Olivia McMurrey

Lakeshore Data Center, LLC existed for about a year and was involved in land sales that increased the data center site’s price by $66 million.

Most water utilities aren't prepared for cyberattacks. Staff from across the state met with cybersecurity experts for two days of presentations and simulation exercises.

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit the city of Birmingham filed challenging a state law that reorganized the metro area’s water utility and its board of directors last year.

The Central Alabama Water Board of Directors voted Friday to recommend changing its rate structure to a flat fee based on usage.

Defendants in a lawsuit have agreed to turn over documents related to three sales transactions that increased the property’s price.

A flurry of legal activity during the past two weeks includes two new lawsuits related to the controversial project and the consolidation of three existing suits.

In the 1960s, Gwendolyn Sanders Gamble never thought a facility like the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Education and Visitor Center would be built. But subconsciously, she hoped for it.

As automated license plate readers, commonly known as Flock cameras, proliferate across Alabama, criticism has followed. Here's an overview of the debate.

As developers build large data centers across Alabama, residents have been asking government officials lots of questions. And they're often skeptical of the responses.

Writer Abbey Crain's infertility treatment was affected when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are legally children. Her story is part of a new film.

After a family died in a house fire this spring, the city is ramping up promotion of a 12-year-old program that provides and installs free smoke alarms.

The suit argued the state unlawfully seized control of Birmingham Water Works, a public utility it claimed the city's residents own.

The Great Southeast Pollinator Census, which is happening this weekend, will give people across the Southeast a chance to help with pollinator conservation.

The center seeks to apply lessons learned from the 1963 bombing of the church and to create community in Birmingham's Civil Rights District.

The judge granted a request to skip a decision about temporarily halting the data center's construction and move on to whether the project should end permanently. The next hearing is set for March.

The board of directors for Alabama’s largest water utility hired a Michigan-based IT company to help with its cybersecurity efforts.

Attacks on the utility sector are on the rise, and financially stressed water utilities are at higher risk, a cybersecurity expert said. CAW slashed its budget and staff earlier this year.

The utility's CEO said senior managers misunderstood when the current contract ended, and there wasn't time to request proposals from companies other than the one he recommended to the board.

Whitman, Alabama features everyday Alabamians reciting Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” While the film debuted in 2017, airport leaders said it’s a perfect way to celebrate the U.S.'s 250th birthday.

The suit aims to halt construction of a hyperscale data center in the Oxmoor Valley neighborhood. Testimony this week detailed the city’s permitting of the project, which plaintiffs say was illegal.