David Russell is running for mayor in the Aug. 26, 2025, Birmingham municipal election. (Photo by Solomon Crenshaw Jr.) Your support helps us grow and sustain a newsroom for the City Built to Change ...

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Andrew Waits, of Carr, Riggs and Ingram LLC, presents the 2024 audit to the City of Birmingham Regional Water Works board. (Photo by Olivia McMurrey) ...

City of Birmingham Regional Water Works board members Jeff Brumlow, Bill Morris and David Standridge, lawyer James Porter II and board Vice Chairman Phillip Wiedmeyer. (Photo by Olivia McMurrey) ...

The Jefferson County Commission is set to increase funding for two groups that help develop small businesses.

A member of the Birmingham Youth and Young Adult Fellowship Choir belts it out during a mini-performance for the Jefferson County Commission. (Photo by Solomon Crenshaw Jr.) ...

The water works board canceled agreements with a nonprofit organization that helped local firms, especially those owned by women and minorities, qualify to bid on contracts for providing goods and ...

The Alabama Initiative for Independent Journalism will temporarily suspend publication of BirminghamWatch at the end of July 2025 until early fall if it is unable to secure enough bridge funding to ...

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 ...