Mobile and Baldwin County News
For the past three years, ALDOT and Mobile city engineers have run a joint traffic monitoring center during Mardi Gras season, adjusting signals in real time and powering the city's…
Mobile voters have again named the Excelsior Brass Band the city's Best Brass Band, honoring a group that has provided the soundtrack to Mardi Gras parades for 143 years.
Mobile's Order of Osiris, the city's oldest LGBTQ+ Mardi Gras mystical society, has won its seventh Reader's Choice Award for Best Mardi Gras Ball since forming in 1981.
As Mardi Gras 2026 parades rolled through Mobile and Baldwin counties, ALDOT and city traffic engineers worked from a dedicated monitoring center to keep traffic moving, aided by a new…
One of Mobile Mardi Gras’ founding traditions will be missing from the 2024 Joe Cain Parade, as preparations for the season get underway. The Cain Raisers — the two floats…
Mobile's Carnival season returned in full force this year, drawing packed crowds back downtown and giving parade satirists fresh material in the Prichard Water Board spending scandal.
Mobile is giving Mardi Gras parading organizations more time and flexibility to decide on 2021 plans, easing permit and ball-cancellation deadlines as several mystic societies call off their events amid…
MOBILE, Ala. — Mardi Gras season and flu season collide in Mobile every February, and health officials want revelers to enjoy the parades without bringing home an illness. With more…
Carnival season is in full swing in the Port City, and the Conde Cavaliers are set to roll as downtown Mobile’s first parade of the season Friday night. For newcomers…
A local's guide to navigating Mobile's Mardi Gras parades, from picking a viewing spot with easy parking and restroom access to timing your arrival and working the crowd for throws.