Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Gulf of Mexico from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
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…
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…
A nationwide demonstration against offshore drilling was set to reach Gulf Shores, where participants planned to gather on the public beach to oppose drilling and call for clean energy in…
In late June 2010, with the BP oil spill dominating headlines across the Gulf Coast, conditions around Dauphin Island remained largely normal — a welcome snapshot of calm for the…
Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band are set to headline a free beach concert in Gulf Shores on July 1, 2010, an event organizers hope will encourage visitors to…
As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill spread across the Gulf in the spring of 2010, international press attention turned to Bon Secour Fisheries, whose century-old Baldwin County business felt the…
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…
Class action attorney Rick Kuykendall, a Mobile native, drew national notice for his work on Deepwater Horizon claims, as federal prosecutors opened a criminal investigation and BP agreed to fund…
Fifty days into the Gulf disaster, the cap fitted over the failed blowout preventer was recovering more than 10,000 barrels a day, but engineers were still venting oil into the…
With oil still pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, engineers worked to shear off a broken riser pipe a mile below the surface and seat a containment cap over the…