I am the eighth generation here,” says Ahmed Ali Mohammed Elhofni, standing amid pale stone dust in his family-owned ...

Alabaster will hold its municipal election on Aug. 26 to determine who of the two mayoral and three Ward 1 council candidates will represent the city. Most of the council candidates ran uncontested ...

Multiple areas in Alabaster will be without water this evening due to an outage, according to the Alabaster Water Board.

Transportation, green spaces, and the long-awaited expansion of I-65 are top priorities for Alabaster Mayor Scott Brakefield in 2024. In his Q&A with the Lede this week, Brakefield detailed his plans ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

Researchers discovered opium biomarkers in a 2,500-year-old alabaster vase using nondestructive techniques. The findings provide chemical proof that ancient Egyptians likely consumed opium ...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government’s archaeological events that aim at ...

Its sand-colored concrete walls loom over Temple Street like an urban butte, and tons of marble, bronze and limestone gleam within. Yet, in the end, there’s no earthly element in the new Cathedral of ...

When a play begins from a place of having a talking goat sitting in a lawn chair, drinking Red Bull and spreading biting, Yoda-esque wisdom around, the bar for what is believable and real shifts. That ...