Mobile AL

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A man is dead following a stabbing this afternoon in the 7500 block of Old Pascagoula Road. Officer Roderick Miles, a Mobile Police Department spokesman, said officers were called to the scene around 4:30 p.m. He said the victim and the suspect knew each other, but it is unclear what led to the...

FOLEY, Ala. (WALA) - The Baldwin County Commission posted on its Facebook page updates on work on turning lanes in the county. The first phase—adding turn lanes on Michigan St (CR 26)—is nearly complete, and crews will soon begin work on phase II adding new turn lanes along Hickory St.

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Nov. 14, 2025 BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — County Road 64 at the Styx River Bridge in Baldwin County will close next week as crews perform inspections and maintenance on the bridge, according to a Baldwin County Highway Department news release. According to the release,...

SUMMERDALE, Ala. (WKRG) — Solid Waste Disposal Authority of Baldwin County opened its new “Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials” facility during its “America Recycles Day” celebration on Saturday. “Today we have the grand opening of our Magnolia “CHaRM” facility, which is adjacent to our new material recovery...

On November 13, 2025, the Mobile Area Water & Sewer System (MAWSS) responded to a sanitary sewer overflow at 2910 Richmond Drive in Mobile, Alabama. The overflow was caused by a grease blockage. About 3,680 gallons of wastewater entered Hamilton Creek. MAWSS crews have cleared the blockage and are taking steps to...

Henry Stuart welcomed famed attorney Clarence Darrow inside his hand-built concrete hut six times, meetings of an eclectic storyteller and the iconic lawyer who defended a teacher accused of teaching evolution in the Scopes “Monkey” Trial. Nearly a century later, the odd-shaped igloo that inspired a novel and...

MOBILE, Ala. (WSFA) - The Alabama State Hornets started with a single sting against rival Mississippi Valley State in the first quarter. Then, there was another in the second, sending ASU to the locker room up 13-0. By the game’s end, it was a swarm, with a particularly brutal third coming out of halftime in which...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - When Steve Chard dipped the blade of his kayak paddle into the waters of Ontario on July 16, he knew he wasn’t just beginning a long trip—he was committing to an odyssey. More than four months later, that journey has carried him down rivers, along coastlines, through unpredictable wind and...

A German stainless steel manufacturing company building its North American headquarters in Loxley celebrated the start of its construction project Thursday by planting a tree. The moment of environmental sustainability underscored Butting USA’s commitment to Loxley in what it called a “symbolic rooting ceremony.”....

The second annual Perinatal Conference took place on November 7, 2025, at the DePaul Center of USA Health Providence Hospital in Mobile, Alabama. Csierra Payne, RN, from the Alabama Department of Public Health, and Yvonne Baynard, RN, from the Mobile County Health Department, organized the event. More than 75...