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MONOPOLY has unveiled a new version of the classic board game that features Birmingham, making it the first time that an authorized version of the game has been based in Alabama.
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Birmingham’s inaugural Poet Laureate, Salaam Green, is hosting a public reading of her new chapbook, “Once Upon a Magic City” in honor of National Poetry Month on Thursday, April 18 at 5:30 p.m. at the Birmingham Public Library.
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The Ways and Means Education Committee in the Alabama has voted on a measure which would raise the sales tax on transactions on the internet. If passed by the full legislature and signed by Governor Kay Ivey, the online sales tax would more closely match the fees charged to conventional “brick and mortar” retailers.
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Students left out in the cold by the closing of Birmingham Southern College may have an alternative, one State to the west.
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Officials at Birmingham-Southern College, a private liberal arts college in Alabama, will close at the end of May after running into financial difficulties and being unable to secure a financial lifeline from the state.
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Birmingham city leaders have unveiled a new art exhibit that stems from the city’s StrongHer campaign, an initiative that aims to honor the unsung women who live, work, volunteer or attend school in the Magic City.
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Students at Hoover High School are hoping to win the national level of a science, technology, engineering and mathematics contest. The campus is already the state victor of the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow STEM Competition, where schools from across the country compete at both state and national levels to win Samsung technology for their schools.
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Mexico is almost certain to elect its first female president in June — both leading candidates are women. Outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to seal a land deal involving an Alabama company that could saddle his replacement with a court battle that could cost the country billions of dollars.
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A program giving girls a running start is coming back to Huntsville for its second year. Girls on the Run (GOTR) is a national non-profit that puts running-based programs at schools and community locations. The initiative has sessions at three Alabama locations around the state: South Central Alabama, North Alabama and Birmingham Metro area.
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Freezing rain and sleet fell across portions of the Southeast into Tuesday morning. Winter storm warnings were in effect for Lawrence, Limestone and Madison counties in Alabama. Poweroutage.com reports just over six thousand (UPDATED) Alabama homes and businesses without power this morning.