An Alabama community facing pushback from residents over a proposed data center has just made the path easier for other future data center projects. The Bessemer City Council voted Tuesday night in ...

BESSEMER, Ala. (WIAT) — The Bessemer City Council voted Tuesday to move forward with a controversial project that would bring a new data center to the area. The city council voted on an ordinance that ...

The dining room still looks just like it did in 1915.

The plan to develop a $14 billion data center campus in rural Alabama that developers tout as among the “largest private investments in Alabama’s history” is moving forward. On Tuesday the Bessemer ...

Bessemer, Alabama, has landed in the national spotlight, but not for reasons residents might hope. A new report by personal finance site WalletHub ranked the city as the worst small town to live in ...

Bessemer City Schools is hosting its annual Pete Wilkins Special Olympic event celebrating students with disabilities through competition and inclusion. The event takes place on Friday, April 17, from ...

Authorities have released the name of a truck driver who was killed in a fiery crash after hitting a patch of ice on Highway 150. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Ashley ...

BESSEMER, Ala.—The reverend knew what was coming. As Tuesday’s City Council meeting began, The Rev. Thomas Thrash delivered a prayer that set the stage for the dynamic that would play out in the ...