Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of city government from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
A Landmark Under the Microscope The future of the Mobile Civic Center took center stage at a City Council work session with designers, where renovation concepts carrying price tags of…
With one week left before the city’s deadline, Mobile City Council members still could not lock down the five votes needed to approve a new redistricting map — and if…
Residents of Citronelle will have to take their tag and title business elsewhere for about a month. Mayor Jason Stringer announced that the city’s tag office is shutting down temporarily…
City workers traded desks for trash bags Friday morning, joining volunteers to clear litter from several west Mobile neighborhoods as part of the city’s community service day. The cleanup ran…
The City of Gulf Shores has finished its first-ever Resident Satisfaction Survey and made the complete report available to the public, giving city leaders a data-backed picture of how residents…
The Gulf Shores City Council signed off on two 20-year loans totaling $197 million, locking in financing for a sweeping 10-year capital improvement plan city leaders say is needed to…
The Mobile NAACP has joined the Southern Poverty Law Center and Stand Up Mobile in opposing Mayor Sandy Stimpson’s proposed redistricting plan, arguing that the plan’s proposed fourth Black-majority district…
Mobile residents got their first chance to weigh in on proposed City Council district boundaries during two virtual town halls streamed on the city’s Facebook page — one at noon,…
Mobile is one City Council vote away from joining the growing list of cities using automated gunshot detection, with a proposed three-year contract worth roughly $640,000 with ShotSpotter headed for…
The city of Mobile has opened an investigation into a Mobile Fire-Rescue firefighter’s allegation that she was inappropriately touched by a fire captain while the two were working at a…