Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of downtown Mobile from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Vocalist Symone French and her band, the Trouille Troupe, will play a post-BeerFest show at Dauphin Street Blues Company in downtown Mobile on Saturday, Aug. 24, bringing a mix of…
Mobile-area residents are voicing growing frustration over a proposed toll on a new Mobile River Bridge and a Cordish Companies plan to raze the Civic Center, even as officials say…
MOBILE, Ala. — A suspect in an armed robbery at a downtown Mobile business is now in custody. Investigators with the Mobile Police Department say David Edwards was arrested and…
Two competing visions for redeveloping the Mobile Civic Center were presented to the Mobile City Council this week, and some downtown business owners are questioning whether either plan adds up.…
MOBILE, Ala. — Mayor Sandy Stimpson said in July 2019 that asphalt would be laid on Florida Street within about three weeks, with the remaining work on the long-running drainage…
Severe thunderstorms sweeping through the Mobile area on the evening of June 27, 2019, knocked out electricity to roughly 16,000 customers at the peak of the event, according to Alabama…
A wave of commercial real estate activity is reshaping downtown Mobile and the surrounding region, highlighted by a nearly 70-year-old accounting firm’s decision to return to the central business district…
It was a messy showdown for the Distinguished Young Women on Wednesday, when 50 contestants in the 2019 national competition packed into Saucy Q’s in Downtown Mobile for the program’s…
The City of Mobile has installed new street signs designating “Honorary Mel Showers Drive” and “Honorary Mel Showers Avenue” outside the Studios at 555 Broadcast Drive, paying tribute to the…
The swinging decade gets its due this summer at the History Museum of Mobile, where a new exhibit traces how 1960s fashion mirrored one of America’s most turbulent eras. “Sensational…