Author: MJ Kneiser

South Carolina Department of Transportation officials are asking for public input on a plan to replace and upgrade the state line bridge over Lake Hartwell. SC-DOT spokesperson Kimberly Corley says no further planning will be done on the project until they hear from the public. “There’s no funding attached to it yet because we are still in the public comment […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa In Stephens County, a person of interest is in custody and is being questioned in connection with an armed robbery overnight. It happened at the Dollar General store on Highway 106 in the New Hope community near the Franklin-Stephens County line. Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley said a man, armed with a handgun, held […]

It is Groundhog Day and General Beauregard Lee, Georgia’s official weather prognosticator, is once again predicting an early spring for us here in the south. General Lee came out of his Weathering Heights mansion at the Yellow River Game Ranch this morning and did not see his shadow. That means we can expect an early spring this year. And the […]

The House successfully passed the amended fiscal year (AFY 2016) budget, or the mid-year adjustment of state spending through June 30, 2016. The amended budget, HB 750, is very similar to Governor Deal’s recommendations, consisting of $1.1 billion, or 5.3 percent, in “new” funds, bringing the total appropriation for AFY 2016 to $22.9 billion with education and transportation funds account […]