Jefferson County

It's called Birmingham’s longest running event, and it's returning this Saturday for another year of celebration.

A new online business has given eco-friendly fashion and thrifting a new life in the Iron City. The Clothing Library is a clothing rental subscription service that focuses on making fashion more sustainable.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham will move from Conference USA to the American Athletic Conference. UAB officials said this shift will allow the school to gain more exposure, better finance its athletic programs and renew historic sports rivalries.

Rickwood Field is the country's oldest professional ballpark and former home of the Birmingham Barons and Black Barons. Now it will host two Major League teams on June 20, 2024.

Officials in an Alabama county accused in a new lawsuit of illegal redistricting say the districts were legally redrawn to reflect population changes. A federal lawsuit filed Friday by the NAACP Legal Defense accuses the Jefferson County Commission of gerrymandering districts to pack Black voters into two districts and deprives Black voters of greater political power in surrounding districts.

The Jefferson County School System says it was the target of a ransomware attack over Spring Break. A news release from Superintendent Dr. Walter B. Gonsoulin says, "Our district’s technology team took immediate steps to stop the attack and then notified state and local authorities."

RESTORE is a partnership with the City of Birmingham, Jefferson County Family Court, Jefferson County Family Resource Center and Jefferson County Juvenile Detention Center. The program is expected to serve 120 juveniles over a 12–month period.

Jefferson County official say they’re seeing an alarming number of opioid overdose deaths. The dozens of fatalities happened only one month into 2023.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s most populous county will open its courthouses for absentee voting on two Saturdays because of the heavy turnout…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Former UConn basketball player Stanley Robinson has died of unknown causes at a family residence in his Birmingham, Alabama. He…