Tag: City Council

By Erica Wight The Birmingham Times The Birmingham Promise Initiative, launched this summer to build pathways into quality jobs for Birmingham City School (BCS) students, came...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  More than two months after Mayor Randall Woodfin presented his fiscal 2020 budget and three weeks after the fiscal year...

By Ameera Steward The Birmingham Times TeAndria Ellis remembers when her brother was killed seven years ago at the age of 22. The teens who killed...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday passed a temporary moratorium on the opening of new self-storage facilities in downtown. The council...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  The Birmingham City Council will consider limiting the number of new self-storage facilities in downtown because they take up a...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times After fierce neighborhood opposition, the Jefferson County Department of Health (JCDH) will not issue a permit for Sherman Industries, LLC...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times The Birmingham police department has received a $700,000 federal grant to purchase 276 body cameras. “We’ve been having some...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin announced on Tuesday that he is opposed to a concrete company relocating to Five Points West...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times City of Birmingham employees can have up to four weeks of paid leave if they donate a kidney and up...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times Local community officers and leaders will not have to write a report from the upcoming Neighborhoods USA (NUSA) Conference in...