After less than two hours of deliberation a federal jury in Tuscaloosa found Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford guilty on all counts. Under Alabama law, Langford immediately ceases to be mayor and City C

Alabama’s Environmental Management Commission has asked an administrative law judge to hold further hearings on a wastewater discharge permit near an intake for a Birmingham Water Works facility. The

Testimony about bond deals and the minutia of derivatives visibly exhausted jurors Wednesday morning. However, in the afternoon, the public corruption trial of Mayor Larry Langford turned toward some

Black Warrior Riverkeeper founder David Whiteside has been doing some work north of us, it seems. He recently founded a new citizen-based environmental protection organization called Tennessee Riverke

Each year the Alabama chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors gives out several Excellence Awards for a number of different categories dealing with building construction. [caption id="at

Located on 1,108 acres formerly owned by U.S. Steel (and graciously sold to the Red Mountain Park Commission for a bargain-basement price), Red Mountain Park will be one of Birmingham’s great treasure

If you live in Marlborough, Mass., or Israel, you need to have more plants in your diet. This has nothing to do with your health, at least not as far as your diet is concerned, but more to do with red

A bill that would make permanent a tax deduction for landowners who donate land for conservation has received wide bipartisan support in the U.S. House of Representatives. H.R. 1831, the Conservation

If you’ve stayed in a hotel in the past decade or so, you’ve probably seen a placard over the sink or on the towel rack instructing you, the guest, to hang up your towel if you’re fine with using i

In an effort to fight mercury pollution, local light bulb supply shop Light Bulb Depot is offering to recycle fluorescent bulbs for their customers. The new fluorescent bulbs contain elemental mercury