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EVANS, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Women fighting gynecological cancers traded hospital visits for massages and manicures at a spa day event in Evans. Shagofa Woelzlein was diagnosed with stage four uterine cancer in 2018. The cancer had already spread to her lungs. “I was going to be gone within six months....

What started as a request from a handful of female students for equal time with their teacher at a single Richmond County school in the 1960s has grown to impact thousands of young women directly and innumerable people tangentially. When Rosa T. Beard created the Rocket Club for the boys...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – Representatives for U.S. Representative Rick Allen says he is doing okay after a car accident on Wednesday evening. The accident happened on Walton Way. According to the Congressman’s representatives, Congressman Allen was set to speak at the Augusta Boxing Club on Walton Way. Congressman Allen re

RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) – The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents about an ongoing scam targeting family members and loved ones of individuals who have recently been arrested and booked into the Charles B. Webster Detention Center. The scam begins when an individual is arrested and their booking i

#UPDATE | According to RCSO, Kenneth Mattson has been found safe. HEPHZIBAH, Ga. (WJBF) – The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to keep an eye out for a missing man. 40-year-old Kenneth Mattson was last seen on September 20th at 10:00 pm on the 1400 block of Hephzibah McBean Road, according to […]

Augusta Locally Grown will host a two-day event of learning, community and networking Oct. 9-10. Participants will visit farms, participate in workshops and listen to lectures led by local farmers and experts from all over the CSRA as part of the Homegrown Augusta homesteading event. from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oc

A 22-year-old Augusta gang member serving life in prison on a 10-count murder indictment has lost his Georgia Supreme Court appeal for a new trial. Walker was just 16 when he was indicted for the April 2020 fatal shooting of 21-year-old Antonio Geter. That Toddlin' Town: Augusta to Chicago? Grant funds flights from Gar

NORTH AUGUSTA — The city of North Augusta is proposing the equivalent of 2-mill property tax increase for next year, this primarily to help fund additional personnel costs, life-cycling of equipment and the final stage in what's already been a two-year transition away from lease-purchase agreements. Aiken County underw

GROVETOWN, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A petition calling for a Grovetown cat to be returned to her longtime spot outside the tag office has over 1,000 signatures. The cat, known as Annabelle, has lived on the tag office porch for 13 years. She was recently moved from the porch to an...

RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) – On Tuesday, September 29th, shortly before midnight, deputies with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 2000 block of Westfield Drive for a gun shot victim. Upon arrival, deputies made contact with several people at the scene who reported that an unknown white male suspect