Mobile brewing company to hold Mardi Gras kick-off party, tower lighting
Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Jan. 2, 2026 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile brewing company is holding its annual Mardi Gras kick-off party on Jan. 5. Braided River Brewing Company is hosting the 12th Night Mardi Gras Kickoff Party and RSA Tower Lighting starting at 4 p.m. A countdown to […]
Mobile Mystery Dinners’ “The Mardi Gras murder of Montigue Charlington”
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Dinner, drinks, laughter, plot twists, and LIVE whodunit theater — all set in the heart of Mobile’s Mardi Gras magic. Bring your detective hat — or your crown — and get ready to solve the mystery before someone else gets crowned… or… well… buried.
Three high-profile cases are set to go to trial Monday in Mobile County
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - An alleged drug kingpin, a man and woman accused of abuse and sex crimes against children and a man charged with capital murder. Three high-profile cases out of Mobile County are on the dockets to start trial on January 5, 2026. Glennie McGee is choosing to...
Hwy. 59 and other Baldwin County road projects set to begin
Robertsdale, Ala. (WALA) - We have a road construction alert for you in Baldwin County. Highway crews there will begin work on two road projects next week which may impact your travel. One is a County Road but the other is busy Highway 59. “They have been needing to do...
Mobile police celebrate safe and crime-free New Year’s Eve MoonPie event
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) – The Mobile Police Department reported a successful start to the new year with no major incidents during the annual MoonPie Over Mobile New Year’s Eve celebration downtown. 2026 for the Port City kicked off with around 6,000 people gathering to see a 600-pound moon pie falling from the sky, but...
Two-vehicle crash on Old Pascagoula Road kills 2, injures 2 juveniles
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Two people were killed and two juveniles were injured following a crash on Old Pascagoula Road that occurred on Friday, Jan 2, according to law enforcement. Officials said Mary Vise, 71, of Citronelle, and Clifford Stokes, 51, of Theodore, were fatally injured when their vehicles collided...
Mobile rings in 2026 with annual MoonPie drop
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The MoonPie over Mobile dropped at midnight, ringing in the 2026 new year. “It’s the New Year’s. We bringing in 2026,” said one woman anticipating the night. But the festivities started much earlier, with Mayor Spiro Cheriogotis getting the crowd at the Renaissance Riverview Hotel hyped with...
County Road 55 in Baldwin County to close temporarily
Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Jan. 2, 2026 BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — The Baldwin County Highway Department is warning drivers that one county road will be impassable for a short time. Part of County Road 55, between County Road 48 and County Road 34, will be closed to through traffic […]
Mobile mayor says Loop repaving is hint of $17 million in new street repairs...
Since she moved from Los Angeles to Midtown Mobile five years ago, Walker Ladd has driven long Airport Blvd. at the Loop hundreds of times. And like many Mobilians who use that route between the Government Street cannon and the railroad tracks, she has a certain way of doing it.
Trinity Gardens man becomes Mobile’s first homicide victim of 2026
Just two days into the new year, and Mobile already has its first homicide. It happened around two this afternoon, at a small neighborhood store in the Trinity Garden's community. And it happened only six blocks away from where a man received minor wounds in a shooting on New Year's...

















