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Coverage of U.S. Navy from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Regulator examines Austal’s market disclosures Australian authorities are investigating Austal, the shipbuilder behind the Austal USA facility in Mobile, over market disclosures tied to a U.S. Navy shipbuilding program. According…
MOBILE, Ala. — Mobile’s largest industrial employer, Austal USA, will build at least two more Littoral Combat Ships for the U.S. Navy, adding to a run of contracts that has…
Two visiting vessels are adding a military flourish to Mobile’s Mardi Gras season: the Navy guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea and the Coast Guard fast response cutter USCGC Jacob Poroo…
Mobile saw a weekend rally against Donald Trump's election even as local leaders eyed economic gains for Austal and the Interstate 10 bridge, while Baldwin County posted record voter turnout…
Austal USA christened the future USS Gabrielle Giffords in Mobile, with Second Lady Jill Biden serving as the littoral combat ship's sponsor.
The future USS Jackson, the first littoral combat ship built by Austal as prime contractor, made its way down the Mobile River for sea trials.
Will J. 'Billy' Steen, a 96-year-old WWII veteran living in Bay Minette, recalls his Navy service and decades helping build Alabama's phone lines.
Bayside Academy in Daphne has named Michael Papa, a former Navy captain and veteran school administrator, as its new headmaster.
Mobile's Battleship Memorial Park marked the Pearl Harbor anniversary with a first-of-its-kind reenactment and flyover aboard the USS Alabama.
A 94-year-old Mobile man and Pearl Harbor survivor shares his memories of the 1941 attack that changed his life and pulled America into World War II.