Alabama News

You always hear it's cheaper to buy a home than to rent a place to live. Now a report by the advocacy group Alabama Arise shows that is true for much of the state.

You always hear it's cheaper to buy a home than to rent a place to live. Now a report by the advocacy group Alabama Arise shows that is true for much of the state.

A report by advocacy group Alabama Arise has found that the state's 500,000 renters spend more on housing costs than homeowners and many lack enough income for affordable housing.

When I was at Telluride , I posed this question to my friend and fellow festivarian: "If you could book your own festival, who would you get?" Almost instantly, she decided on a '80s country music theme, and I ...

Mark Herndon, drummer for the legendary group Alabama, gets a ride down the sidewalk Tuesday night from Victor Shamah, owner of the Bowery.

Sometimes' it really is the thought that counts. I realized how true this saying really is while at a birthday cookout for my father Sunday afternoon.

Alabama 3 was one of the oddest musical outfits to arise from late-'90s London, but also one of the most original.

I swear I can remember the concert. I can hear the commotion, the noise and who could forget the music? I even remember dancing.

A round of applause, please, for Blake Shelton as his version of Michael Buble's "Home" scrambles this week into the No.

It all started with a simple e-mail. Our friend Susan Tucker wrote to say she was back in town, with Alabama peaches.

Jessie Farrell has had some big breaks in her brief career as a country singer. The Vancouver-raised singer-songwriter has opened for country superstars Brooks & Dunn.

Brian Duggin, of Chicago, dances to Sound Tribe Sector Nine at the Ranch Arena early Sunday morning at Rothbury.

What a fine, upstanding-looking bunch of young men, these guys in O.A.R. And supposedly they spawned from the hipster college venues of the Midwest? If you say so, Internet.

It's got to be tough. He's sold millions of albums, won countless awards, and is a member of one of the biggest country supergroups, if not the biggest country group ever, but, to promote a Randy Owen show, ...

And we do it in long blocks: 103 Minute Music Marathons of commercial free country.

The road trip is scheduled to kick off June 28 in Richland Center, WI, and visit a variety of venues, fairs and festivals across the US and into Canada through late August.

ALABAMA star RANDY OWEN is planning a busy end to 2008 - his first solo album and autobiography will be released on the same day.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.- Alabama's Randy Owen is writing a book about his life. Owen will recall his humble beginnings as the son of sharecroppers in north Alabama to eventually being inducted into the Country Music ...

After winning Song of the Year from the Country Music Association last year for his work on the George Strait hit "Give It Away," Jamey Johnson is currently gaining attention for his new song "In Color." The ...

A new U.S. postage stamp featuring Alabama's state flag will soon adorn envelopes delivered all across America.