Joe Kovac

WAYCROSS — Gov. Brian Kemp praised firefighters and emergency workers in South Georgia who he said Friday are battling the two “most dangerous, biggest, problematic” wildfires in the United States.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday, for the second time in recent days, toured scorched and burning stretches of the state's drought-stricken

MACON — The job posting reads like a thesaurus of the otherworldly.

MACON — Nearly 60 years have passed since soul-singing legend Otis Redding died at age 26 in a December 1967 plane crash.

MACON — Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Tuesday he faced what he called an “active threat” after Bibb County's bomb squad was dispatched to a Macon campaign stop for his Republican bid for governor.

FORT BENNING — Inside a gray-carpeted room in a barn of a building that was once this Army base's credit union, it is quiet as a vault.

The walls of the “Hall of Heroes” at Georgia's Fort Benning are lined with photos of deceased U.S. soldiers. Alonzo Stewart comforts the families who visit the sanctum.

More than a month after smoky haze from South Georgia wildfires drifted across the state to Atlanta, twin blazes are still burning despite being mostly contained.

Despite recent rain, twin South Georgia wildfires continue to burn more than a month after they began consuming tens of thousands of acres between Valdosta and Atlantic coast.

EATONTON — As the mystery surrounding the high-profile 2014 killings of a Lake Oconee husband and wife stretches past the 12-year mark, the sheriff