Alabama officials say there has been progress on a $31 million project to fix widespread sewage overflows in the struggling Black Belt city of Uniontown, but in the meantime the sewage, and the ...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Alabama's attorney general is looking into voting in Uniontown, where the recent election raised questions after there were more registered voters than the town's listed ...

Uniontown, Alabama has raised funds to mend its long deficient wastewater system. But residents are concerned about their level of involvement in the decision-making. Members of Black Belt Citizens ...

Sewage overflows in Uniontown — onto private property, under homes and into creeks — as it has for over a decade. Consequently, the city of Uniontown and its waterworks and sewer board have been ...

“My dream,” said Ben Eaton, one of the roughly 3,000 people who live in the working-class, mostly African-American hamlet of Uniontown, Alabama, “was to grow up, get married, build my own home, and ...

In West Alabama, an empty Main Street houses the corpse of the town’s only grocery store. The Piggly Wiggly closed in 2018. Five churches stand within a few blocks' radii, all with tall steeples, ...

“They put dumps in Black and Brown communities, poor communities, that they think can’t fight back,’’ said Esther Calhoun, an independent activist and former president of Black Belt Citizens Fighting ...

UNIONTOWN, Ala. (WHNT) — According to District Attorney Robert H. Turner, Jr., 4th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, two people were arrested in Huntsville in connection with the murder of a Uniontown man.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PERRY COUNTY, Ala. — Authorities confirm ...

The Arrowhead landfill in Uniontown, Ala., has drawn complaints from residents since it opened in 2007, and more since it started accepting coal ash in 2008. Photo courtesy of Michael D. Smith “My ...