In 2025, AL.com’s “Beyond the Violence” project, in partnership with The Birmingham Times, examines how Birmingham can become safer, healthier and happier. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin today ...

Downtown Birmingham viewed from Red Mountain. A mass shooting in Birmingham last September helped lead to a statewide ban on glock switches, which turn semi-automatic firearms into effectively ...

A second teen has been charged in Birmingham for being in illegal possession of a Glock switch. The Birmingham Police Department reports Special Enforcement Team arrested the 17-year-old boy Sunday, ...

This story was produced in collaboration with Birmingham Watch, a nonprofit news site. Support them here. The hustle and bustle of the Five Points South neighborhood belies its recent history, ...