Mobile and Baldwin County News
MOBILE, Ala. — Gov. Kay Ivey visited Austal USA’s Mobile shipyard Wednesday morning as the company highlighted a new apprenticeship program made up entirely of military veterans. The visit put…
MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA’s shipyard on the Mobile River will host another naval milestone this weekend: the christening of the future USNS Newport, the twelfth Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport…
The future USS Kansas City (LCS 22) has cleared its final major hurdle before joining the fleet, completing acceptance trials in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship is the 11th…
Rep. Bradley Byrne backed a federal spending bill funding three littoral combat ships at Mobile's Austal USA shipyard and $100 million for the Port of Mobile.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel endorsed an upgraded littoral combat ship design, ensuring continued production at Mobile's Austal USA, the county's largest employer.
Hagel's resignation as Defense Secretary sparked cautious optimism among backers of Austal USA's littoral combat ship program in Mobile.
Mobile leaders endorsed a preferred route for a proposed high-rise I-10 bridge over Mobile Bay in 2009, seeking relief for tunnel and Bayway congestion.
With ThyssenKrupp rising near Calvert, Austal expanding downtown and aircraft work possible at Brookley, a veteran labor lawyer was asked whether organized labor would ride the boom back into Mobile.…
A former Alabama assistant attorney general and industrial development board member announced a run for Chickasaw City Council in 2008, promising more police, a teen curfew and code enforcement.
With 11 of 14 proposed routes eliminated and transportation officials nearing a decision, Mobile's maritime community convened a public session downtown that organizers called critical to the port's future.