Amtrak announced on July 1 that its Mardi Gras service route from Mobile to New Orleans will operate twice daily, beginning August 18. The trip from Mobile to New Orleans will take approximately four hours, according to Amtrak. Trains will depart Mobile at 6:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. There will be short stops at Pascagoula, […]

The wife of the skipper of a boat that sank off Dauphin Island over the Thanksgiving holiday said she plans to turn the vessel into a fishing reef to honor her late husband. Marty Ann Wooley, whom the boat was named for, was married 27 years to Sam Wooley, 69, who died along with two […]

Breeze Airways will stop commercial airline service from the Mobile International Airport on Jan. 31, just one year after announcing its move to Mobile, the airline announced. Breeze Airlines offered low-cost, nonstop flights from Mobile to Orlando twice a week and one-stop flights to Providence, R.I. The airline was the only commercial air service flying […]

The battleship USS Alabama welcomed an original crewmember from 1944 who celebrated his 99th birthday. “When I saw it, I felt moisture in my eyes,” said Bernard “Ben” Teevan, who loaded five-inch shells on the battleship during World War II. “I was coming home.” He toured the battleship and strolled on its newly renovated deck […]

The Mobile County Public School System is enforcing new security protocols this year, including weapons detectors at the school entrances, vape detectors in bathrooms and confiscating cell phones during class hours. The MCPSS said it will begin locking cell phones in safes or Yondr pouches at the beginning of the school day in each student’s […]