Perdido News

The course map for the Thunder on the Gulf powerboat races to be held on Sunday, June 2, 2013.

Owen Black, 8, was found dead Sunday, May 19, 2013. Authorities say he wandered away while his parents were sleeping on Friday, May 17, 2013.

Boaters and sunbathers crowd around Robinson Island during Memorial Day weekend Sunday, May 27, 2012, in Orange Beach, Ala.

Owen Black, 8, was found dead Sunday in Perdido Key, Fla., in the Gulf of Mexico near the shore of a beach.

ORANGE BEACH, Alabama -- AL.com beaches reporter and photographer Brian Kelly refuse to quit the search for the best burgers on the beach.

Owen Black, who is autistic, was last seen Friday in the area of the Need Rush Point condominiums in the 17100 block of Perdido Key Drive.

MOBILE, Alabama - So you've got your Hangout Music Festival tickets in hand and are Gulf Shores-bound for a little surf and sand therapy.

The M/V Yokamu, a 271-foot-long, 39-foot-wide retired cargo ship, makes its way under the Dr.

The public can get a glimpse into the future of alternative fuel extraction from sugar "energy" beets, above, sugar cane and sweet sorghum during an open house and tour at Woerner Turf in Foley on Thursday.

Reefmaker deckhand Chris Dunaway looks on as the first pyramid is deployed in the new R. Vernon Minton Artificial Reef Zone East, located in Alabama state waters southeast of Orange Beach.