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.
With an industrial recruitment session no longer needed, speculation in August 2008 turned to a special legislative session on natural gas royalties, a fight expected to test the oil industry's…
A WKRG Hometown Tour explored Fairhope's founding, Mobile Bay setting, public spaces and arts community.
As Mobile celebrated steel plants and tanker contracts in 2008, retired Dauphin Island Sea Lab director George Crozier warned that unmanaged growth could undo 40 years of hard-won water quality…
Rick Gambino, whose family restaurant was once among Fairhope's largest employers, announced his candidacy for mayor in May 2008, pledging fiscal conservatism and a promise to keep Fairhope, Fairhope.
As rain rolls off rooftops, parking lots and newly cleared subdivisions across the Gulf Coast, a growing number of residents and observers are asking a pointed question: why does Mobile…
Jack Burrell launched his campaign for mayor of Fairhope with a kickoff party at the Yardarm Restaurant at the Fairhope Pier, opening a municipal season that would run to the…
A spring 2008 lunch at The Bluegill on the Causeway turned up a respectable gumbo, a properly grilled grouper filet and a plainspoken verdict on where the restaurant ranks among…
A Causeway seafood market that became a restaurant after Katrina exceeded low expectations, with boiled crawfish cooked just right and a shrimp poorboy on New Orleans bread.
A burned roux, a jambalaya that resembled microwaved rice and greasy fried green tomatoes left our critic doing something he almost never does: leaving food on the plate.
South Mobile County needs more sewer capacity, but a proposal to discharge treated wastewater into Portersville Bay, or to route new sewer lines down Dauphin Island Parkway or Bellingrath Road,…