Northport City Council

The city of Northport is looking for potential partners with proposed projects to fund with four facade improvement grants of up to $100,000 each.

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.

Elected officials in Northport hired an Indiana firm to develop a 100-room hotel and a 100,000 square-foot indoor sports facility on the bank of the Black Warrior River Monday.

The very first site work on the 77-acre $350 million lagoon resort planned for Northport is meant to begin soon, their top elected official said Thursday.

Elected officials in Northport will vote today on whether to enter into a relatively small public-private partnership to draw a "new-to-market National Coffee Tenant" to Lurleen Wallace Boulevard.

A public-private partnership came to fruition in Northport Thursday morning, where city leaders cut the ribbon on a new outdoor fitness court designed for everyone 14 and up.

Elected officials and residents in Northport gathered Monday to celebrate reopening a community center that seemed doomed for demolition less than a year ago.

A divided Northport City Council voted 3-1 to appoint a local businessman to fill the District 5 seat vacated by council president Jeff Hogg last month.

Christy Bobo, the former president pro tempore of the Northport City Council, has assumed the role after the shock Thursday resignation of embattled president Jeff Hogg.

Northport City Council President Jeff Hogg has resigned from office after eight years, he announced in a letter distributed Thursday afternoon.