Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, while acknowledging there are good teachers and administrators working hard for students in difficult circumstances, said Tuesday that any teachers not committed to ...

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin got a shoutout this week from Nick Cannon for the city’s more than 50 percent drop in homicides for the first half of 2025. The comedian, actor, host and producer on ...

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said he has a story to share with the city and beyond. So, he wrote a book. Woodfin took to social media today to announce his forthcoming book, “Son of Birmingham.” ...

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin handled an AR-15 rifle and a Micro Draco handgun in his report to the city council this morning, promising to ‘turn up the heat’ on criminals after a weekend homicide ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin released a statement via Facebook Friday morning regarding four homicides happening over the course of three days in Birmingham. Tragically, ...

Trump’s praise of the National Rifle Association at a weekend event in Texas was “sickening,” Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said during a Sunday interview that also touched on gun violence in the ...

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin announced the birth of his daughter, Joy Charity-Faye Woodfin, on social media on Saturday.

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin on Tuesday threatened to report parents of students habitually skipping school without an excuse to the Jefferson County District Attorney for prosecution for truancy, ...

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 ...

Birmingham’s mayor wants to know: Where do people love to eat in the Magic City? As it turns out, Randall Woodfin only had to ask once to get more than a thousand responses to his question on social ...

There are free college programs in all 50 states, but Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin believes more cities working to expand college access should look at his effort in Alabama. In 2020, Woodfin, who ...

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin faces rare major opposition from the city council today as some members threaten to give his $554.8 million budget a thumbs down vote. At least three councilors, ...