Northport City Council

It wasn't clear if the city wanted to mend fences or burn bridges Monday in a bizarre attempt to keep the Kentuck Festival of the Arts from leaving its longtime home in Northport.

Northport Mayor John Hinton is excited by what the city council has accomplished in the three years since they were first elected and even more so by what he expects is soon to come.

City leaders will consider an incentives package to draw a popular Livingston steakhouse here to Tuscaloosa County on Highway 43 in Northport.

The Northport City Council President says UPS is opening its new location in the city soon.

Mayor John Hinton received applause at the Northport City Council meeting Monday as he announced his plans to veto the sale of a community park.

It will only require approval from three elected officials to sell the Northport Community Center after the city council voted to repeal decades-old protections Monday.

An elected official in Northport is allowed to appoint her co-worker to a vacant seat on the city council if she so chooses, the Alabama Ethics Commission said Friday.

As widely expected, Northport city councilman John Hinton will become council president later this month, then become the city's mayor at the beginning of the year.

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Help may be on the way for Northport drivers suffering from sticker shock over the cost to remove "boots" from improperly parked vehicles.