Category Archives: Local News

From brain development to parental bonding, Kangaroo Care, or skin to skin contact between a new born and its parent is helping babies in the Valley grow strong and healthy. 

A fire around noon on Friday destroyed one Columbus family’s entire kitchen while they made lunch.  Thankfully, everybody got out of the house safely without injuries.  The incident happened on the 900 block of Bethune Court.

It took months of preparation to get Hope and her mom Crystal ready for the public, but once you get out to see her, you’re in for a real treat. 

On Friday, May 6, 2016, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) arrested Taylor County’s Tax Assessor. 

The rare Mercury transit last happened in 2006. It’s an exciting event for spectators, and it also helped establish an important milestone in astronomy.

The Richland County Sheriff’s Department is saying no harm, no foul after a social media describing a Krispy Kreme employee who refused service to a deputy earlier this week.

The Georgia Department of Labor’s (GDOL) Columbus Career Center will help Hostess Brands, LLC recruit more than 40 workers on Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14. 

News Leader 9’s Jason Dennis takes a deep look into opioid addiction and its stranglehold on the Chattahoochee Valley and across the country in Ending the Epidemic. 

On Friday, May 6, 2016, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) arrested former a Harris County Sheriff’s Office Deputy. Thomas Carl Pierson, 38, was arrested on one count of sexual assault, one count of sexual battery, one

It’s a Georgia industry, we are 3rd in the country and 5th in the world. The economic impact to the state is $6 billion.