Mobile and Baldwin County News
A financial analysis of proposed West Mobile annexation suggests new property and sales tax revenue would largely offset added service costs, even as some residents in the police jurisdiction voice…
Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran has launched a petition drive called "Grow Mobile Now" seeking to remove the City Council's five-vote supermajority rule, drawing pushback from the mayor's office and…
Mobile officials are again weighing annexation of roughly 13,000 West Mobile residents as the city council debates police and fire coverage in the surrounding jurisdiction, with Sheriff Sam Cochran threatening…
The Mobile City Council voted 6-1 to delay a vote that would let about 13,000 residents in three county corridors decide on annexation, amid disputes over city spending on police…
The Mobile City Council has voted to annex the Darby Creek subdivision from unincorporated Mobile County, a modest move that officials say could be the start of a larger wave…
Residents of the west Mobile County community of Semmes were set to decide at the polls whether to incorporate as the county's 11th municipality, with organizers predicting a lopsided margin…
Political and governmental circles in Mobile County were openly discussing the possibility that Prichard might dissolve as a municipality, and what that would mean for policing.
A class action brought by businesses just outside the Mobile city limits could force the city to refund an estimated $85 million in gross receipts taxes and license fees collected…
A walk through Mobile's mid-year financial report for fiscal 2006-07 found revenue down 6.8 percent, hotel taxes collapsing against a Katrina-inflated year, and a transit subsidy running 121 percent over…
City figures showed Mobile collected $9.7 million in August 2006 sales taxes, up more than 20 percent from the prior year, in the month of Alabama's back-to-school sales tax holiday.