Mobile and Baldwin County News
During its annual retreat at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, the Mobile County school board gave Superintendent Martha Peek a stellar performance review, citing a rising graduation rate.
The Baldwin County school board appointed two assistant superintendents in August 2014, unwinding the executive-principal model and returning the system to a more traditional organization.
Satsuma City Schools opened the 2014-15 year with a calm first morning, an enrollment of 1,300 and a $6 million capital campaign, as the young district began its third year…
After a councilman called the shoreline's post-holiday condition atrocious, a Gulf Shores beach recycling pilot pulled 3,000 pounds of aluminum from the sand in roughly three weeks.
For the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Mobile Bay, the Fort Morgan Museum assembled a special collection of artifacts, several never before shown to the public, focusing on the…
With the final interchange complete, Gov. Robert Bentley helped open the Baldwin Beach Express to Interstate 10 in August 2014, giving beach traffic a new route and easing pressure on…
Ahead of the 2014-15 year, the Baldwin County school board revised its meals payment policy so children short on money would not be denied breakfast or lunch, while requiring schools…
After nine years leading Daphne Utilities, General Manager Rob McElroy resigned in August 2014 to join Algae Systems, the company turning the city's wastewater into biofuel on Mobile Bay.
Prichard and Mobile reinstated daytime and nighttime curfews for minors this week as the new school year got underway across Mobile County schools.
A Mobile murder case remains stalled after a judge ruled the defendant will continue psychiatric treatment rather than stand trial for the 2010 killing.