Rob Moore

The nation’s only long-distance hot air balloon race lifted off at 7 a.m. from Wilkins Field in Helen.

Power and phone service to traffic signals and businesses along U.S. 441 in the Banks Crossing area has been mostly restored after nearly five hours.

A suspicious activity call resembling a kidnapping at Pitts Park in Clarkesville turned out to be a man helping a sick friend.

A Cornelia man remains jailed, charged with aggravated child molestation.

A North Carolina man is charged in Monday’s fatal wreck at Jeanette Jamieson Intersection near Toccoa.

Authorities have released the name of the man who drowned in Lake Lanier on Sunday afternoon

Tucked away behind gates at the end of a paved road in Cherokee County is the hallowed resting place of thousands of Georgia veterans.

It’s been 45 years since the movie opened in theaters, but Smokey is still trying to catch the Bandit.

UPDATE: The missing girl has been found safe.

Habersham County officials have charged the father of a female student with assaulting a 17-year-old boy at a church near the Habersham Ninth Grade Academy Wednesday morning.