Category: News

Crews with the Georgia Department of Transportation will begin work this week to dismantle an 88-year-old bridge in Toccoa and replace it with a new one. On Thursday, GDOT crews will begin work along with construction partner Williams Contracting Company LLC on the bridge on SR 17A over Toccoa Creek. Construction is expected to take about four months, weather permitting. […]

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating an officer-involved shooting in Habersham County. The Habersham County Sheriff’s Office asked the GBI to conduct an independent investigation on Monday. One man was shot and died. No deputies were injured during this incident. GBI spokeswoman Nelly Miles tells WLHR News preliminary information indicates that the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office responded to a […]

Got junk? Mike and Frank from the History Channel TV show, American Pickers are coming to Georgia and they are looking for places to…well, pick. If you are one of those people who has a stash of stuff you’ve been accumulating for years…maybe a garage, shed or barn just crammed with things you’ve been collecting, then producers of the show […]

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is reporting an earthquake that happened early Tuesday morning in Hartwell. The quake measured as a 2.1 tremor around 6:30a Tuesday morning in the Reed Creek area. That was the second quake reported in Georgia in recent days. A 2.5 quake was reported Sunday near Jackson, Georgia, southeast of metro Atlanta. There was no […]

Efforts to recover the body of the pilot who crashed into Lake Hartwell over the weekend have been temporarily suspended by the NTSB. That’s according to Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland. According to the Sheriff, Hart County, and Oconee County, SC have turned the investigation over to the National Transportation Safety Board. Cleveland said Monday, the NTSB is working to […]