Mobile and Baldwin County News
News from Mobile County, Alabama and its communities.
For 20 years Mobile's mayor-council government has required five of seven votes to pass most measures. Officials past and present disagreed sharply over whether the super majority built consensus or…
Mobile mayoral candidate Bess Rich proposed adopting CitiStat, a performance-management program pioneered in Baltimore, to track city spending and save money.
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby applauded EADS North America's decision to make Mobile the site of its KC-330 advanced tanker production facility, capping a five-month search.
The Mobile firefighters' union backed Bess Rich for mayor ahead of the Aug. 23 city election, the second endorsement from an organized city employee group for the former councilwoman's campaign.
Local lawmakers said Mobile's Brookley Field was about to be named the winner of EADS North America's nationwide search for a tanker program site, an aerospace prize starting with 200…
Dr. Robert Shipp, chairman of marine sciences at the University of South Alabama, was appointed to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, giving Alabama a seat at the table…
State Sen. Vivian Figures declined to endorse in Mobile's 2005 mayoral race, citing friendships with two candidates, while state GOP vice chairman Jerry Lathan came out for Ann Bedsole.
State Rep. Jamie Ison, a former director for the deaf and blind, was training twice a day to join blind mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer on a late-summer climb of Mount Kilimanjaro,…
Mobile County District Judge George Hardesty was set to address the Mobile County Young Republicans on judicial developments, with a circuit judgeship coming open after 40 years on the bench.
Former state Sen. Ann Bedsole opened her main mayoral campaign headquarters in June 2005, pairing praise for Mobile's revitalization with a call for lower taxes and a leaner city payroll.