Mobile and Baldwin County News
Mayor Sandy Stimpson's office plans to unveil a new annexation proposal for West Mobile next month, arriving just as the City Council works to finalize a contentious redistricting plan before…
Four new members joined the Mobile City Council after a 2021 election cycle marked by the death of Councilman Levon Manzie before his runoff, a renewed fight over annexation and…
MOBILE, Alabama — Amtrak is asking a federal board to require two freight railroad companies to let it run passenger trains between New Orleans and Mobile, even as some Mobile…
Amtrak has asked the federal Surface Transportation Board to force CSX and Norfolk Southern to allow new Mobile-to-New Orleans passenger trains, even as some Mobile City Council members say the…
Mobile City Council members learned that several hundred Public Works employees are ineligible for a $500 bonus other city workers receive, a side effect of a separate incentive pay program…
Repeated complaints about crowds spilling out of a Mobile sports bar and filling the surrounding parking lot have put the business on the Mobile Police Department’s radar, and the chief…
The Mobile City Council voted 5-2 to raise the mayor's salary to $125,000 and council members' base pay to $24,600 starting in November 2021, despite objections over the timing amid…
Mobile City Council passed a Fred Richardson-sponsored resolution 5-2 requiring six feet of distance between people on city property, empowering the mayor to close public property if the rule can't…
Mobile officials are again weighing annexation of roughly 13,000 West Mobile residents as the city council debates police and fire coverage in the surrounding jurisdiction, with Sheriff Sam Cochran threatening…
Mobile City Council pushed back a vote on a $3 million funding commitment for restored passenger rail service, with members split over financial risk ahead of a Feb. 4 vote…