Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Mobile River from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
A week-long underwater survey of the Mobile River has concluded, cataloging newly discovered shipwrecks in a stretch of the river long known as a ship graveyard while continuing the search…
The Alabama Historical Commission is launching a Phase I sonar survey of the Mobile River to inventory shipwrecks and submerged cultural sites, work that could also help locate the long-sought…
ALDOT crews are conducting pile driving work this week near the Wallace Tunnel as part of ongoing foundation testing for the proposed Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project.
A two-year study by the environmental group Mobile Baykeeper warns that the coal ash pond at Alabama Power’s Plant Barry poses a high risk of dam failure and is already…
As Alabama marks its bicentennial, archaeologists are quietly continuing work at a much older piece of Deep South history — the original French settlement of Mobile, founded in 1702 and…
University of South Alabama archaeologists and volunteers continue carefully excavating the original 1702 Mobile colony site along the Mobile River, uncovering artifacts left behind when the settlement moved downriver nine…
A look back at how Mobile built a cruise industry partnership with Carnival, from a 2001 test run to a full-time home port.
Mobile officials are weighing a temporary downtown ice rink at Cooper Riverside Park, running from Thanksgiving through the New Year holiday season.
More than 100 Mobile residents questioned Arc Logistics over plans to expand sulfuric acid storage at its waterfront terminal near downtown.
A 21-by-30-foot silk batik artwork depicting Mobile Bay was permanently installed in the rotunda of the soon-to-open GulfQuest museum in Mobile.