Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Robert Craft from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Gulf Shores is getting a $9.7 million outdoor learning campus designed to immerse students in coastal conservation, funded through the RESTORE Act and built on 22 wooded acres adjoining Gulf…
The City of Gulf Shores has named Paul “Mark” Sealy as its new fire chief, with Mayor Robert Craft and the City Council announcing the hire at the council’s August…
Gulf Shores has placed 836 acres of wetlands along Oyster Bay under a permanent conservation easement, protecting the land from future development and funding habitat restoration through a federal Deepwater…
Gulf Shores officials and Hangout Music Festival organizers are developing a neighborhood ambassador program to address residents' complaints about parking and other issues, as the city weighs renewing the festival's…
A $14.4 million federal BUILD grant will fund a wider Highway 59, a new pedestrian bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway and expanded bike and pedestrian paths in Gulf Shores.
Thirty-two Gulf Shores residents have submitted paperwork hoping to land one of five seats on the city’s newly formed school board, as officials continue laying the groundwork for a system…
Ten years after Hurricane Ivan devastated Baldwin County's coast, tougher building codes and emergency plans have reshaped Gulf Shores and Orange Beach.
Gulf Shores officials are pushing federal agencies for updated guidance on handling oil debris that could wash ashore during a storm, five years after Deepwater Horizon.
The University of South Alabama and the city of Gulf Shores will offer hospitality and tourism courses at the Gulf Shores Cultural Center beginning in January.
With the final interchange complete, Gov. Robert Bentley helped open the Baldwin Beach Express to Interstate 10 in August 2014, giving beach traffic a new route and easing pressure on…