MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Alabama's attorney general is looking into voting in Uniontown, where the recent election raised questions after there were more registered voters than the town's listed ...

Sewage overflows in Uniontown — onto private property, under homes and into creeks — as it has for over a decade. Consequently, the city of Uniontown and its waterworks and sewer board have been ...

Uniontown, Alabama has raised funds to mend its long deficient wastewater system. But residents are concerned about their level of involvement in the decision-making. Members of Black Belt Citizens ...

At a municipal sprayfield in Uniontown, Alabama, a spigot blasts what it supposed to be fully treated wastewater into the air. The water is meant to seep down into the ground, or evaporate or be ...

Uniontown is a town in Perry County, Alabama, with a population of 1,969. According to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 8.90% of residents identify as white, 90.90% as Black or ...

“My dream,” said Ben Eaton, one of the roughly 3,000 people who live in the working-class, mostly African-American hamlet of Uniontown, Alabama, “was to grow up, get married, build my own home, and ...

MOBILE, Ala. — The American Civil Liberties Union today asked a federal court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed against four people who voiced opposition to a coal ash landfill in their small town ...

“They put dumps in Black and Brown communities, poor communities, that they think can’t fight back,’’ said Esther Calhoun, an independent activist and former president of Black Belt Citizens Fighting ...

The Arrowhead landfill in Uniontown, Ala., has drawn complaints from residents since it opened in 2007, and more since it started accepting coal ash in 2008. Photo courtesy of Michael D. Smith ...