Bayou La Batre News

Voters chose two new candidates and an incumbent to serve on the City Council in today's runoff.

The Justice Department today announced that on Oct. 7, 2008, it will monitor the municipal election in the town of Bayou La Batre, Ala., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

By Bruce Adkins We are trying hard to impress on everyone in the nation the value of Dauphin Island as a barrier against sea swells in protecting the whole Mobile and Baldwin County shorelines around Mobile ...

Chimamanda Adichie Unaffiliated Columbia, MD Age: 31 Fiction Writer exploring the circumstances that lead to ethnic conflict in richly imagined novels and stories inspired by bailing out rapacious Wall Street ...

Dr. Regina Benjamin, has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the Macarthur Foundation for her efforts to bring quality health care to the underserved.

A violin virtuoso, an architectural historian who studies ancient bridges and a family physician who rebuilt an Alabama health clinic after it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina are among 25 recipients of this ...

The following 25 fellows each will receive $500,000 over the next five years from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: Chimamanda Adichie, 31, fiction writer, Columbia, Md.

Mobile's annexation proposal is reigniting efforts by some rural lawmakers to shrink the city's 5-mile-wide planning jurisdiction.

The Juvenile Court of Mobile County will hold its first Community Advisory Board meeting for concerned citizens of Grand Bay, St.

Sept. 12 - 29 years ago, on September 12, 1979, Hurricane Frederic crashed into the Alabama Gulf Coast.

A man died after he was electrically shocked while working at a Bayou La Batre shipyard on Wednesday evening, authorities said.

A 48-year-old Pass Christian man was severely injured at a construction site in Bayou La Batre this morning.

Hurricane Gustav left shrimp rotting on vessels across southeastern Louisiana, where fishing communities without power also lack ice.

The Bayou La Batre Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the 20th-annual Taste of the Bayou.

Sixty-one-year-old Beverly Peters and 13 of her children and grandchildren fled New Orleans Sunday with little more than a change of clothes and the hope that their homes would still be there when they ...

With the latest forecast track and speed, the center of Gustav is expected to make landfall along the central LA coast on Labor Day.

As much of the Gulf Coast breathes a sign of relief, we are able to look at many of the magnificent moments of Hurricane Gustav captured by NBC 15 viewers.

Based on the strength and uncertainty of Hurricane Gustav, Mobile County officials have issued a voluntary evacuation for Zone 1 south of I-10, said Walt Dickerson, the county's emergency management director.

At the request of local emergency management officials, Governor Bob Riley on Sunday ordered the mandatory evacuation of residents of low lying and flood prone areas of southern Mobile County and Baldwin County ...

Gov. Bob Riley said Saturday he did not want to order an evacuation before it is necessary but cautioned that Hurricane Gustav could change course, raising a greater threat to the Alabama coast.