Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of infrastructure from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
State highway planners narrowed 14 possible crossings of the Mobile River to just three, none of them the northern route favored by preservationists, reviving a fight that echoed the 1980s…
The Jack Edwards Airport in Gulf Shores was awarded nearly $2.4 million from the Federal Aviation Administration to build hangar access taxiways, an investment aimed at strengthening the coastal Baldwin…
Mobile City Councilwoman Connie Hudson prepared to formally launch her campaign for the vacant District 2 seat on the Mobile County Commission, joining a Republican field forming quickly ahead of…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ron Sparks endorsed drawing $100 million a year for ten years from Alabama's oil and gas trust fund to rebuild highways, reviving a long-running fight over the…
A 2009 WKRG report examined the command-center and search-and-rescue work of Coast Guard Sector Mobile.
Mobile leaders endorsed a preferred route for a proposed high-rise I-10 bridge over Mobile Bay in 2009, seeking relief for tunnel and Bayway congestion.
A 2009 WKRG report described plans to expand a section of Cody Road in West Mobile and close it for construction.
With municipal elections set for the summer of 2009, Councilwoman Connie Hudson announced a bid for a third term while challenger Ron Wallace scheduled his first community meeting in District…
Mobile Airport Authority leaders met with business and community representatives in 2009 to discuss fares, service and ways to draw more passengers to Mobile Regional.
In 2008, Mobile gas stations joined a planned alternative-fuel corridor along Interstate 65, intended to give flexible-fuel and diesel drivers regular access to E85 and biodiesel pumps.