Birmingham City Council President Carole Smitherman will serve as acting mayor until a new president is elected

Throughout the election season, Birmingham Weekly will be monitoring campaign activity, but to do so [...]

Sometimes there’s more news in the classifieds than the rest of the paper. Saturday’s Birmingham [...]

The Birmingham City Council will ask the Alabama State Auditor’s office to conduct a forensic [...]

Throughout the state, shoppers will have a three-day sales tax holiday later this summer, but [...]

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.

On CNN Wednesday night, Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford tried to explain how the now-viral video [...]

Jefferson County Commission President Bettye Fine Collins has asked county department heads to prepare cuts [...]

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford and his wife took a homestead exemption on their Fairfield home [...]

A quorum of the Birmingham City Council met today behind closed doors, an apparent violation [...]

In a special-called meeting today, the Birmingham City Council is scheduled to consider spending as much as $15,000 to cater the funeral of Councilor Miriam Witherspoon who died Tuesday.

When she spoke about “access,” it wasn’t the trite political jargon for having clout at City Hall. Instead, she was speaking of things most people never notice, like whether there are curb cuts where the sidewalks end.

A resolution before the Birmingham City Council Tuesday would require groups and companies seeking city [...]

Citizens of Birmingham concerned about excessive government spending, among other things, exercised their rights to assemble peacefully on Wednesday, and joined groups in dozens of other cities in a “Tea Party” rally. Birmingham Weekly has video from the event.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has informed Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford that he is suspended from participating in federal contracts and similar federally assisted activities.

Council President Carole Smitherman wants a council member on BJCC or else no city money for a dome.

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford has restricted city department heads from cooperating with the city council, a move councilors perceive as a retaliation for not rubber stamping the mayor\’92s agenda.

On Tuesday the Jefferson County Commission will consider a resolution that would take the county a step closer to raising rates and creating new fees that would raise revenue for the debt-ridden sewer system.

Bettye Fine Collins threatened to have Birmingham Weekly columnist Kyle Whitmire escorted from the building after Whitmire asked her if she stood by a statement she made a week earlier.

Photographic evidence of the Weekly’s journey to Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of America’s 44th president, Barack Obama.