Mobile AL

MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) - Theodore-Dawes Fire Rescue says on its Facebook page that a fire broke out at a home Sunday morning, and the home is considered a total loss. The post says firefighters battled an early-morning structure fire at a home in the 7700 block of Garden Grove Drive, where crews arrived to find hea

Heat wave breaking, still on alert for storms tonight and tomorrow.

UPDATE 10:00 AM: Mobile Police sent this update: Officers responded to a local hospital in reference to one shot in the area of South Bayou Street and Government Street. Upon arrival, officers discovered a juvenile male who was pronounced deceased. This remains an active investigation, and no further information will b

For decades, discriminatory practices kept many Black families from buying homes and building the kind of generational wealth homeownership can create. One South Bend nonprofit is working to close the racial homeownership gap created by those practices.

Baldwin County, Ala. — (GSN) — Limestone barges are currently traveling across Alabama to help restore oyster reefs in Mobile Bay. The effort is part of a major conservation project led by the Alabama Wildlife Federation and its partners. The rock, known as oyster cultch, will provide a hard surface for young oysters t

GRAND BAY, Ala. (WALA) - The Grand Bay Watermelon Festival is back for its 52nd year at Odd Fellows Festival Park, offering free sliced watermelon, fireworks, and family activities over the Fourth of July holiday. Sessions Farm is again supplying watermelons for the festival. A role that nearly fell through...

AAA is offering free rides and tows to impaired drivers this Fourth of July weekend through a program called Tow to Go. (Source: KCCI)

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from July 3, 2026 MOBILE, Ala (WKRG) – Mobile Fire-Rescue responds to a church fire on East Street Friday night that damaged to the building, according to an MFRD official. Fire-Rescue members were called to a fire at Yorktown Baptist Church on Friday night. When they got […]

UPDATE (9:50 p.m.) — WKRG News 5 spoke with a man who witnessed the police pursuit along Black Devine Road, moments before the motorcyclist crashed into another vehicle. Brian Doughtery was cutting grass when he saw a motorcycle fly past him. “The motorcyclist that was being pursued by the police officers literally pas

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A woman is describing the escape she and her husband made from their burning car on I-10. This all happened on the afternoon of July 2 on the Bayway heading westbound, where black smoke filled the air as flames covered the car. Autumn Caver said she...