HARDY

Lainey Wilson leads the 2023 Country Music Association Awards nominations for a second year in a row.

It’ll be a new experience for Garth Brooks when he steps onto the stage Thursday at the Academy of Country Music Awards — it’ll be his first time hosting an awards show.

Country artist HARDY leads the Academy of Country Music Awards nominees with seven including song of the year for “Wait in the Truck,” featuring Lainey Wilson.

Louisiana-native Lainey Wilson is no overnight success as she heads into the Country Music Association Awards as the leading nominee.

The Country Music Association Awards will open this year's show with a tribute to the late country queen Loretta Lynn.

A tour bus carrying country music singer and songwriter Hardy and three others was involved in a crash that injured everyone on board.

BRELAND, a 27-year-old Jersey native, has taken over as the king of country collabs in Nashville, building his brand of cross country.

A year after New Year’s Day passed without a Rose Parade due to the coronavirus pandemic, the floral spectacle celebrating the arrival of 2022 marched on despite a new surge of infections.

HOUSTON – A security guard at an apartment complex in northwest Houston was shot in the armpit Monday, police said. Police said the shooting happened at the crescent at Cityview Apartments on Langwick near Hardy around 1:47 a.m. According to investigators, the person who pulled the trigger fled the scene. Police said no motive for the shooting has been determined.

In electronic media, 12 percent of broadcast journalists are black, similar to the national population figure of 13 percent. It's not only insulting to me, but to black journalists around the country.A failure to include journalists of many different backgrounds means missing stories. Hardy, who just left a job in Greenville, S.C., said that without black journalists there, stories about gentrified neighborhoods would have gone untold. The sweep of national protests following the death of George Floyd has news leaders talking to their staffs about how the story affects them. An internal outcry over the essay wasn't apparent until a number of black journalists tweeted that Cotton's argument in favor of using federal troops to quell violence made them feel unsafe, and others throughout the newsroom supported them.