After listening for an hour Thursday night as residents and teachers expressed opposition to a proposal to realign Baldwin County elementary and middle schools, Alan Lee, superintendent of education, said he will announce a decision on the proposal Friday.

The Personnel Board has upheld the recommended termination of a corrections officer, one of six Police Department employees whom Chief Bill Press sought to have fired.

About 300 people gathered Tuesday night at Foley Elementary to lodge questions about a proposed realignment of elementary schools and five intermediate facilities in the county, a proposal meant to ease overcrowding.

President Barack Obama with his wife Michelle toured the massive tornado devastation in Tuscaloosa April 29, 2011.

More than 200 acres in Weeks Bay Reserve off U.S. 98 near Magnolia Springs and Fairhope were included in a controlled burn this morning by the Alabama state lands division of the Department of Conservation & Natural Resources.

This is why we fight as a collective Kos community today to support the effort to pass SB 810 in the California Senate and bring single payer to our largest state.

No one knows exactly how the City Council's new Education Advisory Committee will operate, or when it will get started, or who will be appointed to it, or whether it will get any money.

Though he hasn't lived on the coast in years, Jim White still draws heavily on his experiences in the region.

Even as city officials reached a consensus on how to add bike lanes and restripe newly paved streets, a new study ranked Alabama poorly in bicycle and pedestrian safety and in commuting to work.

After a positive audit was presented to the City Council on Monday night, Council President Lonnie Mixon took the opportunity to praise its efforts to improve finances.

A Birmingham company that already collects the city's sales tax will now assist in tracking down businesses that are not paying their share of municipal taxes, as well as help find businesses operating without licenses.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday against motions filed by the Dyas family and the city of Fairhope in the " Dyas Triangle " property battle.

Some Ocean Springs merchants want to bring attention to what they said is an often overlooked section of downtown.

The Rev. Jerry Henry, pastor of First Baptist Church of Fairhope, identifies in every way with being a Southern Baptist, but like some other pastors he considers that the "Southern" in Southern Baptist Convention might be a hindrance when it comes to reaching out in other parts of the country and world.

William R. Higgs, M.D. of Fairhope, Alabama, has recently been included in America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of healthcare.

Pat Lee, founder of Children of the World, an international adoption agency based in Fairhope, holds a lion costume for the Chinese New Year parade.

A City of Fairhope Mayor Tim Kant said Tuesday the streets of downtown have yet to be striped as the city continues to discuss the safest traffic options.

After months of pressing for reorganization in the Baldwin County Building Department, commissioners appear poised to cut two jobs and close the division's Bay Minette office, according to the agenda for today's meeting .