Mobile and Baldwin County News
Rock veteran Neil Young will bring his tour to Mobile’s Saenger Theatre on Sunday, Sept. 26, in a concert tied to hunger relief efforts for communities still recovering from the…
When the Deepwater Horizon well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico in the spring of 2010, Mobile native Mike deGruy did not wait to be asked. The Santa Barbara-based…
Surf and skate retailers along the Alabama and Florida Panhandle coast say the BP oil spill has gutted their busiest season of the year, and that a slow, confusing claims…
BP told local business leaders this week that its Deepwater Horizon spill-response operations based in Mobile have leaned heavily on local real estate, transportation, vendors and labor, offering some of…
A 2010 WKRG report documented major holiday-weekend tourism losses on Dauphin Island during the Gulf oil spill.
The Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce is among the business groups that joined a legal brief backing a federal court decision to lift the Obama administration’s six-month moratorium on deepwater…
Mobile Baykeeper, the local nonprofit focused on protecting Mobile Bay and its watershed, has come out against the continued use of the chemical dispersant Corexit in the federal response to…
As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill continued to threaten Alabama’s coastline in the summer of 2010, a grassroots effort called Sea Stand began recruiting musicians, comedians, and other performers to…
Organizers of the inaugural Festival of Musicians are offering roughly $1 million worth of free admission passes to Deepwater Horizon cleanup workers, ahead of the five-day music gathering set for…
The inaugural Hangout Music Festival packed the beach in Gulf Shores with big sets from the Black Crowes, Gov't Mule, The Roots and Trey Anastasio, surviving a Sunday lightning evacuation…