Category Archives: Local News

May McDaniel starts her journey of hiking the Appalachian trail March 16. The 71-year old plans to walk the entire trail. She will begin the hike in Georgia, and end at Mount Katahdin in Maine. 

Calling all seafood lovers! A local seafood restaurant has officially opened in Columbus.

Uptown Columbus is popular among locals, it’s also popular among small businesses. 

The Columbus Police Department Homicide Unit are hosting a press conference Thursday afternoon. 

When a 14-year-old baseball player traveled to south Arkansas to play on a diamond, little did he know he would leave with one.

Krispy Kreme is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with its green original glazed doughnuts. The doughnut chain is changing the name of its iconic Original Glazed to O’riginal Glazed and bringing back its specially formulated green dough. 

Opelika police have made an arrest in connection to a murder on Edmon Avenue on Sept. 27, 2016. Deangelo Edwards, 26, of Opelika was arrested on March 15 and charged with murder. 

Diverse Power has confirmed that hundreds of homes are without power in north Columbus and the surrounding areas. 

It is a community effort to help bring relief to those who may not have a warm place to stay. Bracing for the colder weather, The Verge Church is acting as a safe place and warming shelter for

COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – Police are investigating a shooting that has left one person injured on Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard.  Officers say the shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. They say a man was shot in the