County considers incentives for development to address food desert in Kimberly area
The retail development would include a Publix Supermarket.
Virginia Martin
BW Recommends | September 20, 2026
News and features you might have missed this week from around the region.
PARCA survey highlights education concerns
Funding for schools was the biggest budget concern cited in the survey, released as Birmingham City Schools approves a budget with a more-than-10% increase.
Birmingham council approves tax abatement for $82M Railroad Park-area hotel
It also made an agreement with REV to study improvements to the Rainbow Viaduct.
BW Recommends | September 13, 2026
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First Ave N at 35th Street bridge closed temporarily
MAX has shifted a stop nearby and will pick up about a block away.
2027 JeffCo budget includes money for City Walk, commissioners’ discretionary funds
The $997.3 million budget is slightly less than this year’s.
Birmingham City Council approves $1.1 million affordable housing deal at former Hill School
Houston-based Park Street Homes will construct 31 houses on Third Street North. The council also set a hearing on the Southern Area Framework Plan for Oct. 20 and approved repairs to the elevators of the Birmingham Central Library.
BW Recommends | September 6, 2026
News and features you might have missed this week from around the region.
AL.com opinion writer picks an unusual target: His own newsroom
If you wrote a bad Yelp review of your employer’s product, you’d probably get fired. But newsrooms are weird.