Fairhope News

A study of how much mud is carried by Fly Creek to Mobile Bay, and where the sediment comes from, has been delayed by the refusal of several property owners to allow access to the waterway through their land.

In its 200th year, Baldwin County experienced the potential of new "green" industries, the challenge of paying for education and other public services and the deaths and departures of well-known local officials.

While Ronald and Becki Connally were away on vacation in July 2007, their Rock Creek subdivision home burned down.

As the worst economy in a generation has dragged on, one of the most heart-wrenching victims has been the family pet.

After signing in, Denise Smith was examined and treated by Dr. Izzy Pike in a borrowed office near the courthouse.

Fairhope and Gulf Shores are among a group of Alabama cities that have sued the nations online travel companies seeking unpaid lodgings taxes.

A federal judge said today that she was doing all she could to speed the transfer of an Iraq war veteran with psychological problems from the Baldwin County jail to a secure federal health facility.

More help from Eastern Shore volunteers will allow about 18 World War II veterans to visit Washington, D.C., in 2010 as part of the Honor Flight program, project organizers said Tuesday.

According to a report received this afternoon by the Baldwin County Health Department from Fairhope Utilities, due to an electrical problem at the Woodlands Lift Station at 1 Woodlands Drive, an estimated 3,500 gallons of "non-disinfected effluent" was discharged into Fly Creek.

For one Baldwin County family, this year's Christmas season is brimming with hope.

On Saturday, with a big truck full of dirt and hopefully a bunch of helping hands, a patch of earth beside the Fairhope-Point Clear Rotary Youth Club will be turned into a garden.

The City Council approved an ordinance Monday requiring that Mayor Tim Kant get council approval before hiring anyone to fill a non-budgeted position with the city.

John Folse has done it again. He's written a book that makes me hungry just looking at the cover.

For more than a year, High Ridge Road resident Paul Ripp has threatened to sue everyone involved with the Shoppes at Fairhope Village, a recently completed shopping center off U.S. 98 that features a Publix Super Market.

A thick fog covered Mobile Bay as students walked out on the pier at Meaher State Park and placed 10 fish into the water.

A series of concerts in Mississippi and south Alabama will recreate music Vince Guaraldi composed for the animated TV program "A Charlie Brown Christmas." John Milham knows how to stuff a stocking.

Alabama quarterback Daryl Norris of Fairhope, third from left, takes a snap during practice Thursday, Dec.

The controversy over developing the so-called "Corte Rectangle" -- the massive property that now includes a Publix Super Market at Parker Road off U.S. 98 -- continued this week when dozens of residents attended a city planning meeting.

A woman who collapsed while serving on a Baldwin County jury and received CPR for more than 20 minutes is showing signs of recovery.

Dec. 1 - Law enforcement officials from throughout the area were in Daphne Tuesday learning how to properly respond to and investigate domestic violence cases.