Iron Hill Folk School promotes small gatherings among not-yet-friends with the Meet Your Neighbors program.

The city is assessing old contaminated industrial sites to request federal funds to help with cleanup and redevelopment.

The retail development would include a Publix Supermarket.

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The Jefferson County Commission transferred the animal control license to a new GBHS site off Lakeshore Parkway.

The BAA has opened a gallery on 20th Street at Third Avenue North to showcase local artists.

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In a guest post, local journalist Solomon Crenshaw Jr. describes emotional marches on Saturday and the bloody past they evoked.

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin and about a dozen local officials are pushing for neighborhood revitalization laws to be passed by the Alabama Legislature.

Council weighs whether costs outweigh benefits.

The new Birmingham city initiative will reach out to boys during a high-risk time in their lives.

The BJCC took in the basketball games because of continuing storm damage in Mississippi; Willie Mays Tournament moved from Rickwood Field because of freezing temps.

Mountain Brook City Council met Monday evening.

The egg sales company that grew into an international financial services company is planning to expand its Perimeter Park South location.

Local officials are starting to get ready in case ice coats the area this weekend.

An Alpha Phi Alpha memorial at Kelly Ingram Park was one of several commemorations and service events held Monday in Martin Luther King Jr.’s memory.

The commission also OK’d incentives discussed earlier for ACIPCO to convert its furnaces to electric-fired furnaces.

The company is making an investment of $793.1 million in its North Birmingham operation.

The Picklr locations in Vestavia Hills and Huntsville will develop the Shock's minor league program in Alabama statewide.

Actor Stephen Kunken, a member of KultureCity’s board, was at the courthouse Thursday for a vote on the plans for the old Powell Steam Plant property.

The park would include training for those with sensory disabilities, a museum, amphitheater, sensory park and resource center.

Jones, former U.S. senator, focused on kitchen table issues in the launch of his campaign for the Democratic nomination as governor.

UAB elevated Alex Mortensen to the head coaching job and Samford brought John Grass back to the state.

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High winds and small tornadoes caused damage in unincorporated parts of northern Jefferson County.

‘Win now’ mentality opens vacancies at the top of Birmingham’s sports landscape.

Scotty Prince says his dream died for lack of a motion.

The mayor said he will ask the Birmingham City Council to commit $1 million to help feed Birmingham families.

They also OK’d a tax abatement to lure an industrial supplier.

The ruling allows Jefferson County to continue with next year’s election under current district maps.

The change brings Fitch’s rating in line with other credit rating agencies.

The county contends the commission districts redrawn in 2021 were not based on race.

John White didn’t simply want to survive the second open-heart surgery of his life. His desire, as it has been throughout his 21 years, was to thrive.

Residents heard from both candidates for mayor and five candidates seeking two seats on the City Council.

Homewood ends rezoning for old police station after steakhouse-pocket park plan withdrawn; mayor, councilman regret losing project they say met public needs and fiscal goals.

The candidate says she knows what it is to be among the ‘least of them’ and wants to help fix the communities.

The Birmingham Youth and Young Adult Fellowship Choir, which earned the golden buzzer from judge Simon Cowell to send it to the live telecasts for the “America’s Got Talent” competition show, dropped ...

Rice said his goal as mayor would be to make Ensley and other Birmingham neighborhoods as safe and comfortable as Highland Park.

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Eight thousand first responders from nearly 80 countries are participating in the 10-day sports competition that begins Friday at the BJCC.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell organized a small business roundtable Tuesday at Innovation Depot on the impact of tariffs ordered by the Trump administration.

Wayne Rogers, spokesman for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department, was a 17-year-old bank teller when his branch was robbed.

Residents of the East Lake Community became reacquainted with an old friend Monday morning as the library branch at Oporto-Madrid Boulevard and Division Avenue reopened after being closed for about fo...

Lashunda Scales, current Jefferson County commissioner and former Birmingham City councilor, said Tuesday she is running for mayor to turn around the trend of Birmingham being passed over for other ci...

Making improvements to Rickwood will help pull in even higher-profile events, supports say.

Jefferson County will pick up vegetative storm debris in unincorporated areas.