Mobile and Baldwin County News
GULF SHORES, Ala. — Gulf Shores was among the first Baldwin County communities to feel Hurricane Sally’s impact when the storm made landfall just before 5 a.m. last Wednesday. Weeks…
With a tropical system taking aim at the Gulf Coast, Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier is urging both residents and visitors to begin their storm preparations now rather than wait…
Mobile's city council cut more than $700,000 from its bus transit budget while boosting tourism funding, as the fiscal 2016 budget passed unanimously.
Mobile's City Council debated a contractor diversity reporting rule, MoonPie Drop attendance data and a proposed flea market animal sale ban.
Theodore's Bellingrath Gardens placed sixth nationally in a USA Today reader poll ranking the country's best public holiday light displays this season.
City officials prepared to announce the arrival of the Harbor Lady, a 149-passenger vessel set to offer daily sightseeing and dinner cruises along the Mobile River and into Mobile Bay…
A quarter century after Mobile bet its downtown revival on a waterfront convention center, business and civic figures offered a candid, divided verdict on whether the gamble paid off.
With an $18.5 million deficit and a five-vote requirement, Mayor Sam Jones fell a single council vote short of a one-cent sales tax increase, leaving three members holding extraordinary leverage.
A 2008 WKRG report described a tourism and hospitality boost in downtown Mobile as Mardi Gras coincided with the Senior Bowl.
Mobile's tourism chief reported that Mississippi supplied the most out-of-state visitors to the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit and that the Carnival Holiday was routinely sailing well over capacity.