The taxes can add up to $60 or more on a $300 round-trip ticket.

Earlier this week, News 12 took you on a tour of a cutting edge facility at SRS that has grand ideas for the future. The goal is to invest in hydrogen fuel, which could one day replace gasoline. Many believe that this facility in Aiken County could also be rescuing the American economy.

Aiken County residents should be receiving their notice that real property reassessments will be implemented.

Congress went home Friday without averting a partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration. As a result, more than 4,000 FAA employees were furloughed, including about 330 in metro Atlanta.

The debt debate continues to go on in Washington. A Georgia congressman tells News 12 that there's a lot of scare tactics out there right now.

Masonite is opening another facility in Denmark, while Bridgestone is expanding its plant.

Safe Kids East Central and Georgia State Troopers want to give your child (and wallet) a boost. In the next couple of weeks, they will be giving out booster seats free of charge.

Savannah River Site is a huge economic player for the CSRA. If it falters in the next decade, our economy could take a costly hit. The DOE's top man at SRS sits down with News 12. He says the future out there is a bright one.

Because of lax policies, stores have watch some customers grab groceries cheap.

Two bridal boutiques in South Carolina are offering military brides a chance to get free wedding gowns.

As the national debt increases second by second, time is running out to approve a plan that would prevent this country from exceeding its debt limit. News 12 sat down with a local U.S. Congressman for answers.

The grant of $1.5 million will create jobs by providing improvements that will bring a new advanced technology manufacturing firm to the area.

Deal signed an executive order freezing the gas tax at current levels.

Several local communities are getting some national attention and made a magazine's list of the 50 best master-planned communities in the U.S. One of them is Riverwood Plantation, in Columbia County.

The Aiken Housing Authority debuts their Center For Excellence on Thursday. It features new computers and new software designed to help people with new job opportunities.

The Charlie Norwood VA is reaching out to local veterans with a job fair Thursday, June 9, 2011. They're wanting those who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation New Dawn to drop by from 10 am to 2 pm to see what's available to them.

Pictures are priceless, but the cameras you take them with can be expensive. You can spend a lot of money on them, but now there's a way they can make money.

Wannabe welders at Augusta Tech fuse metal to metal at a blinding 3000 degrees. But for those soon-to-be graduates, there's something else exploding -- available jobs.

Columbia County leaders approve a budget that, for the second year in a row... lowers taxes. Columbia County schools may be raising taxes, but it looks like county commissioners can help cut that tax increase in half.

A lot of you are probably eating breakfast right now, and if you're like me, it's a quick bowl of cereal. I like cereal, but how do eggs, hash browns, bacon, sausage and pancakes sound? If your answer is, "expensive," you'll love this: it's all free.

Have you ever gotten a gift card and thought, "wow, I really appreciate this, but I sure could use that money to pay the bills?" Soon, you can.

All you have to do to live free of charge in the volunteer village on J. Strom Thurmond Lake at Clarks Hill is volunteer your time.

The nationwide housing index fell for the eighth month in a row. And the picture isn't pretty here in the CSRA either. Local numbers show fewer homes are selling this year compared with 2010.

In a time when jobs seem to be hard to come by, how does this sound? More than 50 of them are up for grabs at a job fair Wednesday, and companies are looking to hire you on the spot.

Farmers say Georgia's new immigration law could scare away illegal immigrant migrant workers. They say that could have an impact on agricultural productivity.