Bessemer City Schools is on track to start its school year under state oversight. Weeks after receiving an ultimatum from state officials, board members voted unanimously Monday evening to approve a ...

BESSEMER, Ala. --The school year was over, but classes were in session on a recent June morning at Jonesboro Elementary School in Bessemer. In one room, a small class of third graders practiced ...

Storms swept across central Alabama on Monday afternoon, June 1, causing downed trees and power lines, power outages and ...

From Feb. 8 to March 29, 2021, around 5,800 workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, will vote on whether or not to unionize with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store ...

BESSEMER, Ala.—Do not move forward without more information. That’s the advice representatives of the Center for Biological Diversity have provided to Bessemer City Council members ahead of a Tuesday ...

Amazon has beaten back a historic effort by workers to form a collective bargaining unit in a warehouse complex in Bessemer, Alabama, with about two-thirds of ballots cast in the union election voting ...

On a rainy Saturday afternoon in early February, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union held a rally in a grassy lot a five-minute drive from Amazon.com Inc.’s fulfillment center in Bessemer ...

Amazon.com Inc. always had the upper hand in its high-profile battle with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union over its fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama. It had the deeper pockets, ...