Georgia News

In an effort to help ease the burden of purchasing food for low-income families affected by Hurricane Irma, the Division of Family and Children Services has released September’s allotment of food stamp benefits to all Georgia residents.

Even with the projected track of Hurricane Irma shifting farther to the west overnight, northeast Georgia is still under the gun for tropical storm conditions Monday and Tuesday.

State troopers turned Interstate 16 into a one-way escape route for a few hours Saturday as evacuees packed cars and fled the Georgia coast ahead of Hurricane Irma, which forecasters said could cause widespread damage in the state from storm surge near Savannah to toppled trees and power lines far inland in Atlanta.

With Hurricane Irma expected to make a pass through Northeast Georgia on Monday — as a tropical storm — officials are urging residents to be prepared for the worst.

Suwanee Fest officials say, less than a week before the event, they're still in need of volunteers for a variety of roles on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The latest projected path of Hurricane Irma has the storm shifted to the west, away from Gainesville and the rest of northeast Georgia, but that has only increased the likelihood of adverse weather in the region.

Georgia's state parks that have not been closed because of the threat from Hurricane Irma have been opened to storm evacuees free of charge.

Great uncertainty remained Friday about Hurricane Irma's path beyond Florida with forecasts showing potential storm impacts from portions of the Carolinas and Alabama as well as the entirety of Georgia, a state that's become an escape route for hundreds of thousands of evacuees.

Hall County emergency officials are keeping a close watch on the latest forecasts and what they might mean for Northeast Georgia.

Hall County officials are canceling their intended plans to shift paramedics from med units to fire trucks in an effort to maintain effective services across all county fire stations.