Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of public works from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Gulf Shores has closed the Main Gulf Place parking lot to vehicles until Friday while Public Works crews clear sand pushed into the area by Tropical Storm Bertha.
As construction wraps up on the new Africatown Welcome Center, the City of Mobile is asking residents to share stories, photos and artifacts to help tell Africatown's history.
Mobile Parks and Recreation has reopened Figures Pool on Donald Street after crews cleared a plumbing blockage caused by debris in the system, restoring access less than a day after…
The $16 million St. Louis Street reconstruction has reached block eight of 17, rebuilding one of downtown Mobile's busiest business corridors from the water mains up while keeping traffic moving.
Foley leaders take the first step toward redeveloping downtown West Orange Avenue with a $100,000 engineering contract, part of an agenda that also covers a senior center, a $2 million…
The Alabama Department of Transportation will close the Bankhead Tunnel for two consecutive nights next week while crews upgrade fiber optic lines running through the crossing, adding another disruption to…
THOMASVILLE, Ala. — Cleanup crews in Thomasville are still working to clear the debris left behind by Hurricane Zeta, and Mayor Sheldon Day says it will be impossible to remove…
Two men charged in the shooting death of Mobile Public Works employee Justin Mooney have been indicted by a Mobile County grand jury. Mooney was killed in the Birdville community…
MOBILE, Ala. — Mayor Sandy Stimpson said in July 2019 that asphalt would be laid on Florida Street within about three weeks, with the remaining work on the long-running drainage…
A 2018 consultant review found that 40% of Mobile-owned properties were rated poor or worse, highlighting years of deferred maintenance.