BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An international extreme sports competition is coming to downtown Birmingham after city leaders approved up to $1.5 million in lodging tax incentives to secure a stop on the 2026 FISE World Series tour. The Birmingham City Council passed a resolution authorizing Mayor Randall Woodfin to execute an agreement with Hurricane Group, the…

HOMEWOOD, Ala. — Two people were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide at Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital in Homewood on Saturday night, according to police. The Homewood Police Department said officers and fire personnel responded to a report of possible shots fired at Brookwood Baptist Medical Center just before 9:30 p.m. Saturday. When they arrived,…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Red Mountain Park, the vast urban green space built atop Birmingham’s former iron ore mines, has opened a new pavilion with permanent, universally accessible restrooms and water fountains at its main Frankfurt Drive entrance. The 1,800-square-foot covered pavilion is designed to make visits more comfortable and safer, especially for people with disabilities,…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala — The Birmingham Museum of Art is asking the public to help solve a decades-old mystery: what happened to the artwork from a 1963 solo exhibition by Corietta Mitchell, the first Black artist to have a one-woman show at the museum during segregation. As the museum marks its 75th anniversary this year, staff…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala — Breeze Airways, a fast-growing low-cost carrier, will launch two new nonstop destinations from Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport this summer, giving local travelers direct flights to South Florida and North Carolina’s Research Triangle for the first time in several years. Beginning July 3, Breeze will operate twice-weekly nonstop service from Birmingham to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama’s push to rebrand the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” is the latest example of President Donald Trump and his allies using symbolic gestures to literally rewrite the map in his image, even as critics warn the country will be living with the consequences long after the headlines fade.…