Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Merceria Ludgood from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Agencies, nonprofits, private entities and local governments hoping for a share of Mobile County’s $80.14 million in American Rescue Plan Act money are running up against a key deadline. October…
MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA will break ground Friday on a new steel manufacturing line at its Mobile shipyard, a roughly $100 million expansion that the company says will let…
AM/NS Calvert has announced a $500 million Electric Arc Furnace expansion at its north Mobile County steel plant, a project expected to create 300 permanent jobs and support hundreds of…
The Mobile County Commission approved relocating 21 polling places for upcoming elections, citing the need for larger spaces to allow social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mobile County Commissioners have approved a temporary Chick-fil-A food counter at Government Plaza, giving jurors and county employees a new lunch and breakfast option starting as early as April.
The Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery Council, the 10-member body tasked with distributing $708 million in civil penalties BP owes for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, met recently to approve…
Mobile County plans to spend $15 million upgrading Metro Jail's mental health and medical facilities, part of a broader effort to resolve a 14-year-old Department of Justice investigation.
After four years of hammering out its own rules and procedures, the Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery Council has taken a significant step toward deciding which of hundreds of proposed projects…
Mobile County commissioners and CVS Corp. appear close to a new, cheaper lease that would keep the Semmes Library open, though a funding gap with the county's other branches remains…
Mobile County Commission President Merceria Ludgood says she won't set up a formal process for fellow commissioners to weigh in on her votes for the Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery Council,…