Kyle Hamrick

After the city of Mobile spent thousands on emergency repairs to three, long-vacant Dauphin Street buildings, the buildings’ owner said the bills caught him by surprise and he may need help paying them. The Mobile City Council held public hearings during its regular meeting Tuesday to “fix the costs” of making public safety fixes to 470 Dauphin Street, 661 Dauphin Street and 663 Dauphin Street earlier this year, all of which are owned by Walker Brothers Investments. kAmx?

Months after Alabama lawmakers authorized the expansion of the state’s Public Service Commission, and one day after incumbent commissioner Chris Beeker lost his primary runoff, Gov. Kay Ivey revealed Wednesday the four new commissioners who will join the regulatory board in 2027. The Public Service Commission, which reviews the rates Alabamians’ pay for electricity and other utilities, comprised three members before House Bill 475 became law earlier this year.

Mobile’s tree commissioners want to meet with city leaders over the recent removal of live oak trees near Michigan Avenue and I-10, which one commissioner described as “an atrocity” that should never happen again. In May, the city cut down a strip of live oaks in the street’s median just north of Interstate 10 to add a new turn lane for an unidentified economic development project involving the Mobile Airport Authority.