👕 🖼️ NOW OPEN: Yellowhammer Print Shop has relocated to 500 28th Street South, offering a vibrant space for showcasing products and engaging with the community, with a grand opening set for March

♿ ACCESSIBILITY IS KEY: Learn how attorney and advocate Graham Sisson ensured ADA compliance during the Vulcan Park restoration

For as long as he can remember, David Stephens has always loved puppets — more specifically, Muppets. “They wouldn’t even run cable out to where we were in Magnolia Springs, but we had the three networks,” Stephens said. “They would run the reruns of…

One sunny March afternoon on Dauphin Island, as young people lounged under colorful beach umbrellas or swam in the Gulf, three school-aged girls and some professional scientists were sifting through the sands of time. Their quest? To find fossils…

Fairhope residents once again packed the city council chamber Monday night to debate whether or not certain library books are suitable for children under 18 to read and should be moved to the adult section of the library. About 75 people attended the…

“Everybody wants animal control... We brought it to the commissioners before, and the commissioners do not want to make a change.”

Walking past a booth filled with hand-woven rugs at a festival, you’d never guess that those products led to the recovery of a man who had once thought his life was over.

Minnie Bruce Pratt, an Alabama native, women’s liberation and LGBTQ activist, poet and educator, died Sunday surrounded by friends and family in Syracuse, New York, at the age of 76. Her death comes after her sons announced in June that she had been…

The day after the U.S. Supreme Court delivered the ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, the phone calls started rolling in to the Rev. Sonya Williams. The court had just stripped away the federal guarantee of abortion rights, leaving it up to…

When Wes Young — or as his students know him, Mr. Young — tells his high school students what he did over the summer, it’s not quite what they expect to hear.

Many people who are dying in Twiggs County have unreachable family members, or the family is unable to afford burial or cremation costs, the coroner told the county board of commissioners during their last meeting. “We’ve had about 15 already this…

One dewy morning at the Wesleyan College Arboretum, the chatter of birds could be heard from all around, but there was one noise that stood out. “I hear a good one, which is a red-headed woodpecker,” Wesleyan College biology professor Jim Ferrari…

In response to a crucial lack of sexual assault kits available in one of the fastest growing counties in Alabama, one hospital system is developing a “formalized Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program” for Baldwin County. Currently, it is…

It’s no secret that Baldwin County is growing up quickly. The area has held its own among the fastest growing areas in the state for years. And the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley metro, home to Alabama’s beaches in Baldwin County, is outpacing communities…

Did you book it to Orange Beach for a gulf-side vacation last summer? If so, you were probably driving one of the 2.3 million vehicles that passed over the Foley Beach Express toll bridge, earning the city over $1 million in that four-month period…

When a Baldwin County mother learned her teenage son with autism had threatened to kill himself at school, she knew the clock was ticking to find him professional help. “We called and called and called. Nobody could get him in,” said Adrienne Davis,…

Meghan Burch, 25, is more than familiar with the Gulf Coast arts scene. She grew up on the Eastern Shore “consumed” with artwork, and today, she works at Dr. Music, a record store in Downtown Fairhope, and is a tattoo apprentice. She often sells her…

Alabama Gulf Coast cities have been getting a lot of attention over the last several years for their work in restoring storm-ravaged beaches and dunes with the help of money from federal and state initiatives. Members of one small coastal community,…

While officials in Mobile and Biloxi argue over whether it is legal to transport homeless people across state lines, local advocates say they continue to focus on the mission of helping the most vulnerable people in their communities. “We don’t want…

On a midsummer afternoon 110 years ago, officials in Mobile unveiled a statue of Rev. Abram Joseph Ryan in front of what used to be St. Joseph’s Church. One city commissioner, Pat J. Lyons, described Ryan as a beloved poet and priest whose writing…