Former topless car wash owner Derrick Belcher petitioned for the state of Alabama to secede from the United States of America two weeks ago, but several Uniersity of Alabama history and political science...

A text message was all it took for Nicole Schimmel to understand the full extent of the devastation left by Hurricane Sandy in late October. Schimmel, a junior majoring in public relations at The University...

Colorado and Washington legalized recreational marijuana on Tuesday, Nov. 6, but the passing of similar legalization in the state of Alabama does not appear likely, at least not in the near future. “It...

The University of Alabama’s undergraduate accounting program is ranked 18th in the country, according to Public Accounting Report’s 2012 Annual Professors Survey. The program jumped two spots from...

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley addressed a group of veterans Monday morning in honor of Veterans Day at an event hosted by the Veterans Memorial Park Association, in spite of cold rain. “As I’m sitting...

Alabama has the worst economy in the Southeast, according to research conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. For two years, Alabama has had the worst economy in the region, based on the...

Alabama’s gender wage gap is among the worst in the nation, according to a recent study by the National Women’s Law Center. “There are a few things that we usually see in the states [with higher...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist-activist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas asked University of Alabama students how they plan to respond to increasing diversity in America in a talk centered...

By Adrienne Burch and Morgan Reames The number of people choosing to walk instead of drive or use public transportation is on a steady decline across the U.S. Only 1.4 percent of Tuscaloosa residents...