Mobile and Baldwin County News
The Prichard City Council moved to amend its electronic bingo ordinance, arguing that machines are still bingo. Mobile County's district attorney said the law says otherwise.
A Washington senator told NPR she had never seen anyone in Alabama build anything. Mobile's mayor, a county commissioner and a candidate for governor lined up to correct her, and…
With campaign finance reports due Jan. 31, the candidates for governor spent December begging, cajoling and raffling lunches, each trying to make the bottom line look like momentum.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions used a Senate floor speech to answer a colleague's slight against Alabama workers and to argue that the Pentagon had rewritten the aerial tanker bid rules…
A survey of political insiders across Mobile and Baldwin counties turned up a long list of up-and-coming names, from young council members to legislators eyeing higher office.
Mobile native Dale Peterson entered the Republican race for Alabama agriculture commissioner, joining a field that included John McMillan of Stockton in a contest with a distinct South Alabama flavor.
Hutchens Elementary principal William Foster confirmed a run for the Mobile County school board's District 5 seat, saying he would turn his board salary into scholarships and field trip money…
The public break between gubernatorial front-runner Artur Davis and Democratic power broker Joe Reed raised a question veteran Alabama strategists were happy to answer: is the old machine still the…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ron Sparks endorsed drawing $100 million a year for ten years from Alabama's oil and gas trust fund to rebuild highways, reviving a long-running fight over the…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim James drew country star John Rich to a Montgomery fundraiser, while his campaign staked out a charter school position built on a Mobile elementary school's success.