Category Archives: Local News

Gov. Nathan Deal has vetoed a bill allowing parents to transfer legal authority for a child to a family member or an outside agency, urging lawmakers instead to focus on comprehensive changes to the state’s foster care…

Country music star Alan Jackson is selling his northern Georgia home for $6.4 million.

Historic Columbus launches its largest grant program yet. Grants ranging from $10,000-100,000 will be awarded to projects that will preserve, rehabilitate, restore, or increase accessibility to historic properties in the Muscogee County area.

Lynn Thrailkill, a fourth-grade teacher at Rosemont Elementary in Troup County, was named a recipient of the 180-educator award.

A total of 30 active duty and retired military members along with mid-shipmen from Auburn University’s NROTC set out on a four-day march from Auburn to Navarre, Florida.

A Columbus man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a murder from 2013.

A former member of The History’s Channel’s "Swamp People" cast is free on bond after being booked on 18 wildlife violations plus two drug charges.

A manhunt is underway in Auburn for a man wanted for robbery. 

Columbus Regional Health’s Board of Directors has unanimously voted to pursue a ‘strategic affiliation’ with Piedmont Healthcare.

Authorities say a suspect has been arrested in series of shooting attacks in Phoenix last year that left at seven people dead and two others wounded over a four-month period last year.