Mobile and Baldwin County News
County Democrats planned a kickoff reception with neighboring party chairs from three states, a retired union leader weighed a run for treasurer, and a Bishop State student announced for school…
A bill to outlaw commercial gill net fishing in Alabama's coastal waters passed the Senate in a form the Bayou La Batre legislator said the House would kill, reopening a…
District Judges Charlie McKnight and Bob Sherling scheduled campaign kickoffs, while former Circuit Judge and District Attorney Chris Galanos explained, candidly, why he would not challenge for a circuit seat.
Michelle Mayberry, a 24-year state revenue department manager and the daughter of a late Mobile circuit judge, announced a Republican campaign for license commissioner on a platform of 'citizen service.'
As Mobile continues to grow, so does the conversation about whether the city’s aging infrastructure can keep up, and one perennial topic has resurfaced: traffic trouble in the George Wallace…
Gov. Bob Riley sent the Legislature a bill extending the two-year college system's ban on double dipping to every state agency, university and school system, and barring lawmakers from contracting…
A Mobile-area Realtor has written an open letter to U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, pushing back on the presidential candidate’s early skepticism about the Air Force’s decision to award a massive…
A Mobile Republican women's club installed new leadership, city planners opened neighborhood meetings on a downtown master plan, and a young minister launched a campaign for the state school board…
A former Prichard councilman entered the school board race, a former county commissioner passed, and courthouse offices from revenue to license commissioner drew a scramble of prospects as the filing…
Mobile learned it had won the Air Force tanker contract in a scramble of stock tickers, cell phone calls and hastily bought sandwiches, and the political consequences began almost immediately.