Allie Spillyards

Allie Spillyards joined NBC 5 in October 2017. She’s a general assignment reporter who often works out of Dallas or Collin county. You can usually catch her stories on NBC 5 at 10 p.m.

Allie is a North Texas native who was born and raised in Wylie.

She’s made several stops in the southeast, working most recently at WIS in Columbia, SC where she anchored weekend mornings and covered general news. While in Columbia, she reported on the tragic shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston and followed the controversy over removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House grounds. She also covered the historic flooding in October 2015 that destroyed hundreds of homes and left 17 people dead.

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Prior to South Carolina, Allie worked as a reporter at WCNC in Charlotte, NC.

She started her career at WVLT in Knoxville, TN as a general assignment reporter. She then helped launch a weekend morning newscast as an anchor before moving to weekday mornings.

In 2017, Allie was awarded a fellowship to train in computer assisted reporting with Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.

Allie’s a proud graduate of the University of Missouri where she learned her way around a newsroom at KOMU both on and off air. She has a bachelor’s in journalism and a minor in political science. While there, Allie spent a semester in Brussels, Belgium as an intern at Reuters.

Now that she’s back in North Texas, Allie lives in Dallas with her husband, Blake, and their spoiled rotten rescue pup, Roux. She’s thrilled to be back home, telling stories from familiar communities and reporting news that impacts friends, family and neighbors.

The Latest

Dallas 8 hours ago

Yella Beezy arrested, accused of orchestrating Mo3's 2020 murder

Dallas rapper Yella Beezy, whose real name is Markies Conway, has been indicted and arrested for capital murder in connection to the 2020 freeway shooting of fellow rapper Mo3. Prosecutors allege Conway hired a gunman in the fatal attack.

texas 8 hours ago

Texas becomes launchpad for THC delivery as hemp ban advances

Texas is the first state where the parent company of Edible Arrangements is launching a new THC delivery service—just as lawmakers move to ban hemp-derived products. NBC 5’s Allie Spillyards reports on the legal battle, business backlash, and what’s next for consumers.

texas 14 mins ago

Texas is first state for launch of THC delivery from Edibles.com as hemp ban advances

Texas will become the first state for the launch of a new kind of delivery service from the parent company of Edible Arrangements. Starting Friday, Edibles.com is delivering THC products across the Lone Star State. Edibles.com is launching while it’s still legal to sell hemp-derived THC in Texas—but that could change soon. A bill to ban products containing any...