Georgia News

It’s been 40 years since Smokey & The Bandit was the second largest grossing movie of 1977, and the City of Jonesboro celebrated in a big way over the weekend.

AAA forecasts more Americans will travel this Independence Day than ever before with 44.2 million (1.3 million Georgians) taking to the nation’s roads, skies, rails and waterways.

When voters cast ballots for state representatives last fall, millions of Americans - many of them in Georgia - essentially had no choice: In 42 percent of all such elections, candidates faced no major party opponents.

Georgia has concluded a year-long review of physician sexual misconduct cases brought to light by an Atlanta newspaper with a plan to educate doctors.

A pair of new paved trails are coming to Tribble Mill Park in Lawrenceville, with Gwinnett commissioners giving the move a final vote of approval this week.

New details have come to light related to skeletal remains found near New Salem Methodist Church in Banks County on Feb. 5.

A 39-year-old man accused of shooting a former Gainesville resident on an Atlanta street in broad daylight has been indicted.

Lawrenceville Police have charged the truck driver involved in an eight-vehicle pile up on Ga. 316 that killed a Winder woman and injured 17 others June 12.

Officials in Sugar Hill have released the tentative concept plans for a new "passive park" coming along the Ga. 20 corridor.

The identities of the officers and citizens involved in an exchange of gun fire in East Hall County have come to light in a Georgia Bureau of Investigation document obtained by AccessWDUN.