NEWS

The May 19th Russellville City Council meeting was an emotional one as two men received Good Samaritan Life Saver Awards for their efforts in saving the lives of two Littleville residents. The fath...read more

Once again, the RCS Rocketry Team is among the best in the nation. Two teams from Russellville competed at the Team America Rocketry Challenge this weekend in Washington, D.C., after qualifying aga...read more

You might not have known Roy Gober personally, but chances are your lives were made safer as a result of his years of dedicated service helping Franklin County residents prepare for and protect them...read more

The Franklin County Commission approved a tax abatement for G&G Steel and Franklin Manufacturing that will open a door for a two-step expansion project that will include construction of a new faci...read more

The Alabama State Council on the Arts recently awarded over $2.5 million in Creative Places Arts Facilities Grants to 64 nonprofit organizations. The Franklin County Arts and Humanities Council was on...read more

Reprinted with permission of the Red Bay News: Two Belgreen students – one from Red Bay, the other from Russellville – have snagged the school’s first state championship in fishin...read more

In what is becoming an annual rite of passage, the Franklin County Board of Education approved an out-of-state trip for the Tharptown High School Rocketry Team to once again travel to The Plains, Va...read more

When the Town of Phil Campbell hired an engineering firm to observe and inspect a 10-partition building on Broad Street, it was the next step in a process to determine the safety and structural integr...read more

  Jamie Harris has announced his candidacy for re-election as Russellville City Councilman for District Five in the August 26, 2025, municipal election. Harris was first elected in 2012 to repr...read more

It’s not often you see unanimity in the volatile political body known as the Alabama Legislature, but a bill that will lower Alabama’s grocery tax one percent sailed through both the Ala...read more

A bill sponsored by Rep. Jamie Kiel (R-Russellville) would eliminate playoff games between private and public schools in all sports sanctioned by the Alabama High School Athletic Association. HB 547,...read more

    Each of the 48 Franklin County establishments that received health ratings during the period of April 1, 2025 through May 1, 2025, had scores that fell into the “satisfactory c...read more

April 29, 2022, wasn't supposed to be a significant work day for former Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton. Having already announced he would not seek a third term and would retire the followin...read more

A Phil Campbell man facing an attempted murder charge is asking a Franklin County Circuit Judge to dismiss the case based on Alabama's 'Stand Your Ground' law. Elton Lee Strickland, 51, was arrested ...read more

With soaring costs for just about all raw materials these days, Franklin County Engineer Jason Baggett received an unexpected surprise when the bid for three repaving projects came in sufficiently und...read more