Mobile and Baldwin County News
As the U.S. House of Representatives prepared to vote on impeachment, Lower Alabama Congressman Bradley Byrne said he would oppose the effort, arguing the Constitution reserves impeachment for extreme cases.…
Veterans Day and what it marks Veterans Day traces its origin to Nov. 11, 1918 — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, when the armistice…
Money is pouring into Republican campaigns for Alabama’s 1st Congressional District and the U.S. Senate, according to third-quarter federal filings reviewed by a Mobile-based political strategist. The filings, covering the…
Federal trade officials excluded Airbus jet parts bound for the Mobile assembly plant from new tariffs on European goods, a win local and federal officials pushed hard for, though the…
Facing overwhelming public opposition to tolls, the Eastern Shore Metropolitan Planning Organization voted to drop the Mobile River Bridge project from its transportation plan, prompting Gov. Kay Ivey to declare…
ALDOT Director John Cooper is defending a proposed tolling plan for the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway, including a $6 one-way charge and discounted commuter passes, as the agency also…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded two INFRA grants to fund major infrastructure projects in Alabama. The larger…
MOBILE, Ala. — Resistance to the toll plan behind the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project keeps broadening, with Mobile’s legislative delegation sending Gov. Kay Ivey a letter this week…
ALDOT is defending its pursuit of federal money for the Mobile River Bridge project after criticism from U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne, as Mobile City Councilman Levon Manzie asks Gov. Kay…
A look at why a proposed $3 to $6 toll on the I-10 Bayway has drawn little resistance from state leaders, and how Alabama's north-south political divide shapes decisions affecting…