Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Fort Morgan peninsula from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Between 2009 and 2021, the Mississippi Sound and Portersville and Heron bays lost 210 acres of marsh — about 159 football fields. Scientists, landowners and boaters explain what is driving…
TSA officers screening a passenger's bag at Gulf Shores International Airport discovered five small cannonballs later determined to have been stolen from historic Fort Morgan.
The Baldwin County Commission has approved zoning changes that cap building heights on the Fort Morgan peninsula, responding to warnings from fire officials and residents that overcrowded, hard-to-reach rental homes…
A University of South Alabama archaeologist will discuss the excavation of a 1,400-year-old Native American canoe canal discovered on the Fort Morgan Peninsula near Gulf Shores.
The Coast Guard launched a search near Fort Morgan after a jet-skier was reported struck by lightning and dragged behind the watercraft into open Gulf waters.
Winter visitors from the Midwest pump over $30 million into Gulf Shores and Orange Beach each year while also fueling local charity fundraisers.
ALDOT is building a wider dock, new fencing and a covered shelter for the Mobile Bay Ferry landing on the Dauphin Island side of the bay this fall.
Strong Labor Day bookings and rising tax collections point to a fourth straight record tourism summer for Alabama's Gulf Coast.
Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan host a sesquicentennial reenactment of the Battle of Mobile Bay, with tickets, shuttles, ferries and a full weekend schedule.
A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck about 10 miles off Baldwin County in February 2011, with residents from Orange Beach to Dauphin Island reporting light shaking.