City of Fairhope eager and excited for annual New Year's Eve celebration Friday

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - South Baldwin Newcomers Club is hosting our largest fundraiser of the year, Friday, Feb 10 from 6-10 pm at the Orange Beach Events Center. The event is “Casino on the Coast”. Tickets are $70 each or $100 each for VIP tickets. Your ticket includes dinner, drinks, gaming, a chance at a $5000 drawdown, a silent auction, and a raffle.

FOLEY, Ala. (WALA) - If you love good food and good music, Foley is the place to be this weekend. The Gumbo & Alabama Slammer Festival gets underway Saturday at Heritage Park. The event will feature many kinds of gumbo, ranging from classic recipes to unique creations with some unexpected ingredients. Also featured will be a gumbo cookoff, craft beer from Fairhope Brewing Company, live music, and crafts.

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Vietnamese New Year Festival starts at 11 a.m. on January 29, 2023 to 11 p.m. Download the FOX10 Weather App. Get life-saving severe weather warnings and alerts for your location no matter where you are. Available free in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Terrency Spivey, writer and director of the play “An Ocean in My Bones” previews the play. “In Ocean in My Bones” is inspired by the Clotilda slave ship story. “An Ocean in My Bones” premiered at the 2022 Spirit of Our Ancestors festival in the Africatown neighborhood of Mobile. A reworked version of the play, presented by the Clotilda Descendants Association, will make its debut this February at the Festival.

GULF SHORES, Ala. (WALA) - In just over a month, Baldwin County beaches will be filling with spring breakers and the Gulf Shores wants to remind its visitors that alcohol will not be allowed on the beach. This will be the eighth year the city has enforced the ordinance. As...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The History Museum of Mobile is set to open its newest exhibit “Dressing the Abbey” -- featuring 35 costumes worn by the actors in the TV series “Downton Abbey.” FOX 10′s Lee Peck got a sneak peek of the exhibit and also a rare behind the scenes look at the museum’s vault, where they store their collection.

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The ninth annual project homeless connect event took place Friday morning. The event provided free services to homeless people across our area. Services available included legal assistance, housing, and employment. And it took a team effort to get it done. “It has built on itself and...

MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) - Mobile County just finished its first phase of a project at Bayfront Park. It’s called a “pocket beach”, and it is nestled near Dauphin Island. About a mile North of the Dauphin Island Bridge, Bayfront Park has been a favorite spot for...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - North Baldwin Infirmary in Bay Minette is designated a baby-friendly facility. McKenzie Benton and Christa Rudat with North Baldwin Infirmary Birth Center visited the FOX10 News Studios. They sat down with Lenise Ligon to discuss what the designation means, keys to successful breastfeeding and the unique factors of North Baldwin Infirmary that benefit mothers who deliver there.

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Clotilda and Africatown stories will be brought to life featuring the stories of the slave ship Clotilda and Africatown. This short stage highlight titled “An Ocean in My Bones,” was developed by playwright and award-winning director Terrence Spivey. Tune into Perspectives with Eric...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A bright young man used the words of Martin Luther King Jr. and transformed them into a poem. Noah Berry, 13, won a poetry contest with the Lavretta Arts Center, called the ‘I Have a Dream Speech for Today.’. As only a 7th grader, his...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - It was a pleasant day on the Gulf Coast today with mostly sunny skies and cooler temperatures. Another nice day is expected tomorrow, but Sunday looks to bring a change as our next weather system will bring a more unsettled pattern to the area. Tonight, expect...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Even though Mobile doesn’t have a cruise ship in port right now… . that doesn’t mean the cruise terminal is empty. The City has been making up lost revenue by renting the space out. (SOT: Joe Snowden, Executive Director of Administrative Services for...

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (WALA) - If you are looking to find a job, Flora-Bama is holding an onsite job fair this weekend. The job fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at the venue’s tent stage. According to Flora-Bama, they are seeking to add more than 200 positions for the spring-summer season.

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WALA) - The Pensacola International Airport will begin work next week to replace one of two airport escalators. According to a release, the upgrade is being done to improve facilities and enhance the overall travel experience for Pensacola residents and visitors. More upgrades are in the works, as...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Austal, Mobile’s largest employer, says it plans to hire about 1,200 new employees over the next year. To further that goal, Austal is hosting a job fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. According to the company, training for these jobs will be provided.

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - An iconic piece of art was defaced over the weekend in Downtown Mobile. MPD is now looking for two suspects after surveillance video shows one of them kicking over an oyster sculpture in Bienville Square. Ginger Woechan is the artist of the oyster, and she says...

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) - The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to be on the lookout for a 2006 Sunnybrook travel trailer taken from the Bay Minette-Stapleton area on Jan. 13. The trailer does not have a tag and the direction of travel when it was...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WALA) - A man in Pensacola has died after he drove his car off of a bridge, according to police. Police said the man was traveling north on Bob Sikes Fishing Pier when his car crashed into a concrete barrier and fell into the water. The man succumbed...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Interstate 10 toll bridge project across the Mobile Rive took another step forward. On Tuesday, the Alabama Toll Road, Bridge and Tunnel Authority approved a resolution authorizing the Alabama Department of Transportation to start negotiations. Two teams of companies have expressed interest in the toll...