This week marks 100 years since Father James Coyle was murdered in broad daylight in downtown Birmingham hours after he secretly married an interracial couple. He's remembered for his faith and courage during a time of religious intolerance, racism and xenophobia. Read more.
Huntsville is now the largest city in Alabama, surpassing Birmingham by 14,273 residents, according to new information from the U.S. Census Bureau. However, the Birmingham-Hoover metro area and Jefferson County still reign supreme in the state, topping the next-largest areas by hundreds of thousands of residents each. Read more.
Gov. Kay Ivey issued an emergency order Friday to give hospitals and other facilities more flexibility in treating the rapidly growing number of COVID-19 patients overwhelming Alabama’s health care system. Read more.
William Bell wants to reclaim his legacy.
Lashunda Scales was inspired to run for government office after watching politicians and becoming disenchanted with the way they did business.
Birmingham mayoral candidate Chris Woods could star in the reboot of the 2000 ABC situation comedy “Malcomb in the Middle.”
Mayor Randall Woodfin has a simple request for Birmingham: “Stick with me.”
One day after the Senate passed a $1 billion infrastructure bill, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge visited Birmingham Wednesday. Read more.
Linda Roper Richardson, BBOE D7 Linda Roper Richardson filed papers to run for the Birmingham Board of Education, District 7 seat but said told BirminghamWatch that she has withdrawn from the race.
A total of eight people have qualified to run for mayor of Birmingham in the Aug. 24 elections. Four of the candidates have drawn far less publicity than the rest, though in combined experience, several of them have decades of service as community activists. Cerissa Brown has never stood on the sidelines. She has been
