Mobile AL

PRICHARD, Ala. (WALA) - A stray bullet grazed a 4-year-old girl just steps away from her house. Randji Hansell and her daughter were walking home from the store around 3:00 Monday afternoon when gunfire erupted. “Some dudes were walking down the street coming this way where we were walking to...

Video above: WKRG News 5’s Debbie Williams reports from Foley, Alabama, at a scene with heavy police presence (from an earlier newscast). UPDATE (5:20 p.m.): News 5 has learned more about an incident on Linda Court in Foley. The Foley Police Department is investigating a shooting in the 500 Block of Linda Court in...

A new multi-year, multi-phase program has officially started in the Port of Mobile. Demolition is underway at Pier B South, starting a $100 million effort to modernize the Port of Mobile’s general cargo terminal. The current pier was first built in the 1920s, serving for nearly a century. “Pier...

PRICHARD, Ala. (NBC 15) — The United Concerned Citizens Of Prichard will be hosting a town hall meeting to ensure transparency for the residents. Mr. John Young, the court-appointed receiver, will be present to provide an update on talks with MAWSS, available options, and potential outcomes regarding improved rates.

Marietta Johnson’s Test-Free School Revolution in Fairhope. In 1907, a small cottage on Church Street in Fairhope became ground zero for an education revolution. Minnesota teacher Marietta Johnson had moved to this Alabama utopian community with a bold idea: schools were doing it all wrong. She started with just...

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Dec. 8, 2025 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile woman who was previously arrested on a DUI charge has now been indicted by a grand jury on a charge of manslaughter in connection with a Christmas night crash in 2024. 52-year-old Angela Mae Waltman was arrested […]

A judge found that prosecutors have enough evidence to move forward with a murder charge against a Chickasaw man.

Video above: Violent crime statistics MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile Police Department officers arrested a local woman after she allegedly cut another woman during an argument, News 5 has learned. According to an MPD news release, officers were called to Bay Terrace Apartments around 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 9 for a report of...

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Dec. 8, 2025 MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — The Mobile County Commission has voted against a proposal to expand Chastang Sanitary Landfill. A proposal from Waste Management introduced in November would have nearly tripled the amount of trash allowed in the landfill and would...

Mobile Mayor Spiro Cheriogotis opened the week with a blunt warning: if negotiations over Government Plaza’s soaring rent don’t improve, the city might pack up and leave downtown. Speaking from his tenth-floor office at Government Plaza, the space the city has occupied since 1995, the mayor made clear...