The Birmingham City Council approved the city’s annual purchase of 1,200 University of Alabama at Birmingham football tickets during its meeting Tuesday. Councilor Hunter Williams said the $200,000 ...

Myers said she hears three concerns from residents repeatedly – retail development, grocery stores and support for small businesses.

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Fitch took its rating of Jefferson County sewer warrants from BBB to BBB+. According to Fitch’s Rating Commentary, the increase to the BBB+ rating reflects the sewer system’s low operating cost burden ...

A federal court has denied Jefferson County’s request to delay an order that it redraw its County Commission district map, a map the judge overturned last week as being too heavily based on race.

The Jefferson County Commission on Thursday is set to authorize an agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior to renew funding for 13 continuous-record stream flow gauging stations. The county ...

On Sunday, Railroad Park Foundation — the organization that operates the park and provides free exercise and cooking classes there — will celebrate the 19-acre green space’s 15 th birthday with a ...

The city started offering microtransit rideshare services in 2019. Throughout that time, Birmingham leaders have contracted with Via Transportation Inc. for the work. The council’s vote Tuesday ...

That’s the answer I sent to our longtime web host earlier this week when asked about our domain renewal. It’s one of the easiest decisions I’ve been tasked with making in this role. The other was to ...

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