The summer beach season is over, and it didn’t end too soon for public safety officials who say they saw an increase in the number of tourist deaths along Alabama’s coast this year. Five people drowned on the Alabama coast …
Sand Island along the Alabama coast has disappeared beneath the waves. The Sand Island Lighthouse is still standing alone in the water. But the island that was rebuilt by the U.S Army Corps of Engineers last year got eroded by …
Coastal Alabama is under a mandatory evacuation order as Isaac churns through the Gulf of Mexico. Gov. Robert Bentley ordered residents of southern Baldwin and Mobile counties to begin evacuating starting 8 a.m. Monday, and both counties are under a …
Within the span of a week, the Gulf built a beach in front of most of the Alabama rock wall used to close Katrina Cut. The wall was constructed in 2010 using money provided by BP during the oil spill. …
Royal Dutch Shell said Monday that it has shut down an offshore drilling rig off the coast of Alabama following a leak of drilling fluid. Shell said 319 barrels of the synthetic and biodegradable fluid leaked from a booster line. …