Mobile AL

UPDATE (6 p.m.): News 5 spoke to several downtown Mobile residents and business owners, who said the smoke from the early morning barge fire had become overbearing. Michael Lanar was visiting his parents in downtown Mobile when he noticed the smoke while at a local coffee shop. “I was running down to Nova Espresso,...

MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) - One person died Monday morning when a car collided with an 18-wheeler at the intersection of Grand Bay Wilmer and Dawes roads. The crash happened around 9:25 a.m. and closed the intersection for more than five hours while Alabama Law Enforcement Agency troopers investigated. The...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A 49-year-old woman was arrested by Mobile police over the weekend after she allegedly vandalized several vehicles at the Mullinax Ford dealership on Airport Boulevard. Regina Stanley, of Mobile, was booked into Mobile County Metro Jail late Saturday morning, jail records show. According to the...

SPANISH FORT, Ala. (WKRG) — People had the chance to touch history this weekend as Blakeley State Park hosted its first Revolutionary War reenactment. “We are reenacting one of the two major Revolutionary War battles that occurred in the Mobile Bay area,” park director Mike Bunn said. Reenactors gathered Saturday and...

LOXLEY, Ala. — As state lawmakers and education leaders push Alabama to expand career and technical education as a way to build up workforce and economic development, Baldwin Preparatory Academy in South Alabama offers a glimpse of what the future might look like. Across the state, school districts have...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Emergency responders are on the scene of a deadly crash at the intersection of Grand Bay Wilmer and Dawes roads. The crash involved an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rig. It happened around 9:25 this morning. Witnesses said a vehicle collided with the 18-wheeler. The 18-wheeler was heading northbound...

FOLEY, Ala. (WALA) - The City of Foley has issued a news release saying it is installing more public safety cameras. FOLEY – Foley is expanding the municipal camera system at intersections and other locations to improve public safety in the city. The City Council voted recently to buy...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Heavy smoke could be seen from a barge in the Mobile River near the Cochrane-Africatown Bridge this morning. Emergency responders were quickly on scene to handle the apparent fire on the vessel. A fire boat sprayed jets of water onto the barge, and land-based fire crews were also dispatched to...

A woman and man were recently arrested in Alabama after leaving a 14-year-old girl to live alone in squalor with seven dogs, Yellowhammer State law enforcement say. Marchelle Pertilla, 43, and Eugene Medrano, 52, stand accused of one count each of child abuse and aggravated cruelty to animals, according to the Mobile...

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) - The Baldwin County Commission announced this week that a construction contract has been awarded to complete park improvements at the Lillian Recreation Center. Here is the release:. The Baldwin County Commission has awarded a construction contract to complete park improvements at the...