Anna Curry has set out to to take on Mt. Kilimanjaro, and you can track her progress.

Due to lax enforcement, violations of the Clean Water Act have risen across the nation in recent years.

ESPN is reporting that NCAA has cleared University of Alabama stars Julio Jones and Mark [...]

When Birmingham City Schools began the school year two weeks ago, incoming students weren’t the [...]

It’s 6 a.m. on a Monday. Do you know where your bingo is?
Monday morning, about [...]

Is this town really so full of corruption that one could devote an entire month [...]

Pascal Caputo of the Caputo Report has put together a list of candidates for the [...]

Local environmental group Black Warrior Riverkeeper has suffered a legal setback in its attempt to stop a coal mine from being opened near the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River, according to a report today by Kent Faulk on al.com.

The Alabama Beverage Control Board is requiring stores to remove Cycles Gladiator wine from their [...]

In “River of Riches,” an article in the August issue of Smithsonian Magazine, writer Michelle [...]

Sen.Jeff Sessions went on the offensive this morning against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
In interviews leading [...]

Paul Hemphill, journalist and author, has died. He was 73.
A child of Birmingham and son [...]

Early Tuesday morning Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was rear-ended at a red light on Ensley Avenue [...]

Bottletree got stiffed by City Stages, but you can help by coming out to drink Thursday at 4 p.m. and eat lunch Friday after 11 a.m.

The DOJ has approved the City of Birmingham’s request to move the City Council and Board of Education elections to Aug. 25. The elections were originally set for Oct. 13. The city requested the change so Birmingham could comply with the Help America Vote Act, which requires six weeks between elections and runoffs (previous Birmingham elections had allowed only three weeks) to allow for the arrival and counting of overseas and absentee ballots.

Bobby Humphryes has volunteered to take a 20% cut in his County Commissioner salary as an act of solidarity with the county’s hourly workers, who have had their workweek cut back from 40 hours to 32. However, Jefferson County Attorney Jeff Sewell has advised Humphryes that any voluntary pay cut may, by law, have to be permanent, lasting even into following terms.

The bad news keeps rolling on for City Stages. Last week, just days before the [...]

A audit conducted by the Alabama Public Examiner’s Office has found that Jefferson County Commissioner [...]

So we’re perusing Cracked.com (one of the Weekly’s favorite Web sites), reading the very funny [...]

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that inmates, including those on death row, do not have [...]