Mobile and Baldwin County News
News from Orange Beach in Baldwin County, Alabama.
Orange Beach developer Peter Gounares announced another Republican primary challenge for Alabama’s First Congressional District, pledging a focus on jobs and on resolving lingering damage from the Gulf oil spill.
The Crescent Theater in downtown Mobile will devote a full week to one of the most talked-about literary documentaries in recent memory, screening Hey, Boo from June 10 through June…
Crawfish season has arrived on the Gulf Coast, and a string of bars and restaurants across Mobile and Baldwin counties are again running free or all-you-can-eat crawfish nights to mark…
As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill continued to threaten Alabama’s coastline in the summer of 2010, a grassroots effort called Sea Stand began recruiting musicians, comedians, and other performers to…
Class action attorney Rick Kuykendall, a Mobile native, drew national notice for his work on Deepwater Horizon claims, as federal prosecutors opened a criminal investigation and BP agreed to fund…
Fifty days into the Gulf disaster, the cap fitted over the failed blowout preventer was recovering more than 10,000 barrels a day, but engineers were still venting oil into the…
The Business Council of Alabama endorsed U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner for re-election while the Independence Caucus announced its support for challenger Peter Gounares ahead of the June 1 primary.
Peter Gounares carried his challenge to U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner across five counties, Bradley Byrne called a news conference in Orange Beach, and Luther Strange lined up Mobile money.
Alabama's senior senator broke with the Federal Reserve chairman he once supported, arguing that Ben Bernanke helped inflate the housing bubble that wrecked Gulf Coast home values and bank balance…
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby wrote to NOAA in December 2009 arguing that federal red snapper limits were punishing Alabama's charter and recreational fishermen even as the stock appeared to be…