Elected officials in Northport hired an Indiana firm to develop a 100-room hotel and a 100,000 square-foot indoor sports facility on the bank of the Black Warrior River Monday.
The very first site work on the 77-acre $350 million lagoon resort planned for Northport is meant to begin soon, their top elected official said Thursday.
Elected officials in Northport will vote today on whether to enter into a relatively small public-private partnership to draw a "new-to-market National Coffee Tenant" to Lurleen Wallace Boulevard.
A public-private partnership came to fruition in Northport Thursday morning, where city leaders cut the ribbon on a new outdoor fitness court designed for everyone 14 and up.
Elected officials and residents in Northport gathered Monday to celebrate reopening a community center that seemed doomed for demolition less than a year ago.
Christy Bobo, the former president pro tempore of the Northport City Council, has assumed the role after the shock Thursday resignation of embattled president Jeff Hogg.
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.