Mobile and Baldwin County News
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Mobile, Alabama is remembering Weston Clark Fryatt, a senior software engineer at The SSI Group and former NASA contributor, who died November 22, 2013 at age 47. He is survived…
Austal USA is branching into yet another new area of shipbuilding: uncrewed ocean vehicles. The Mobile shipyard has reached a partnership with Saildrone, the California-based autonomous vessel maker, to manufacture…
MOBILE, Ala. — A large alligator recently filmed swimming across the lake at Mobile’s Municipal Park is a sure sign of the time of year: alligator mating season, which runs…
Alabama’s oyster harvesting season began Monday, with harvesters launching their boats near the bridge to Dauphin Island early in the morning for the start of what officials expect to be…
Residents along Dog River in Mobile have been treated to an unusual sight this season: a breeding herd of eight to 10 manatees that has settled into the waterway and…
E. O. Wilson spent formative years in Mobile, where a fascination with ants and South Alabama’s natural world preceded a landmark scientific career.
Every summer, the docks of Dauphin Island fill with anglers, spectators and the clatter of weigh-station scales as the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo gets underway at the mouth of…