Charlie Utterback stands in his kitchen, a mine map laid in front of him. He's worried he and his wife may eventually have to leave their home of 25 years because of damage caused by mining activity.

On Oct. 22, 1916, the company suffered a tragedy familiar to miners: An explosion killed 17 miners and one rescue worker, ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The lines on Alabama's congressional map have shifted — along with some of the state's political power. After a high-profile legal fight that lasted roughly two years, a ...

Alabama History! Adventure Archaeology. Exploring red mountain mine archeological site in Alabama. Posted: March 20, 2025 | Last updated: March 20, 2025.

Roughly 900 miners went out on strike on April 1, 2021, and most were able to start the process of returning to the mine this week. Some unionized workers had crossed the picket line and returned ...

Alabama finally has a new congressional map after a lengthy legal fight. Stephan Bisaha, Gulf States Newsroom | October 9, 2023. A line of people wait outside the federal courthouse in Birmingham ...

Last Friday, Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a new congressional district map that appears to openly defy an order issued by the Supreme Court just six weeks ago. Sign up here.

A federal court on Thursday approved a new congressional map in Alabama that significantly boosts the Black population of a second district and could represent a pickup opportunity for Democrats ...

For the first time since the Supreme Court weighed in, on Tuesday, Alabama will vote using its new Congressional map that gives Black voters more power.

Alabama’s New Congressional Map Fits the Justices’ Ruling It’s the voting-rights plaintiffs who are defiant. The court never ordered the creation of a second black district.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A panel of federal judges on Monday began a review of Alabama’s redrawn congressional map, which opponents argued defies the court’s mandate to create a second district ...

Marvel was once a thriving coal mining community in Bibb County, ... Ruins tell tragic story of once-thriving Alabama mining town. Updated: Jan. 15, ... a map of the area shows the absence of ...