Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of coastal Alabama from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
A major piece of public beach access is back on the Alabama coast. Dauphin Island’s West End Beach reopened to visitors, returning a popular stretch of sand to public use…
CLARKE COUNTY, Ala. — With a heightened risk of severe weather forecast this week, emergency management agencies across the Gulf Coast are urging residents to prepare now, and the warnings…
Three tagged sharks surface near Mobile Bay Three tagged sharks, including two great whites, have been pinging in the Gulf of Mexico within range of the central Gulf Coast, according…
GULF SHORES, Ala. — The Gulf State Park Pier reopened to the public Saturday, Jan. 30, at 6 a.m., roughly four months after Hurricane Sally destroyed a section of the…
Marine researchers on Dauphin Island are keeping close watch on a sperm whale that has wandered well beyond its usual deep-water home, with the animal pushing even farther north into…
Gov. Kay Ivey issued a mandatory evacuation order for visitors and tourists along Alabama’s beach areas as Hurricane Delta churned in the Gulf of Mexico. The order covered Orange Beach,…
FORT MORGAN, Ala. — Standing water continued to pool in parts of Fort Morgan weeks after Hurricane Sally, leaving a handful of residents on the low-lying peninsula dealing with water…
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Six Atlantic spotted dolphins were found dead in a Dauphin Island marsh last week in what state officials are calling the first mass stranding of its…
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. — The Mobile County Commission will start removing Hurricane Sally debris on Monday, Sept. 28. The two-week scramble after Sally’s landfall had left roads, yards, and drainage…
FAIRHOPE, Ala. — The curfew that Fairhope put in place as Hurricane Sally swept through the Gulf Coast has been lifted, city police announced. In a statement released Sept. 25,…