The UK government said it will appoint commissioners to take over the Birmingham City’s council, a dramatic move that underscores the perilous state of local authority finances after years of ...

No end for Birmingham's rubbish apocalypse: Six months on the city's streets are still buried under mounds of bags of garbage as strike continues By NOOR QURASHI ...

Birmingham City Council is ending talks to solve the bins strike crisis and staff are set to go. The authority announced today, July 9, that it was shutting down negotiations with the Unite union. It ...

The Birmingham City Council voted on Tuesday to table a resolution that would have guaranteed their share of public funding to keep the local, private liberal arts college from closing its doors.

Birmingham City Council approves $1 deal to assume $1.26 billion in assets and debt from water utility, but the deal is far from done as lawsuits and challenges loom.

The number of Birmingham City Council staff earning more than £100,000 has tripled in three years - with 57 people at the struggling council now earning six-figure salaries. That's a big leap from ...

The former chief executive of Birmingham City Council, Deborah Cadman, received just shy of £500,000 during the year she quit the beleaguered authority amid its chaotic bankruptcy, we can reveal ...

Birmingham housing campaigner Sharon Thompson has announced she is quitting local politics after 11 years, including seven at the heart of the city council leadership. Coun Thompson, currently the ...

Birmingham City Council House [Photo: G-Man] Birmingham council is Europe’s largest local authority, serving 1.14 million people. It issued a section 114 (s.114) notice on September 5, saying it ...

Birmingham City Council has developed a 25-year City of Nature plan - a long-term strategy to reconnect people with nature, as well as improve biodiversity, and tackle climate and health inequalities.

'Skint' Birmingham City Council netted £2.5m after selling a string of assets at auction today, Thursday, July 10. All seven lots comprising three areas of land, two three-bed homes, and two ...

The City of Birmingham filed a federal lawsuit on May 6, 2025, against Gov. Kay Ivey and the State of Alabama, seeking a temporary restraining order to stop Ivey from signing a bill into law that ...