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.
A University of South Alabama meteorologist relayed word that the 2008 hurricane season would likely run above normal, with elevated odds of a major hurricane striking the Gulf Coast.
As Boeing prepared to protest the Air Force tanker award that promised an assembly line for Mobile, its own executives' and allies' past statements praising the competition's fairness came back…
The remains of the four-masted schooner Chiquimula near the Mobile Bay Causeway link Baldwin County to Capt. James Buffett and the Gulf’s fading age of commercial sail.
A bill to outlaw commercial gill net fishing in Alabama's coastal waters passed the Senate in a form the Bayou La Batre legislator said the House would kill, reopening a…
As Mobile continues to grow, so does the conversation about whether the city’s aging infrastructure can keep up, and one perennial topic has resurfaced: traffic trouble in the George Wallace…
With a $40 billion Air Force tanker decision imminent and an assembly line at stake for Brookley Field, an unsourced report in a foreign wire service set Mobile talking —…
A 2008 WKRG report described a tourism and hospitality boost in downtown Mobile as Mardi Gras coincided with the Senior Bowl.
Days after Iowa and New Hampshire scrambled the field, dozens of Mobile and Baldwin county political figures offered wildly different forecasts for a presidential contest neither party could yet control.
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby said a Nov. 1 meeting with governors and federal officials eased the immediate threat to Alabama's downstream water supply, including cooling water for the Farley Nuclear…
Mayor Tim Kant's offhand reference to Fairhope's 'fruit and nut' section raised eyebrows among outsiders. Longtime residents knew exactly what he meant: Fig, Orange, Pecan and Satsuma streets.