Sep. 21—The "heart of downtown Decatur" — the corner of Moulton Street and Second Avenue Southeast — will soon be the site of an 80-room Fairfield Inn by Marriott, Mayor Tab Bowling said Monday. The ...

NEW ORLEANS — Immigrant workers recruited from South America and the Dominican Republic after Hurricane Katrina filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a prominent New Orleans hotelier, saying they are ...

Decatur may be lagging behind East Limestone when it comes to luring investors to build single-family homes and behind Huntsville and Madison when it comes to building high-end apartments, but one ...

NEW ORLEANS — Employers aren’t obligated to cover the moving costs and other expenses incurred by many immigrant workers, a federal appeals court has ruled in a case against a New Orleans hotelier ...

On Aug. 16, 2006, 82 immigrants stood handcuffed in front of a New Orleans federal courthouse. They weren’t on trial, but rather launching a suit against their employer, Decatur Hotels, and its owner, ...

Decatur’s commission recently approved increasing the city’s hotel/motel tax from 7 to 8 percent, effective Oct. 1. This is an update of the hotel/motel tax ordinance from 1988, when the Holiday Inn ...