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Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft said there will not be a Hangout Music Festival or Sand in My Boots Festival in 2026, but planning is already underway for a 2027 festival.

Auburn head football coach Alex Golesh believes he retained 'one of the best football minds in the countryhttps://1819news.com/admin/entries/news/290223-auburn-head-coach-alex-golesh-dj-was-the-defensive-coordinator-i-wanted-to-hire#tab01-article-content' in defensive coordinator DJ Durkin.

In a post from the White House's official Rapid Response account, the Trump administration thanked Governor Kay Ivey for leading Alabama's efforts to make the state's roadways safer by removing and detaining illegal aliens operating as unlicensed truckers.

Gabrielle Gunter, the now-former editor of Alice Magazine, the University of Alabama publication for women, continued her tour to feed the leftwing outrage machine this weekend.

Alabama made this year's College Football Playoff after getting trounced in the SEC Championship Game this weekend, and former Notre Dame star quarterback Joe Theismann is wondering how the committee got things "so wrong."

The FBI has announced BLM activists Lillian Jayne Colburn and Mercutio Terrell Southall, both of Birmingham, are facing two federal charges of arson and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

On Monday afternoon, the Decatur Police Department announced the arrest of two illegal aliens and five others as part of an online child exploitation sting.

Mobile County Commissioner Randall Dueitt expressed concern Monday after he said the City of Mobile has not paid rent for its space in Government Plaza in three months.

Georgia Southern University and Appalachian State University will meet in the 19th JLab Birmingham Bowl on December 29. 

What remains of Christmas past is this: the feeling of those weeks, compressed now into something both smaller and larger than they were. How the waiting itself became the thing we waited for. How we rushed toward events that we also wanted never to arrive, because arrival meant ending, and ending meant the long, ordinary months that followed.

Notre Dame fans complained on Sunday about not being included in the College Football Playoffs.

Members of the Montgomery City Council will vote on Monday afternoon on whether to proceed on a purchase of the old Montgomery Advertiser buildings.

The Islamic Academy of Alabama has formally withdrawn its rezoning application to the City of Hoover. While the Planning and Zoning Board voted last week to recommend that the Hoover City Council deny the application, ultimately, it would have been up to the council at their January 2026 meeting. 

Read Freely Alabama and several national pro-LGBT groups joined together in opposition to the Alabama Public Library Service's recent change to the administrative code.

A talented group of middle schoolers from the Birmingham area recently formed a band and has big plans to rock and roll their way into careers in music.

No. 12 Alabama cruised past UTSA, leading from start to finish, with a 97-55 victory.

After a 10-year-long journey, the founder and CEO of Blanket Fort Hope, Alexa James, is now seeing a vision and calling come to fruition: providing a safe haven and restoration to victims of child sex trafficking.

The Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts released its audit looking into the Birmingham Water Works. The agency looked at records from May 1, 2023, to May 31, 2025. It identified four findings that support the legislative restructuring of the board into a regional board.

Earlier this week, U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Huntsville) took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to highlight Republican accomplishments at the 11-month mark of the White House and Capitol Hill under GOP leadership.

From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success.

The hopes for Alabama to make the playoffs were left in the hands of the selection committee after getting a third loss handed to them by Georgia in the SEC Championship Game.

Any candidate who openly violates the Constitution or tries to circumvent it should not only be barred from running but, if already in office, must be impeached immediately. The law must act swiftly to remove leaders who threaten the document that secures our liberties.

On a recent episode of “1819 New: The Podcast,” Isker discussed the “trash world” in which today's youths live and how the inversion of America’s founding Christian values — particularly regarding mass immigration — has made the American Dream out of reach and reshaped the culture.

The DeKalb County Sheriff’s office announced the arrest of a man after two women were found dead on December 4.

What exactly did the University of Alabama student body lose from the university's decision to end publication of Alice Magazine and Nineteen Fifty-Six magazines?

With a chance to notch its best-ranked road win in program history, No. 20 Auburn suffered a 97-68 loss against No. 2 Arizona on Saturday night in McKale Memorial Center. 

No. 9 Alabama suffered a 28-7 loss to No. 3 Georgia in the SEC Championship Game on Saturday.