This is an opinion column. Lowndes County is a place of haunting beauty, where you can see stars at night and endless loblolly pines by day. It’ll make your heart hurt, if you have one. But now ...

Fetid water pools outside a mobile home in Hayneville in Lowndes County, Ala., in 2022. For the last 14 years, when it rains in Lowndes County, Alabama, contaminated standing water builds up around ...

The Trump administration has rescinded a historic settlement designed to improve wastewater treatment services for residents in majority-Black communities in Lowndes County, Alabama, where inadequate ...

The Justice Department said Friday it would terminate a landmark civil rights settlement to rectify long-standing sanitation problems for residents in Lowndes County, Alabama, saying the Biden-era ...

In his quest to end “diversity, equity and inclusion,” President Donald Trump has killed plans to address raw sewage running into yards in Alabama’s Black Belt. “It’s not DEI, it’s just common decency ...

For the last 14 years, when it rains in Lowndes County, Alabama, contaminated standing water builds up around Annye Burke’s home. When the septic tank breaks down, raw sewage backs up into her toilet, ...

For the last 14 years, when it rains in Lowndes County, Alabama, contaminated standing water builds up around Annye Burke’s home. When the septic tank breaks down, raw sewage backs up into her toilet, ...