Mobile and Baldwin County News
Public health news and updates for Mobile, Baldwin County, and South Alabama communities.
The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) is urging hunters and anglers to practice social distancing as the state’s spring turkey season opens Saturday, March 21, amid the…
All Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Mobile closed at 3 p.m. on Monday, March 16, 2020, and will remain shuttered until at least April 3 in response to the…
CHATOM, Ala. — Washington County Public Schools shut their doors Friday after a wave of flu and strep throat cases left classrooms across the rural county short on students and…
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. — Health officials say this year’s influenza season arrived earlier than usual in Mobile County, and they expect case numbers to keep rising in the weeks ahead.…
MOBILE, Ala. — As the opioid crisis continues to grip communities across Alabama, a growing number of recovery advocates are focusing their efforts on a less visible casualty of addiction:…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has spoken publicly for the first time about the death of his wife, Bridgette, telling reporters in Montgomery that she died by suicide after years…
Born near Mobile, William Crawford Gorgas helped turn new knowledge about mosquitoes into large-scale yellow fever prevention work.
Mobile’s worst yellow fever outbreak, in 1853, tested the city and highlighted the work of the Can’t Get Away Club.
Alabamians looking for health coverage can now shop online: the federal Affordable Care Act marketplace opened for business Oct. 1, and early federal figures suggest plans in Alabama will cost…
Four Mobile-area medical professionals are back home after weeks of humanitarian work in Haiti following the catastrophic magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck near Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010. Randy, Philip, Kelly…