Merchants Bank opened a new bank office in Mobile Friday, June 29. This is the bank's fifth location, its first outside of Clarke County. The temporary office is located at 877 Hillcrest Road in the Hillcrest Plaza in West Mobile. More...

Jack Greer, Clarke County Utilities superintendent, asked the county commission last week for increases to water consumption rates for the county water system. "Our suppliers have increased the cost of water to us," he said. More...

The Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge announces that the administrative office has been relocated to the refuge. A facility has been constructed at 509 Wildlife Road outside of Gilbertown. More...

"My children grew up with two parents, and it was hard….I can only imagine the problems of a single-parent family trying to put food on the table (and) manage a household," Judy Graham told Clarke County Board of Education members June 20. More...

Gulf Coast Cancer Centers will hold a free skin cancer screening for the public at its Monroeville office, located at 200 Rumbley Road on Thursday, July 19 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Gulf Coast Cancer Centers' physician Dr. William C. More...

Students at Alabama Southern are now invited to explore a new learning opportunity. Seven students who participated in the first full year of the Honors Program recently participated in a trip to Washington D.C. and New York City. More...

A once in a lifetime event recently took place when a Century Plant, at the McIntosh home of Hubert Bolen bloomed. Bolen could not recall exactly the year he put the plant out, but said he is "reasonably sure" it was between 1965 and 1970. More...