If you want to look out over Birmingham from its most famous overlook, the Vulcan statue at Vulcan Park, be ready to climb the stairs. Visitors had been prohibited from going up the elevator or ...

A city employee was found dead Thursday in a Birmingham City Hall stairwell. The discovery was made about 11 a.m. in the stairwell between the 10th and 11th floors. Birmingham police and the ...

Overlooking the city of Birmingham is a bearded man that pays homage to Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and forge. The largest cast iron statue in the world, Vulcan is a reminder of the city's iron ...

The Vulcan statue, a tribute to Birmingham’s booming iron and steel industry with a depiction of the Roman god of fire and forge, was created for the city’s exhibition at the 1904 World’s ...