Cottonwood News

An 87,000 square foot shopping center called "Westway" is slated to be built on the northwest corner of Highway 84 and John D. Odom Road.

Annette Tew knows what it's like to get walnuts for Christmas, and little else. Her father was a sharecropper in Echo.

Some Dothan Planning Commissioners said it was among the best projects that has come before the board in 20 years in terms of reaching out to neighbors to protect their quality of life.

Houston County Sheriff Andy Hughes said 30-year-old Gene Chandler Elliott Jr., of Cottonwood also faces felony theft charges.

The third report of a law enforcement impersonation in the area in the last month left a Cottonwood woman a little scared Tuesday night, but unharmed.

A Dothan man is behind bars after a high-speed pursuit from Slocomb to near Cottonwood.

The Houston County Sheriff's Office arrested a Dothan man late Friday night after a high-speed pursuit from Slocomb to near Cottonwood.

Improvements are needed for Houston County Schools. The examples are numerous. "Family and Consumer Science building at Cottonwood, you could stick your hand through the wall with what the termites have done," ...

Now is the time to prepare for spring gardening. The Wiregrass Master Gardner Association is holding a shrub sale tomorrow.

A Cottonwood High School sophomore is one of just 17 students selected from around the world to study polar bears in the Arctic Tundra.

A Houston County judge sentenced a Cottonwood man to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty Monday to an assault leaving a Florida man severely injured.

Dee Dawkins, president of the board of directors of S.E. AL CARES, which provides recreational equestrian services for trouble youth at Camp Ride and Real near Banks, worked with one of the clients in an effort ...

The following were booked into the Houston County Jail from Sept.8 - Sept. 21 on felony charges.

A Cottonwood man will be sentenced in December for threatening to drive a car bomb into the Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan.

A Montgomery-based development company is bringing Publix to Dothan along with two new shopping centers, according to the developer's Web site.

Junior Miss set for Saturday The 2009 Houston County Junior Miss program is set for Saturday, Sept.

Reverend Kenneth Glasgow of the ordinary people society here in Dothan spent 14 years in prison on drug related charges.

The clamor of a crane loading a train boxcar nearly drowns out Bill Taylor as he preaches near the old Dixie Depot in downtown Dothan.

A Cottonwood man was arrested Saturday and charged with an alleged attempted rape which occured Thursday in a wooded area in Cottonwood.

Since Tropical Storm Fay hit, powerful wind and heavy rain has been reeking havoc in the Wiregrass.