Joseph Brown remembers taking the call from Nick Saban. It was early in 2025, and the legendary Alabama football coach, now “retired” to life as a TV commentator, wanted to talk about Scott Cochran. The area manager of Alabama Power’s Western Division, Brown is also the current chair of the board of trustees at the University of West Alabama (UWA). […]

Five innovative startups are joining the spring 2025 class of founders selected to take part in the Bronze Valley Investment Accelerator (BVIA). Each company will receive a $100,000 investment as part of an intensive 12-week program designed to help them accelerate growth, access capital, and build relationships in Birmingham’s thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. Each of the founders […]

The Sloss Tech conference has earned growing attention in technology, innovation and entrepreneurial circles across the nation.

Taking full advantage of Alabama’s natural resources and recreational assets was high on the priority list for leaders with Innovate Alabama.

The Innovate Alabama board of directors met to hear a report on the organization’s activities and approve plans for 2023 and beyond.

Powell School has occupied the southwest corner of Sixth Avenue and 24th Street North in downtown Birmingham since 1887.

The project in Selma entailed installation of approximately 50 miles of fiber connected to more than 1,000 power poles.

“I would talk to Martin and tell him that Birmingham was where it was at. We had been doing a thing that was the epitome of nonviolence”

The committee focuses on building the highly skilled workforce Alabama needs to meet current and future challenges and opportunities.

Operational hours for Birmingham Xpress will be Monday through Friday from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The store offerings highlight the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, which encompasses more than 135 locations across 15 states, including eight Alabama cities.

Sloss Furnaces has been one of Birmingham’s most visible landmarks for generations.

Birmingham-based Bronze Valley recently added two new companies to its investment portfolio of startups. The addition of Stimulus and Pruuvn brings to 17 the number of investments by Bronze Valley since its launch in 2017. “Both of these companies are geared to the present and future of business in a changing landscape,” said Neill S. Wright, president and CEO of Bronze […]

TechBirmingham will host its seventh annual CyberNow Summit on May 11-13. After two years as a virtual event due to the pandemic, the cybersecurity conference will take place both in person at the Red Mountain Theater Arts Campus and, for those who prefer to attend virtually, at cybernowsummit.com. Deon Gordon “While the virtual conferences of the last two years […]

Seventy-five years after breaking the “color barrier” as major league baseball’s first black player, Jackie Robinson remains at least passingly familiar to most Americans. In a career that lasted from 1947 through 1956 – all with the Brooklyn Dodgers – Robinson was unquestionably great. He appeared in six All-Star games, won the National League’s Rookie […]

The fifth class of the Bronze Valley Accelerator is underway with the recent announcement of the five startups selected to take part in the spring 2022 program. The companies were recruited from across the United States and represent a wide variety of industries and verticals. The Bronze Valley Accelerator was launched in 2020 as a partnership of Bronze […]

Birmingham’s Southern Research is building an $84 million facility that will enhance its research capabilities, create nearly 550 jobs and double the organization’s economic impact to $300 million per year. The new building will be at the center of efforts to improve public health outcomes across Alabama, said Dr. Josh Carpenter, president and CEO of Southern Research. […]

In 1870 a group of wealthy and well-connected men met in Montgomery to purchase shares in a newly-formed real estate concern.

In the summer of 1882, a man on horseback rode into Jones Valley, bound for the new city of Birmingham, which had been founded just more than a decade before. He entered the valley from the northeast, through Red Gap, a natural break in the Red Mountain Formation that contained the vast stores of iron […]

Routine monitoring and inspections to protect the integrity of Alabama Power‘s 85,000 miles of power delivery infrastructure; enhanced security at the generating plants and other critical sites, and for facilities and equipment in Alabama Power’s 45,000 square-mile service area; increased effectiveness and efficiency in responding to, and recovering from, severe weather and other emergencies. These and […]

Montgomery has long embraced its place in American history, including its pivotal role as the cradle of the civil rights movement

On Aug. 30, the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce will open the doors of The Lab on Dexter, a leading-edge entrepreneurial learning and innovation facility. Located on Montgomery’s historic Dexter Avenue, The Lab will provide a collaborative learning environment for entrepreneurs, with the goal of creating a sustainable social and tech innovation ecosystem.   “Montgomery continues to cultivate […]

“This was a massive system,” James Lowery declared. “It provided an efficient, accessible, reliable means of linking the mines and quarries around Birmingham to the furnaces and the furnaces to the factories.” Lowery was speaking of the Birmingham Mineral Railroad (BMRR), by far the largest of the internal network of rail lines that transported the […]

How does an organization celebrate a century of community service? If that organization is the Junior League of Birmingham (JLB), it’s done by kicking off that 100th year with the culmination of the Community of Lights Centennial Campaign. When the five-year campaign concludes on May 6, it will have raised more than $1.25 million for the One Place Metro […]