Birmingham

As temperatures are expected to fall below freezing, the City of Birmingham, along with Jimmie Hale Mission, will open its warming station from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.

Ask older members if they ever watched the TV show Barney Miller? The comedy cop show won an Emmy award back in 1982. That’s the same year Alabama Public Radio first went on the air. We’re observing forty years of serving our listeners by re-airing the best of our stories. That includes this one from 2014. APR collaborated with the University of Alabama’s Center for Public Television for two years on a series called “Alabama, INC." We spotlighted local business leaders including the head of Birmingham’s McWane Science Center. Here’s that story from the APR archives.

Birmingham, Mobile and Montgomery are three of the twenty five most stressed cities in the United States. WalletHub separated four areas of stress into…

One-third of Alabama counties are vulnerable to COVID-19 due to low vaccination rates. Birmingham, Huntsville and Montgomery are hotspots for potential…

The U.S. wheelchair rugby team is training at Lakeshore’s facility in Birmingham. They are preparing for the Paralympics in Tokyo. The team is practicing…

The University of Alabama at Birmingham played its last game at Legion Field on Saturday, leaving behind the legendary stadium known as the "Football…

The Birmingham City Council has approved a citywide mask ordinance that will extend through May 24th. This goes beyond Governor Kay Ivey’s order which is…

Admirers of Dr. Martin Luther King, junior have the opportunity to snag a unique piece of memorabilia. An auction house is offering pages of an old jail…

Cities across the state are canceling Christmas parades due to the spread of COVID-19. Birmingham and Anniston both canceled festivities last week after…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Birmingham’s regional chamber of commerce is losing its first Black chief executive after only five months on the job. The…