City Stories

January 2nd, 2017

Citizen Classroom: 
Why police do what they do

Huntsville Police train citizens and media on what it’s like to be a cop on the street Dangerous, complex scenarios [Read More]

December 27th, 2016

2016 Year in Review: Mayor Battle looks back on a great year

Pictured Above:  February announcement at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center on Huntsville becoming a Gig City with Mayor Battle, Huntsville [Read More]

December 27th, 2016

Keeping the Christmas spirit year-round in City Hall

Pictured above:  Officer Tory Green volunteers at the Boys and Girls Club of North Alabama, an organization that provided mentoring [Read More]

December 22nd, 2016

Tide’s Coach Johnson on playing in Huntsville – “We took off like a rocket”

Photo by Eric Schultz The signs taped to the doors told the story. The Rocket City Classic was sold out. [Read More]

December 21st, 2016

Rocket City Classic:
Lessons learned on and off the court

Pictured above:  Crimson Tide Men’s Basketball Coach Avery Johnson and his players show some of their favorite moves to members [Read More]

December 19th, 2016

Alabama Men’s Basketball team arrives in Huntsville for Rocket City Classic

Pictured Above: Alabama Men’s Basketball Coach Avery Johnson As his Alabama basketball players paired up with students from the Boys [Read More]

December 13th, 2016

Who’s responsible for ditch maintenance?

You don’t even notice them until you make it a mission to go find them. Then you can’t help see [Read More]

December 6th, 2016

Will Huntsville win the Georgetown Energy Prize? Why it matters.

Here in football country, this is not an inappropriate analogy: Huntsville has the lead, at least the last time it [Read More]

November 30th, 2016

Can we hurry up and finish Zierdt Road?

Photo of Zierdt Road construction courtesy of SJ & L General Contractors  The $25-million Zierdt Road construction project is on [Read More]

November 30th, 2016

Behind the Scenes:
Putting on the Rocket City Classic

Basketball, for all its superstar players, remains a quintessential team sport. So, too, is the task of orchestrating a basketball [Read More]