Augusta GA

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Agents with the Homeland Security Investigations conducted a federal search warrant at a home on Andover Lane in Richmond County on Thursday morning. The details of the warrant are unknown at this time, but we do know the HSI was assisted by the Georgia Bureau of...

Columbia County Water Utility wishes to inform the driving public of intermittent temporary lane closures on Harlem Grovetown Road due to utility installation.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The Richmond County Marshal’s Office is working to make Thanksgiving brighter some families − and you’re being asked to help. The Richmond County Marshal’s Office Charitable Fund is holding its eighth turkey drive in an effort to provide Thanksgiving meals to 65 families.

LEXINGTON, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - An Augusta man was sentenced to 25 years in a South Carolina prison after a jury found him guilty of trafficking a large quantity of methamphetamine. Angelo Xzavier Allen, 41, was convicted Oct. 8 of trafficking methamphetamine, 400 grams or more, in Lexington County. Circuit Court...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) — Downtown Augusta’s Broad Street improvement project is making steady progress, but it’s also bringing new temporary changes. Garbage collection is being affected on Broad Street from James Brown Boulevard to Eighth Street. Residents and businesses in that stretch must now roll their carts to temporary pickup points on Ellis Street or Reynolds Street.

Stan Byrdy was Sports Director at WJBF from 1985 to 1994 and remained on the station's Masters Tournament coverage team through 2002. He later served as Sports Director at WAGT-TV in Augusta from 2006 to 2009.

A fire at a federal nuclear complex in South Carolina triggered an emergency declaration on Wednesday evening, though officials said there was no indication of contamination beyond the site’s boundaries. A fire was reported at the Savannah River Site’s national laboratory in Aiken, but has since been extinguished, according to SRS. Officials declared a Site […]

AIKEN, S.C. (WJBF) — The City of Aiken is considering changes to its traffic ordinance that could require developers to do more to address traffic and pedestrian safety. The proposed changes would lower the threshold for requiring a traffic study from 100 to 50 trips during morning or evening peak hours. “Typically what we were […]

AIKEN — The city of Aiken has moved one step closer toward establishing a homeless court. Aiken City Council unanimously approved a resolution at its Oct. 26 meeting to request the S.C. Supreme Court issue an order to create a homeless court. Nick McCarley, deputy public defender with the...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Construction at Augusta Regional Airport is on schedule for several projects, but the timeline for one project is undetermined, airport officials said. Airport Executive Director Herbert Judon said much of the work remains on track for holiday travel. The goals are parking by Thanksgiving, a hangar...