Buildings: Birmingham for at least two decades has sought an alternative to its aging city jail, with various solutions ...

Birmingham homicides are down 27 percent so far in 2025, fueled in part by a 23-day stretch with no homicides in the city. As of Monday morning, the city had 16 homicides in the first 2 ½ months of ...

Mayor Randall L. Woodfin updated the Birmingham City Council on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, regarding the progress of ...

The Birmingham Police Department's Special Enforcement Team made 75 arrests from March 11 to March 15, 2025. This initiative ...

Knife crime in the West Midlands Police area falls ... Hundreds of people fall silent at services in Birmingham where prayers are said for the schoolboy. Mark Brindley speaks after the killing ...

A Labour MP has told PoliticsHome she is frightened by the rise of knife crime after her nephew was stabbed on a bus in Birmingham last month.

An MP whose nephew was stabbed in lawless Birmingham for being in the wrong postcode area has admitted she fears for her ...

The public can ask questions and make suggestions about the city’s efforts to dampen violence during a community feedback ...

During a meeting this week, Birmingham council leader John Cotton described knife crime as a “national crisis”. “Frankly, our young people deserve better,” he told the full council meeting.

He is the latest child to lose their life on Birmingham's streets as the city struggles to stem the tide of knife crime. New statistics ... that is a rate of 52 crimes for every 10,000 people ...