The answer was yes. Birmingham had no skate park—residents had to drive to Tuscaloosa. Downtown lacked a dog park, quality ...

We’re just days away from 2026, a time when many people set goals for the new year. But some find it hard to stick to those ...

More than 100 officers were deployed for the Dec. 31, 2025, Operation Close Out, a holiday crime suppression initiative aimed ...

The city of Hueytown is going to open up a 400+ acre nature preserve in the first quarter of 2026. Called the West Rock Mountain Nature Preserve, the highly anticipated green space has been years in ...

Three boats were engulfed by the 50m breach in the Chemistry area of Whitchurch, Shropshire, after the 200-year-old canal ...

The eyes of the world have been on the West Midlands canal network after an embankment collapsed, dragging boats into a giant ...

You may have heard one fun fact that plenty of Brummies like to brag about is how our city has more canals than Venice. And this fact is definitely true, Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) network is ...

As Birmingham is named the UK’s leading high-potential destination for data-driven healthcare, the pressure on Life Science start-ups and HealthTech scale-ups has never b ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cold Stone Creamery®, one of the nation's premier ice cream creameries, revealed today its strategic plans to expand its presence in Birmingham, ...

The business of shipping goods around the world has suffered shock after shock since 2000, culminating in the effective closure of the Red Sea and Suez Canal two years ago. Don’t say it too loud, but ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced today that Ben Walsh, the Mayor of Syracuse since 2018, has been appointed as the Director of the New York State Canal Corporation.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A Birmingham church says its congregation was impacted by the shooting that left two dead and nine injured Saturday at Brown University. During a sermon Sunday morning, ...