Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Mardi Gras celebrations, parades, and traditions in Mobile and South Alabama.
Mayor Spiro Cheriogotis told nine mystic societies in person that Mobile's $300 million Regions Arena will not be finished for the 2027 Carnival season, pushing the opening to spring after…
Amtrak’s Mardi Gras Gulf Coast train drew 150,000 riders in its first year — nearly four times the projection — as officials weigh a permanent Mobile station.
For the past three years, ALDOT and Mobile city engineers have run a joint traffic monitoring center during Mardi Gras season, adjusting signals in real time and powering the city's…
Amtrak's Gulf Coast Mardi Gras Service drew 150,000 riders and $5.2 million in revenue in its first year, far surpassing projections, even as Mobile's downtown platform still awaits a permanent…
Gulf Shores approved a new Saturday Mardi Gras parade run by the Pleasure Island Revelers, but Mayor Robert Craft says the traditional Fat Tuesday parade could stick around too.
Mobile’s St. Louis Day tradition opens a window onto French colonial history, Carnival folklore and the city’s earliest documented mystic society.
A crowd packed the Alabama Music Box in downtown Mobile for the venue’s Joe Cain Day celebration, a rock-and-roll night featuring a reunited L.F. Knighton and a full bill of…
RV owners hoping to park in the heart of Mobile’s Mardi Gras action will have their chances drawn by lottery next week. The Mobile Civic Center will hold its drawing…
A carefully sourced look at Saint-Domingue, the Haitian Revolution, French refugee ties to Alabama and what the record does—and does not—show about Mobile.