Category Archives: Local News

The fourth annual Grand Columbus Whitewater Paddle is taking place in the Fountain City with over 1,500 paddlers going down the Chattahoochee River all day Saturday as the largest weekend of whitewater rafting. 

Multiple news outlets are reporting the suspect police say drove over multiple people at a white-supremacist is James Alex Fields Jr., of Maumee, Ohio and he is facing multiple charges including second-degree murder.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office has arrested three men on charges of attempted murder and reckless endangerment after shooting at a police officer. 

An Opelika man has died from a gunshot injury according to the Lee County Coroner’s Office. 

Charlottesville’s mayor has confirmed that one person has died after a car plowed into a group of protesters in Charlottesville during the ‘Unite the Right’ rally on Saturday.

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After completing a ten thousand mile trip over the course of 21 days, Scott Ressmeyer and the Miracle Riders are back in the Fountain City.  

If you are wanting to lay out and relax in your hammock next to the Chattahoochee River you are now in luck. The city of Columbus is installing a hammock park, located between Woodruff Park and the Dillingham

People in Columbus are piling into the City Services Building to file last minute appeals on their soon-rising property taxes with just a few days until the deadline. 

The Heart of West Georgia presented a check in the amount of $30,000 to The Thread to cover the cost of replacing exercise devices that are located within Granger Park.