Mobile AL

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...

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Dec. 8, 2025 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A woman was injured after a three-car wreck in Mobile over the weekend. The wreck shut down Government Street between Georgia Avenue and Ann Street yesterday afternoon. The three cars involved and the clean-up shut down the street for […]

Video above: Is driving safer than other modes of transportation? MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A six-vehicle crash on Tuesday morning has left Interstate 65 Southbound down to two lanes. The crash happened near the Old Shell Road overpass. Mobile Police Department officers are on the scene. Officials said there is no word...