Local Politics

Academic proficiency is climbing steadily at every elementary school in the city of Tuscaloosa, relatively stagnant in middle schools and very low in its three high schools.

A state senator is pushing to see the state of Alabama purchase the Tuscaloosa Bypass toll bridge over the Black Warrior River and stop charging drivers to use it.

A coach who was arrested at a special education center in Northport Friday was involved in an altercation with a student before police found both empty and open cans of alcohol in his desk.

The Tuscaloosa City Board of Education is weighing a budget that would spend more than $6 million over the revenue they expect to bring in, pulling from large reserves to cover the shortfall.

Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox's proposed budget for the next fiscal year would marginally increase the cost of city services and give a raise to all municipal employees, he told the city council Tuesday.

The meaning of "first responder" may soon shift in Tuscaloosa, where Mayor Walt Maddox is proposing the creation of a drone response team unlike anything Alabama has seen to date.

Strong storms caused widespread damage in Hale County and other parts of west Alabama Sunday night, which will delay the start of school there Monday.

The city of Tuscaloosa will work with a new partner to book talent at the recent-renamed Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater for the first time since the venue opened in 2011.

Northport's newest city councilman got a heaping helping of the city's politics Wednesday at a town hall meeting spent almost exclusively discussing the infamous $350 million University Beach resort project championed by his predecessor.

A former mayor Lake View, Alabama has been arrested after police allegedly found him to possess child pornography.