Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of tourism from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
House Speaker Mike Hubbard was chosen to lead the Southern Legislative Conference, which announced it would hold its next annual meeting in Mobile, bringing lawmakers from across the South to…
City officials prepared to announce the arrival of the Harbor Lady, a 149-passenger vessel set to offer daily sightseeing and dinner cruises along the Mobile River and into Mobile Bay…
The band Three Dog Night was set to headline Mobile’s free New Year’s Eve celebration, capped by the midnight MoonPie Drop from the RSA BankTrust tower as the city welcomed…
Dauphin Island officials said Army and Navy representatives explored the island in 2011 as a possible site for an armed-forces recreation center.
Fairhope’s 2011 Arts and Crafts Festival drew an estimated 200,000 visitors over three days, with more than 200 artists and strong sales reported.
A 2010 WKRG report described a sharp summer tourism decline in Baldwin County's coastal communities after the Gulf oil spill.
A quarter century after Mobile bet its downtown revival on a waterfront convention center, business and civic figures offered a candid, divided verdict on whether the gamble paid off.
The Jack Edwards Airport in Gulf Shores was awarded nearly $2.4 million from the Federal Aviation Administration to build hangar access taxiways, an investment aimed at strengthening the coastal Baldwin…
BP is putting up $50,000 to sponsor Mobile’s annual BayFest music festival, according to a local television station’s report, as the oil company looks to smooth over relations with a…
Online ticket sales for this year’s Bayfest are running roughly 50 percent ahead of last year’s pace, with buyers purchasing tickets from as far away as Hawaii, Scotland and England,…