Alabama officials say there has been progress on a $31 million project to fix widespread sewage overflows in the struggling Black Belt city of Uniontown, but in the meantime the sewage, and the ...

Residents of Uniontown, Alabama, have lived with the Arrowhead landfill, which is twice the size of New York’s Central Park, have protested shipments of toxic coal ash—the residual byproduct of ...

that Attorney General Luther Strange's office said Thursday that he's looking into unusual voter registration, but had no further comment. Uniontown has a population of 1,775, according to the 2010 ...

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 “My ...

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The giant Arrowhead Landfill sits on the outskirts of Uniontown — a majority Black, rural town in Perry County with high poverty ...

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 ...

“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 ...