Mobile AL

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department responded to a fire that destroyed two portable toilets at Bienville Square in downtown Mobile on Tuesday afternoon. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Officials said no one was injured in the fire. No further information at this time.

For decades it has sat abandoned and forgotten. A two-story brick building on Congress Street in Downtown Mobile that once was an entertainment destination for Mobile's segregated African American community. But the increased appreciation for Mobile's black history has redevelopment projects swirling around the old...

Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch held a press conference Monday providing an update regarding the disappearance of a mother and her two children in south Alabama. The missing individuals have been identified as Aurelia Choc Cac De Tiul, 40, and her two children, Niurca Tiul Choc, 17, and Anthony Choc, 2.

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Mobile City Council is expected to take up a measure to appropriate $1.1 million a year to the District Attorney’s Office. It is the state’s responsibility to help fund Alabama’s local district attorney offices, but since the COVID-19 pandemic, District Attorney Keith Blackwood’s office has...

This past summer, I experienced a treat I didn’t expect would happen again in my lifetime. A covey of bobwhite quail made their summer home in the acreage around our […]

ROBERTSDALE, Ala (WKRG) — The City of Robertsdale officially has a new police chief. Veteran law enforcement officer Danny Steelman officially took the reins of the Robertsdale Police Department during a swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Jan. 30. Some of the top law enforcement officials gathered to honor him as he...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile Fire-Rescue Department officials responded to a house fire Monday afternoon. According to officials, firefighters arrived at the home on Ashley Drive just after 5 p.m., where they found a two-story home with heavy smoke coming out of it. Responders were able to cut a...

ROBERTSDALE, Ala. (WKRG) – A fire heavily damaged a home on Circle Drive in Robertsdale on Sunday evening. Robertsdale Volunteer Fire officials said fire crews were on scene within minutes of getting the call. When they arrived, firefighters found heavy flames coming from the front of the house. First responders tell...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Nearly six years after Theodore High School senior Devinee Rooney was killed in a multi-vehicle crash, her family continues fighting for tougher penalties in Alabama for impaired driving fatalities. The driver, Yaderik Madera-Morales, was convicted in 2022 of criminally negligent homicide and...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A proposed Alabama bill could significantly increase penalties for eluding or attempting to elude law enforcement. Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch told News 5 that deputies often must make quick decisions when drivers refuse to stop. “It’s one of those where you have to weigh all, all the...