Mobile and Baldwin County News
After overdose deaths claimed a 15-year-old girl in Semmes and a 21-year-old man in Theodore, two Mobile-area state representatives are pushing separate bills aimed at punishing those who distribute fentanyl…
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…
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…
Political action committees tied to Alabama Power spent nearly $100,000 on Mobile and Baldwin county legislative races in the 2018 election cycle, with spending accelerating further in 2019, state campaign…
The phrase 'double-dipping' echoed through Alabama politics, but a survey of legislators, educators and attorneys found no agreement on what it actually meant, or whether it was a problem at…
Seventeen Mobile attorneys applied to fill the Mobile County District Court seat being vacated by retiring Judge Mike McMaken, launching a selection process overseen by a five-member commission.
State Rep. Jamie Ison, R-Mobile, prepared to launch her campaign for a third term in House District 101 with a July 14 reception in Spring Hill backed by a host…
With the summer heat settling in, area officials past and present shared the boxers, hounds, cats and rescues that keep them company, a warmer counterpoint to the city's debates over…
With Amendment One fading from memory and Gov. Bob Riley courting industry, Alabama Democrats searched for a weakness heading into the fall campaign, while local sidewalks and a federal lawsuit…
With the June 2006 primary returns counted, the newspaper graded the anonymous insiders who had forecast the vote, handing out marks from A-minus to a blunt D in a lighthearted…