Birmingham AL

Daniel Walsh isn’t worried about AI taking jobs. Quite the opposite, actually. Walsh is CEO of Birmingham, Alabama-based VeroSkills, an AI-native staffing and recruiting platform for blue-collar workers. From his vantage point, Walsh sees that the AI boom won’t replace jobs, but rather create more high paying ones...

Editor’s note: This column is based on the podcast, Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast. Episode 552: Under a Highway in Birmingham, Alabama. If you look at an aerial photograph of downtown Birmingham, you’ll notice something peculiar: Interstate 59 and Interstate 20 make a sharp, inexplicable bend as they pass...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The Birmingham Police Department is asking for assistance locating a man who last made contact with a concerned family member on Thursday, Dec. 25. Police say 52-year-old Reginald Preyer is 6-foot-3 and weighs around 220 pounds. It is unknown what his last location was or what...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The Birmingham Police Department is asking the public for help locating a woman they say has been missing since September of this year. Police say 40-year-old Tiffney Breedlove has not made contact with family members since Sept. 2025. No other information was provided by authorities, like...

Shay Renee Oden organized an outreach to the needy and homeless on Tuesday, distributing food and supplies from the parking lot at A.G. Gaston Motel on a cold day to those in need, and sending a bus around to Birmingham city parks to deliver supplies. “We got MAX Transit to...

A lane shift on I-59 in Trussville is set to affect daily commutes starting the evening of Jan. 6, 2026, as part of the ongoing widening project. The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) will move traffic to the outside lanes to begin the next phase of northbound construction, weather permitting.

Crews with the Homewood Fire Department were called to a report of a fire at the Walmart Supercenter off Lakeshore Parkway Tuesday.

MONTGOMERY – The transformation of a landmark farm on I-65 in northern Jefferson County into an agricultural exhibition center has taken a major financial leap thanks to a federal grant. […] The post $11M grant to reclaim abandoned mine lands and develop Alabama Farm Center at Hallmark Farms appeared first on 256...

BESSEMER, Ala. (WBRC) - Bessemer Police are looking for a missing 20-year-old man. Robert Calvester Avery III was last seen Dec. 19 around 5 p.m. at hotel in Bessemer. His family says they have not had any contact with him since then. Avery is described as 5′7″ and weighs 140 pounds.

The Birmingham City Council will consider a proposal to temporarily pause new data center applications and hold a public hearing during its regularly scheduled meeting on January 13, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. The meeting will take place in the City Council Chambers. The proposed moratorium would last 270 days, or...