It's one of the easiest budgets to cut, but Augusta Arts Council Executive Director Brenda Durant says the city's funding is one-third of the council's operating costs and is vital to festivals like Arts in the Heart.
As News 12 reported Monday, the Richmond County Sheriff's Office says abandoned buildings can be hotspots for crime. Now we show you why holding the property owners accountable for securing the area is a challenge.
Keith Brown's name won't appear on the ballot in November, but he'll remain a commissioner until January unless the Augusta Commission votes him out of office.
The Aiken County Sheriff's Office needs your help to find a man who they say fled from a burglary. Yesterday, deputies went to Avondale Mills responding to a burglary in progress...
27-year-old Sandy Dawn Akin is accused of robbing the Family Dollar stores on Sand Bar Ferry Road and Broad Street, along with a convenience store in Harrisburg.
Thursday, the Board of Elections weighed the legal issues and decided Keith Brown does not meet all the requirements to run for the city Commission in November.
It's the last thing you'd expect to find in a dumpster: a live grenade that's used strictly by the Army. So how did it wind up in an Augusta storage unit?
Keith Brown and Alvin Mason sat face to face in the Augusta Commission chamber along with their attorneys, prepared to prove their case before the Board of Elections.
The Richmond County Board of Education has their thoughts on your pennies, and the SPLOST projects were the topic of their 5 o'clock meeting today.
With three armed robberies in two days, it seems that Richmond County's convenience stores and restaurants look like easy targets for thieves. But investigators say there are ways store owners can deter crime like this.
Can James Brown's name save Augusta's Civic Center? And will the name change ever get off the drawing board?
Georgia governor Sonny Perdue was in Augusta today launching an initiative to improve the state's workforce.
The Richmond County Sheriff's Office has released information about the suspects in a deadly hit and run accident. 56-year-old Charles Johnson was hit near the intersection of Third and Watkins Friday night.
Georgia farmers should be in for some federal relief. The US Department of Agriculture granted Gov. Perdue's request to declare most of the state a drought disaster area.
24-year-old Joseph Thomas Webb was arrested early Tuesday morning when he tried to break into the Triangle convenience store.
Just before 10 o'clock Tuesday evening, deputies responded to a robbery at the Windsor Package Shop on Windsor Spring Road.
Officers have reached a possible roadblock in their investigation into who took confidential documents from Evans Middle School.
Don't cash that check. That's the message the government is sending some 230,000 Medicare recipients after they were mistakenly reimbursed for premiums they paid for prescription drug coverage.
The Georgia Office of Consumer Affairs put out an alert warning people going online to watch out for some California companies that promote movie downloads over the Internet.
The campaign for Augusta's mayor swung into full gear Tuesday night. All four men running for the seat answered questions from the voters in an event in south Augusta.
Two people have been arrested in Aiken County after the sheriff's office found five video poker machines.
Police say just before 2 o'clock Wednesday morning, a man entered a Waffle House on Deans Bridge Road and demanded money.
There was an armed robbery at the Triangle store at the intersection of Deans Bridge Road and Willis Forman Road Tuesday night. Investigators tell News 12 the suspect came in demanding money at around 8:30.
Tuesday, Gov. Perdue announced more than $37 million in federal grants from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Grants to local areas add up to more than $4,280,000.
He's got a street, a statue, and soon the Augusta Civic Center will bear his name. The Coliseum Authority voted Tuesday to rename the civic center to the James Brown Arena.
