lay off some of the people who work at his grocery store in Alabama. At Wright’s Market, an independent grocery store in Opelika, …

Juneteenth 2025: 160 years later, Alabama finally celebrates the end of slavery

This is an opinion cartoon. “Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any …

This Alabama butcher shop and market doubles as one of the best steakhouses in the state

In 2014, Dena Smith opened Corks & Cattle in Enterprise as a traditional butcher shop and market with a casual wine bar in the back. Little did she know that over the next decade, it would become a restaurant beloved by its community and known as one …

Observing Juneteenth and Alabama's Negro League history

Today is Alabama’s first ever annual observance of Juneteenth. That’s the date back in 1865 when enslaved blacks in Texas learned that the Civil War was over and slavery had ended. Baseball fans in Birmingham will also mark the day with an annual negro …