Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of economic development from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
With 29,000 construction workers expected for a $3.7 billion steel mill in north Mobile County, a former Mobile mayor floated an unusual fix: haul surplus FEMA trailers to a planned…
Mobile Regional, Atmore Municipal, Dauphin Island and Bay Minette Municipal airports shared more than $3.28 million in federal aviation grants for sprinklers, security fencing and runway protection zones.
Pointing to Mercedes, Honda, Hyundai and the new EADS facility in Mobile, Alabama's senior senator said he had cosigned a letter with enough signatures to stop the Employee Free Choice…
The Mobile City Council met in special session on a memorandum of understanding for the city's share of incentives for the $3.7 billion steel plant near Calvert, as the county…
With a $2.9 billion steel mill decision expected within days, Mobile Mayor Sam Jones told a civic club he would not trade places with Louisiana, and laid out where the…
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, County Commissioner Juan Chastang and ADECA Director Bill Johnson headlined the Washington/Douglass Economic Forum, a Republican-sponsored think tank session on poverty and race.
U.S. Rep. Artur Davis of Birmingham came to Mobile for a Dutch-treat luncheon with three dozen politically active locals, an introduction arranged as speculation about a future statewide run followed…
The U.S. Department of Transportation agreed in February 2007 to release more than $10 million to the Alabama State Port Authority for the Choctaw Point Terminal and an intermodal rail…
With US Airways pursuing an $8 billion hostile bid for Delta in late 2006, Mobile Regional Airport's marketing director weighed better connections against the risk of higher fares and less…
Alabama's senior senator warned a Senate defense panel in July 2006 that cutting $203.9 million from the KC-135 tanker replacement program would delay a contract that could bring aircraft work…