Mobile Council Approves Stadium Lights Over Objections, Tables Judge Selection Plan
The Mobile City Council approved a contested Hank Aaron Stadium lighting contract and tabled a plan for a citizens' judge selection committee.
Two Monday Morning Wrecks Snarl Traffic on Routes Into Mobile
A vehicle fire near Satsuma and an overturned tractor-trailer on the Cochrane-Africatown Bridge tangled Monday morning commutes into Mobile.
Environmental and Neighborhood Groups Fault Stimpson Over Mobile Planning Commission Overhaul
A coalition of environmental and historic-neighborhood advocates criticized Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson in July 2014 for replacing half of the Planning Commission, calling the reshaped panel pro-industry.
Robert Battles Finally Wins a Mobile Election After Decades of Political Defeats
Longtime Mobile political activist Robert Battles won a seat on the Mobile County School Board after decades of election losses.
Three Finalist Routes for I-10 Mobile River Bridge Stir Waterfront Worry
State highway planners narrowed 14 possible crossings of the Mobile River to just three, none of them the northern route favored by preservationists, reviving a fight that echoed the 1980s…
Mobile-Born Writer Albert Murray Honored in New York Magazine’s ‘9 Over 90’ Feature
A Mobile native who has spent more than half a century shaping American letters and jazz criticism from New York City is getting fresh recognition this month. The Oct. 4…
New Book Revives 1930s Mobile Radio Broadcasts That Told Alabama’s History
A newly published book, “Alabama History on the Air,” is bringing a forgotten piece of Mobile broadcasting history back into print, drawing on more than five dozen radio scripts that…
The Clotilda’s Secret Voyage and the Founding of Mobile’s Africatown
One of the more remarkable chapters in Mobile County’s history begins with a bet. In 1860, Mobile shipyard owner Timothy Meaher wagered $100,000 with friends that he could defy the…
The Story Behind Africatown: How the Clotilda’s 1860 Voyage Founded a Mobile Community
Nearly two centuries after the United States banned the importation of enslaved people, a Mobile-area businessman financed one final, illegal voyage across the Atlantic — and the community founded by…
Highway Officials Cool to ‘Northern Route’ as Answer to Wallace Tunnel Gridlock
State and federal highway officials told supporters of a Cochrane-Africatown bridge route that it likely could not meet the purpose of relieving Interstate 10 congestion at the Wallace Tunnel.