During a recent health inspection, one Birmingham food mart was dinged for rat poop, food marked three months past due and for not having thermometers inside the coolers and freezers. Multiple ...

For the first time in a decade, Birmingham ended 2025 with less than 100 homicides. There were 88 homicides in 2025, down from 152 in 2024 when the city’s homicide tally broke a record set in 1933.

The new Birmingham regional water board this week fired a well-known local lobbyist - but kept another lobbyist based in Montgomery. The contract for the Jones Group, headed by lobbyist Greg Jones was ...

In 2025, AL.com’s “Beyond the Violence” project, in partnership with The Birmingham Times, examines how Birmingham can become safer, healthier and happier. As the grandson of iconic civil rights ...

The number of homicides in Birmingham for the first three months of 2025 are down nearly 50 percent over the same time period in 2024 — a year that saw the city’s number of violent deaths reach record ...

Deck the halls. Light the fireplace. Decorate the tree. Shake out your favorite Christmas sweater. The holiday season hasn’t officially started yet, but it’s never too early to start celebrating — or ...

This is another installment in AL.com's “Beyond the Violence" series, in partnership with The Birmingham Times. Rope. Dynamite. Guns. And more guns. In 1933, Birmingham, then a young city founded on ...

I just finished listening to a podcast on how Chip and Joanna Gaines built a business empire and the extraordinary impact it had on Waco, Texas, their hometown. We can do the same for Birmingham. When ...

In 2025, AL.com’s “Beyond the Violence” project, in partnership with The Birmingham Times, examines how Birmingham can become safer, healthier and happier. Two years ago, Amiriya Rowser was lying in a ...

When a band from Alabama starts touting a song with the word “Birmingham” in the title, that immediately grabs our attention. And we’re all ears when it comes to “Birmingham Steel,” a song set for ...