The newspaper known from 1997 to 2006 as the MOBILE REGISTER, till it changed its name to the PRESS-REGISTER, was serving the southwest Alabama counties of Mobile and Baldwin. The newspaper was a descendant of one founded in 1813, making the PRESS-REGISTER Alabama's oldest newspaper.
The MOBILE PRESS-REGISTER is no longer in circulation. In 2022, its owner Alabama Media Group announced it would shut down and cease all printing in 2023. The last printed edition of the PRESS-REGISTER was published on February 26, 2023.