News
The news from Graysville, Cardiff, and Brookside, and from the rest of west Jefferson County: town and county business, the creek and the weather, obituaries, and the votes and hearings that change the ground here. It comes out twice a day, a morning edition and an evening one, and nothing is taken down once it has run.
That last part is the point. One headline about a rezoning or a road contract is easy to miss and easier to forget. Kept together, next to the ones that came before, they start to show which way things are moving, and they show it early enough to be at the meeting where it gets decided. Every story that has run is in the story index →, and the archive search will find any of them by a name or a place.
The lead
The monthly edition
Every edition →The morning report
Almanac →—
Coming up
Calendar →Graysville, Cardiff, Brookside
Obituaries
Around west Jefferson
The creek and the woods
The county and the state
Still worth reading
The sky over the creek
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Standing links
These stay parked here on purpose. They are the places we keep going back to when weather turns, roads shift, county business moves, or somebody needs the clean source first.
Emergency and safety
- NWS BirminghamForecasts, alerts, and radar for these three towns.
- Jefferson County SheriffMain line: (205) 325-5700
- Jefferson County EMAPreparedness, shelters, and emergency notifications. Phone: (205) 254-2039
- Brookside Fire DepartmentNon-emergency: (205) 674-8205
- Alabama 811Call before digging or utility work.
County and civic
- Jefferson County GovernmentCounty departments, services, and records.
- Jefferson County Commission meetingsAgendas, meetings, and posted packets.
- Alabama VoterViewRegistration, polling place, and ballot information.
- Graysville City HallCity Hall: (205) 674-5643
- Brookside Town HallTown Hall and general contact: (205) 674-9275
Utilities and service
- Brookside Water and GasCardiff water service runs through Brookside. Phone: (205) 674-9275
- Alabama PowerOutages and storm center. Outage line: 1-800-888-2726
- Alabama Power outage mapThe live map, for a quick check.
- AmWasteGarbage service and customer care: 1-888-449-6277
Roads and traffic
- ALGO TrafficClosures, crashes, and travel cameras, including I-22.
- ALDOTState road work, detours, and highway notices.
The watershed
- What goes inEvery permit to discharge into the creek, and the oxygen reading at Republic.
- Five Mile Creek at Republic, USGSStage and flow history from the gauge this site reads.
- Freshwater Land TrustRegional watershed and trail work.
- Five Mile Creek Greenway mapTrail map and public access points.
Local news
- North Jefferson HeraldThe closest routine community coverage.
- WBRC FOX6Breaking coverage across west and north Jefferson County.
- AL.com BirminghamMetro reporting and public safety coverage.
- Bham NowMetro development and daily local reads.
- BirminghamWatchCivic and accountability reporting.
Where these come from
Headlines here are gathered twice a day, in a morning edition and an evening one, from the outlets that cover this part of Jefferson County. We run the headline, one sentence, and the outlet's name, and every one of them links straight to the original. We do not republish anybody's article.
Weather alerts, conditions, and the creek gauge do not wait for an edition. They are read again every few hours, day and night, and every reading here carries the time it was taken.
When a photograph appears beside a headline, it is the picture the outlet itself published for sharing, loaded from that outlet's own server and credited to them. We never copy a photograph onto this site and we never take one out of the body of an article. If you publish here and you would rather we did not show your pictures at all, say so and we will turn them off for your site the same day.
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Corrections and takedowns go to the same address as everything else.