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Chris Blankenship

Coverage of Chris Blankenship from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.

32 stories

Fried fish and hushpuppies cooking at an outdoor Daphne fish fry as guests gather under tents and reporters wait with cameras

Politics

At Daphne Fish Fry, Tuberville Says Guard Isn’t the First Step on Mobile Crime, Previews Conecuh Storm Visit

At a Baldwin County GOP Daphne fish fry, Tommy Tuberville said there is 'no reason to jump the gun' on sending the National Guard…

Oct 14, 2026 Daphne

Illustration for the news story: Mobile Council Holds $9 Million Brookley by the Bay Grant for a Week at First Night Meeting in 12 Years

Government

Mobile Approves $9 Million Brookley by the Bay Grant as Councilman Questions City’s $5 Million Share

Oct 5, 2026 Mobile

Illustration for the news story: Chris Blankenship Comes Home to Lead Coastal Alabama Partnership After Nine Years as State Conservation Chief

Government

Chris Blankenship Comes Home to Lead Coastal Alabama Partnership After Nine Years as State Conservation Chief

Oct 2, 2026 Dauphin Island

Business

Summerdale Recycling Plant, Steel Mill and Marsh Projects Earn Gulf Coast Stewardship Awards

Oct 1, 2026 Summerdale

Government

National Hunting and Fishing Day: Ivey Urges Alabamians to Explore a Million Acres of Public Land

Sep 26, 2026 Gulf Shores

Mobile

The 17-Year-Old Who Set Out to Filter Mobile Bay, One Pier at a Time

Sep 22, 2026

Community

A Gas Rig 60 Miles Offshore Becomes Two Reefs — and a $1.5 Million Donation

Sep 19, 2026 Baldwin County

Illustration for the news story: South Alabama Creates the Blankenship Scholars Program to Fund About 10 Future Conservation Enforcement Officers a Year

Education

South Alabama Creates the Blankenship Scholars Program to Fund About 10 Future Conservation Enforcement Officers a Year

Sep 19, 2026 Mobile

Politics

A Dauphin Island Charter Boat Kid Retires as Alabama’s Conservation Commissioner; Ben Stimpson Takes Over Oct. 1

Sep 16, 2026 Dauphin Island

Things to Do

Fort Morgan Trail Extension Opens, Pushing Gulf State Park Toward 40 Miles of Trails

Sep 12, 2026 Fort Morgan

Environment

Crews Pull 42 Abandoned Boats and Nearly 175 Tons of Debris From Alabama’s Coastal Waters

Sep 5, 2026 Bon Secour

Politics

Ivey Announces More Than $52 Million in GoMESA Grants for 21 Coastal Alabama Projects

Aug 21, 2026 Bay Minette

Foley

Foley Honors Alabama Conservation Commissioner Chris Blankenship With Keys to the City

Aug 19, 2026