Rising Tides is an opinion column about Mobile. Today’s guest columnist is Larry Ryder. Twenty years ago, Austal USA started construction of its first Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship, the USS ...

Federal prosecutors have agreed to resolve criminal fraud charges against three former Austal USA executives in a way that ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- The littoral combat ship Independence was back at Austal USA today after heading out Thursday for a scheduled four days at sea. While lead contractor General Dynamics Corp. is ...

Austal USA, which builds littoral combat ships for the U.S. Navy, has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to pay a $24 million fine to settle an accounting fraud investigation. (G.M. Andrews/Press-Register ...

Littoral Combat Ship USS Pierre (LCS-38) is the 19th, and final, Independence-variant littoral combat ship constructed. Pierre is the third ship named in honor of South Dakota’s capital city, and the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Citing a law passed in the 19 th century, attorneys for three former executives of Austal USA argue that the evidence gathered in a years-long fraud investigation should be ...

The newest ship in the Navy, the USS Pierre, was commissioned Saturday in Panama City, Fla.: “Welcome to the fleet,” said Navy Secretary John Phelan, who gave the keynote address. Pierre is the 19th ...

“An experiment that didn’t work,” said another. And an expensive one. The price of the program is pegged at $60 billion, but a 2023 report from the investigative journalism site ProPublica said the ...