Fairhope News

A few months ago, Charla Barnes started working out for about four minutes, three times a week.

The John L. Borom Alabama Coastal BirdFest will take birding and wildlife enthusiasts on 16 different excursions to view the flora and fauna of the Alabama Gulf Coast during the event's four-day run Oct.

October 7 -- Voters across the Gulf Coast are heading to the Polls Tuesday. Voters in Daphne will head to the polls to decide who will be their next mayor.

Ron Hall earned plenty as an international art dealer. But Hall said it's Denver Moore, a once-homeless man, whose friendship has made his life rich.

A canine candidate, financial shell games and flower power. The flash and rhetoric of this year's mayoral campaign has been more colorful than a curbside flower container, and just a few days remain before ...

Inside the comfortable landscape of Rock Creek Golf Club in Fairhope, Ala., life is undoubtedly serene, a far cry from the bustling city of Houston across the Gulf where Doug Terreson, a former Morgan Stanley ...

While the city's heated mayoral contest has attracted much of the public's attention, the candidates in Tuesday's runoff election for City Council Place 2 have also thrown off their share of verbal sparks.

The city's treasurer responded to a charge made last week by mayoral candidate Dean Mosher -- during a debate against incumbent Tim Kant -- that a city credit account with The Home Depot is not in good ...

As millions of migratory birds head out over the Gulf of Mexico for winter in warmer climates, some have apparently been knocked off track by hurricanes Gustav and Ike.

Times Staff Writer victoria.cumbow@htimes.com Huntsville fourth on list of favorite places to retire Huntsville ranks among the nation's top 10 places to retire, according to one magazine's readers.

It takes two to tangle. And tangle they did. During an hour-long debate Thursday evening, incumbent Tim Kant and challenger Dean Mosher traded a barrage of verbal blows while a lively crowd cheered or booed.

Two Fairhope, Ala., police officers are being credited with a daring rescue. Sgt. Curtis Sullivan and Officer James Nelson pulled three adults from a burning house on Magnolia Ave.

Two Fairhope police officers dashed into a furiously burning house just before midnight Tuesday and rescued a man, his wife and a full-time nurse, all of whom were trapped in a rear bedroom and gasping for ...

City accountants informed the council Monday that skyrocketing energy costs, coupled with the council's decision last year not to raise electricity rates, had cut $2.5 million out of expected revenues for the ...

Will Birmingham-area workers see raises in 2009? Alabama's credit card debt third highest in nation Federal contracts For the record Home selling prices up 5.8% Networking opportunities Austal hits lull, looks ...

Bob Chatham didn't serve in the military, but he's designing homes for men and women who did via the nonprofit Homes For Our Troops.

McGill-Toolen football coach Keith Powell has been hospitalized this week while battling kidney stones at a Fairhope hospital, but he's expected to be on the sideline for Friday's game against Daphne.

Reported violent crimes in unincorporated Baldwin County jumped by 44 percent from 2006 to 2007, according to FBI figures released Monday.

Mortgage rates have dropped, but that doesn't mean everyone can get money at under 6 percent.

Sept. 10 -- Now here's something you probably don't shop for very often: angels! The Eastern Shore Art Center in Fairhope will be having a big angel-themed art exhibit in November.