Get Your Weekend Started With Good News Stories From Our Alabama NewsCenter Partners!

Start your weekend with a look at upcoming events and a look back at this week’s Good News stories from across Alabama!  From fall football to fairs & festivals, from restoring faith to Restoration Academy, and from Paralympics to porch swings, there is plenty to make you Alabama proud in the latest from our friends at Alabama NewsCenter.

Football preview: Crimson Tide tries to avoid a three-peat while Auburn is tested by the Aggies

Can’t Miss Alabama has it all: crafts, cleanup, fairs and festivals

Restoring faith in Birmingham decades after deadly church bombing

Restoration Academy teacher’s passion for excellence makes him an Alabama Bright Light

How UAB coach Bill Clark approaches a football season with no football games

9/11 Pentagon survivor tells Alabama audience about God’s goodness in the little things

UAB partners with IAG to help public service officers safely interact with people with special needs

Freshwater Land Trust to hold 8th Annual Land Aid event; Pete Yorn to headline

Bringing murderball to the masses: Former Birmingham Judge Gary Pate doing commentary for NBC at Paralympics

Consultants rank Alabama among top business-friendly states

Alabama’s Jim Aycock making waves in Nashville with his ‘Off the Hook’ songwriters show

Valley Creek cleanup removes 32 tons of trash from Jefferson County waterway

Four Oak Designs elevates the porch swing with Alabama Maker style

First US Bank starts construction on Pumphouse Plaza in Birmingham

Ongoing drought taking toll on Alabama Power lake levels

Federal mandates drive Greene County plant’s move from coal to gas

Transit startup Proterra plans electric bus with 350-mile range

Test driving the 2017 Genesis G90 from Hyundai’s new luxe brand

New home sales in Alabama hold steady in July compared to 2015

Dothan year-to-date home sales through August up 9 percent over 2015

Tuscaloosa August home sales up significantly from August 2015

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