Tag: VESTAVIA HILLS

Liberty Park Middle School in Vestavia is hosting the Scholastic Book Fair this week; the sale features three books that include sensitive topics like LGBTQ+ relationships, child abuse, bullying, alcoholism, and self-harm.

A new promotional video released this week launched the sixth annual “Thank Alabama Teachers Month.”

Michael Vercher has won the runoff election for the Vestavia Hills City Council Place 3 against Brian Demarco.

Karl Julian is running for Vestavia Hills City Council Place 2, but voters looking for information on what he thinks of those seeking to protect women's spaces and sports from men or those who seek to protect young children from radical gender ideology, those Julian once called "assholes," won't find it easily on his social media page.

The first person to qualify for the Vestavia Hills City Council this year was Councilwoman Kimberly Cook. With a brief statement and photos on Facebook Cook declared, "After much prayer and reflection, I have decided to run for a third term."

Vestavia Hills city staff is feverishly working to have a striping error fixed after repairs on U.S. 31.

27-year-old Trump supporter Derek Chen of Vestavia announced his candidacy for State Auditor, an open seat in 2026.

Vestavia Hills, Alabama's Miss America Abbie Stockard is bold about her Christian faith, and that story is up nationally on Fox News.

Miss Alabama 2024 has been selected: Abbie Stockard of Vestavia Hills, Miss Hoover.

A Vestavia Hills church group stuck in Israel following the deadly terrorist attack by Hamas last weekend arrived back safely in Alabama on Tuesday. 

The Homewood City Council moved forward in the process of creating a referendum to change the city’s model of government during its meeting on Monday night.

The Homewood City Council is considering calling for a referendum so residents can consider remodeling their city government. 

In 2022, former Navy seal and law enforcement officer Jared Hudson narrowly lost to the incumbent Democrat Mark Pettway in the election for Jefferson County Sheriff. Now, Hudson is encouraging conservatives to get out and vote in a special election later this month that will determine which party holds the majority in the Jefferson County Commission.

On July 18, Vestavia, Mountain Brook, Homewood and Hoover residents will select the newest member of the Jefferson County Commission in a special election. Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Mike Bolin says he’s the man for the job.

Last year was Birmingham’s most violent year since the early 1990s, and several sources have ranked the city one of the most unsafe in the country. Meanwhile, Birmingham suburbs like Vestavia Hills and Mountian Brook had considerably low crime rates in 2022, and Vestavia even ranked among the safest places to live in the United States.

The shooter in the 2022 Vestavia Hills church shooting has pled guilty to three counts of capital murder and will serve the rest of his life behind bars.

A former Vestavia Hills High School student was caught squatting in dormitories at Stanford University after pretending to be a student for over a year.

Alabama is home to 565 public high schools, each ranging from under 400 students to almost 3,000.

The Vestavia Hills Police Department (VHPD) is asking for the public’s help locating Earl Sharron Johnson.

Churches across the state are looking to heighten their security in light of the recent shooting in Vestavia Hills

New details are emerging regarding the deadly church shooting that took place at St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills.