Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Deepwater Horizon from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill spread across the Gulf, organizers of the brand-new Hangout Beach, Music and Arts Festival in Gulf Shores announced all profits from its inaugural weekend…
Days before the first Hangout Music Festival opened in Gulf Shores in May 2010, organizers replaced the Flaming Lips, sidelined by multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd's illness, with the Roots — a…
A plain-language guide to the Deepwater Horizon spill: why the blowout preventer failed, the three plans to stop the leak, how crude behaves at sea, and how this spill compares…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Johnson called for mobilizing Alabama's KC-135 refueling wing to drop chemical dispersant on the Gulf oil slick. A state general dismissed the idea in two words.
A press conference at which area legislators and council members were to endorse gubernatorial candidate Bradley Byrne was called off as the Gulf oil spill scrambled schedules along the coast.