U.S. Senators Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville, as well as U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, joined U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Kevin Lunday in making the USCG’s announcement Wednesday.

Aaron McGraw, one of three people charged in the Valentine’s Day slaying of 20-year-old Shaneka Renee Hicks, was booked into the Jefferson County Jail Tuesday afternoon.

The former Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) campus is becoming a new training center for the United States Coast Guard.

Severe storms dropped heavy rain, hail and a tornado on Jefferson County, Alabama. Captured on camera, the twister touched down in Trussville, damaging more than a dozen homes northeast of

Alabama officials announce that the USCG has selected a new training center in Birmingham.

The Caravan of Hope will be at AIDS Alabama on Friday, March 6 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has chosen the Birmingham-Southern College campus as a new training facility.

After their first week of training camp, the Birmingham Stallions have released guard Deonte Brown, the United Football League announced. Brown started at guard for the Stallions during the 2025 season and had been the only Alabama alumnus on Birmingham’s training-camp roster.

The U.S. Coast Guard will transform the closed college into a training center, a cost-saving move that secures the site's future and supports military aspirations.

A highway expansion project along the west Alabama Highway 43 and State Route 69 corridor is expected to reduce emergency response times once complete, according to Hale County Emergency Management Agency Director Russ Weeden.