Mobile AL

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Dick Russell’s Bar-B-Q, a Mobile restaurant that spent 45 years serving the community, is holding an estate sale spanning two days ahead of its permanent closure. Earlier today, the now-closed restaurant sold kitchen equipment and small wares to local restaurant owners and managers. The public...

MOBILE, Ala. — Franklin Primary Health Center will celebrate National Health Center Week, August 2–8, 2026, with three free community health and resource fairs, a virtual mental health presentation and activities recognizing the patients, employees and community partners who support its mission. This year’s celebration

SARALAND, Ala. (WKRG) — An injured owl landed in a woman’s yard in Saraland, and you might be surprised who came to the rescue. Officers with the Saraland Police Department. “I wasn’t real sure who to call, so I called Saraland. They are always my go-to people up here,” said Denise Stafford, the woman who […]

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from July 30, 2026 ROBERTSDALE, Ala. (WKRG) — The 28th Annual Jennifer Claire Moore Foundation Professional Rodeo returns for three nights of professional rodeo competition and family-friendly fun to help raise money for youth mental health and resiliency programs in Baldwin Coun

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Whistler woman pleaded not guilty to child enticement and drug charges. Prosecutors allege 52-year-old Voncille King tried to lure a 12-year-old child into an apartment for a sexual act on Friday. King also faces cocaine and marijuana possession charges stemming from a separate incident on...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A judge on Thursday held a no-show witness in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena to testify at a capital murder trial in June. Mobile County prosecutors have said that Jamia Zabri Campbell’s failure to testify was one factor leading charges to be dismissed against Julian Demond Woods,

PRICHARD, Ala. (WALA) - In the wake of the latest police officer to be arrested on criminal charges, Mayor Carletta Davis on Thursday said she does not want to make snap decisions about the long-term future of the Police Department. During the wide-ranging news conference, the mayor also addressed her...

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — A woman says she lost $3,000 after scammers posing as a federal judge and an attorney convinced her they could secure her husband’s release from immigration custody.  Amanda Ruano said the whole ordeal began after her husband was arrested in Orange Beach during a family vacation in an immi

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A new billboard along a Mobile interstate is putting a fresh face on a nearly 44-year-old missing persons case, one the family says was never officially reported to law enforcement. Diana Avera disappeared from Searcy Hospital in Mount Vernon in 1982. Her family says she had...

FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WKRG) — More than a century after Fairhope’s oldest hotel first welcomed guests, the Fairhope Hotel is opening its doors once again following an extensive restoration. A ribbon-cutting ceremony held Thursday afternoon marked the grand reopening of the historic property, celebrating a new chapter for a b