Jefferson County will focus on shutoffs for customers who owe $500 or more, or three-plus months of unpaid bills.

This is a part of the federal Project Safe Neighborhoods grant program, a nationwide effort to develop crime-fighting strategies.

The Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner’s Office is seeking the public's help in locating the family of Margaret Hall ...

After 42 years of dedicated service in law enforcement, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office deputy Eric Poole is retiring, ...

A 19-year-old charged with murder in two Jefferson County cities is back on the run after he escaped police custody just hours after he was captured in north Birmingham. The U.S. Marshal’s Gulf Coast ...

Starting in the fall of 2025, students will be allowed to transfer to a school where their race is in the majority to another in a district where they would be in the minority.

A Birmingham area man was found dead Tuesday night in east Jefferson County after a shooting. Shortly after 8:30 p.m., Jefferson County deputies responded to a report of an unresponsive person in the ...

Another travel center has been proposed along one of Alabama's newest Interstate Highways.

A court fight has moved back plans for a $14 billion data center in a small city outside Birmingham. Three people who live ...

A group of Jefferson County state senators filed a bill Tuesday that, if passed, would make major changes to the composition ...

A grand jury charged a former Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy for having and sending child pornography. Caleb Sickinger, 44 ...

The Alabama Senate quickly passed an amended version of a bill restructuring certain municipal waterworks boards into ...