Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Mobile Bay from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Mobile Baykeeper, the local nonprofit focused on protecting Mobile Bay and its watershed, has come out against the continued use of the chemical dispersant Corexit in the federal response to…
As the BP oil spill fouled the Gulf, Mobile native Rick Kuykendall emerged as a leading claims attorney while BP agreed to fund a $15 million closing of Katrina Cut…
The Alabama State Port Authority and the City of Mobile prepared to cut the ribbon on Arlington Park, a newly constructed bay front park with a launch for kayaks and…
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…
The nationally recognized Hot Rod Power Tour is set to close out its 2010 cross-country run with two free-to-attend stops in Mobile, cruising downtown on June 11 before parking at…
A 2010 WKRG report documented oil reaching Fort Morgan's bay-side shoreline during the Deepwater Horizon spill.
The morning after Alabama's June 1 primaries, political veterans across the Mobile Bay area tried to explain Robert Bentley's surge, Artur Davis's collapse and the defeat of a sitting attorney…
As tar balls turn up near Dauphin Island and businesses from the coast to Loxley report falling revenue, Mobile Baykeeper's Casi Callaway urges residents to document local waters ahead of…
Long before she earned the nickname "One Take Lil" from Duke Ellington, Prichard native Lil Greenwood was a schoolteacher with a voice that would carry her from a San Francisco…
In the first days after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion set off a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Mobile emerged as a nerve center for the response.…