Wetumpka News

There's no excuse with weather this nice to keep scanning your gym membership key ring tag to get in a walk or jog on the treadmill.

The Southern Miss coaches have been very busy on the recruiting trail. One player they've been watching closely is a lineman from Wetumpka, Alabama, Christian Williams.

As the 2013 queen of La Fete enjoys her first Mother's Day with family, she is doing so with memories of the past year that signaled the birth of her 7-month-old daughter, Izzy, and the simultaneous planning of a recent celebration where hundreds saw the super-creative Montgomery woman take center stage at the mystic society's 54th annual ball.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. For Auburn native Stephen Kennedy, a stroke of bad luck turned out to make his day in the third day of the 2013 Bassmasters Elite Series Alabama River Charge on Saturday.

The body of a Wetumpka man was found Saturday morning in the Tallapoosa River following a search that began Thursday afternoon.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The new state operating budget approved by the Alabama Legislature will mean hiring for one area of government and layoffs for another.

Mother Jones has named Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka one of the 10 worst prisons in the nation.

A search is currently underway in Tallassee for a missing man 27-year-old man who police believe somehow ended up in the Tallapoosa River.

Authorities are searching for a 28-year-old Wetumpka man who went missing while fishing on the Tallapoosa River Thursday afternoon.

It's graduation day for people like Nathan Runion. Runion along with more than 70 of his fellow recruits spent 12 weeks qualifying to become state corrections officers.

Keith Poche remembers the early years of tournament fishing and how one of his first trips was to Lowndes County near White Hall, launching his boat into the Alabama River from Holy Ground Battlefield Park.

The nationwide event was localized to take place around noon on Thursday in various cities.

The Wetumpka City Council approved a professional services contract with CPM LLC.

With 24 pounds, 14 ounces of largemouth bass weighed over two days and a Bassmaster Elite Series lead in hand, Aaron Martens had good reason to feel he had a handle on West Point Lake bass.

Authorities are confirming to WSFA 12 News that a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle Thursday afternoon on U.S. Highway 231 in Wetumpka.

In the Elmore County Historical Society Museum, a display case of items celebrating the life of Florence Golson Bateman sits in front of an empty wall.

As severe weather heads toward Elmore County, Eric Jones heads from his office on Hill Street about less than half a mile to a room in the basement of the old Elmore County Courthouse used to coordinate emergency response.

One of the state's largest sinkholes is in Calera in Shelby County. It opened in the 1970s.

More than 150 children got the chance to see Wetumpka from a different perspective Saturday -- more than 1,000 feet in the air.

The group is pretty young and have only been around for about a year, but despite that the group says they are determined to help women and children.