Columbia News

The heart of a small town is in its stomach. There's a few things that can make a small town become a real community instead of just being a few houses clumped together in a rural area.

May 22 - GMAC Insurance says one in six drivers on U.S. roadways would fail a written driver's test.

The Dothan/Houston County Emergency Management Agency in conjunction with Southern Nuclear Company will be conducting maintenance testing of the Farley Nuclear Plant Prompt Notification System on May 27-29. The public address systems will be activated and the sirens will sound for 10 seconds during several intervals in Ashford, Gordon, and Columbia ...

Dusty Owens got his first set of hearing aids when he was 18 years old. He suddenly entered a world so loud the simplest noises hurt his ears.

Dothan police recently arrested a Georgia man on charges he attempted to shoot a woman.

UPDATED at 8:30 pm: Press Release From Sheriff's Office - Houston County Sheriff's Office Sheriff Andy Hughes Press Release On April 9, 2009 at approximately 11:35 a.m. the Houston County Sheriff's Office responded to Houston County High School Columbia.

The smell of Clorox permeated William Shealey's home on Aberdeen Road. The den was stripped clean, down to the cement slab.

Residents across southeast Alabama are drying out and warily watching rising water levels in streams and rivers after a weekend of heavy rain that flooded roads and in some areas forced people from their homes.

The National Weather Service continues its flood warning for the Chattahoochee River at the W.F. George Lock & Dam until Monday afternoon or until the warning is canceled.

A bill to expand voting options for military and overseas voters made it through its first legislative committee Wednesday with no major changes.

Consumers straining to meet household expenses are taking longer and longer to make their car payments, increasing the risk they'll default on those loans and potentially making it harder and more expensive for everyone else to get car loans.

A Columbia man pleaded guilty to a felony sexual abuse charge in Henry County Circuit Court earlier this week.

The Chattahoochee River has 6 reservoirs that it feeds, making up some 82,434 surface acres of freshwater access in the state of Alabama.

A pair of roosters challenge each other in a training demonstration at an Arley, Ala., farm in this file photo.

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COLUMBIA: Multiple fire units are on the scene of Hancock and Washington Street in Columbia.

A fire in Columbia kept Houston County firefighters busy Thursday afternoon. The blaze broke out in a scrap yard on the corner of Hancock and Washington streets.

The following person has been arrested by the Dothan Police Department and are charged with a felony crime.