Augusta GA

NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WJBF)- Major growth taking place in North Augusta. Several large multi use neighborhoods are under construction. That construction is bringing new businesses. A Hobby Lobby recently opened in the old Bilo location in Edgewood Square. Several additional new businesses are coming to this shopping...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division arrested 22-year-old Mason Marsh for Impersonating a Police Officer and False Imprisonment. Officials say these charges stem from an incident reported to the RCSO on October 10th. The investigation revealed that Marsh conducted...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A second suspect in a shooting that injured a man in Augusta has been arrested, according to officials. The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office says Dominique Ellis was arrested on Thursday morning. He’s charged with aggravated assault in connection to a shooting that happened in broad...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF)- The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office continues their investigation into the murder of an Augusta man Monday night. The victim has been identified as 30-year-old Martin Gordon, who was a student at Helms College. A GoFundMe Page set up for Gordon says he was a single father of two children, who...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The City of Augusta faces a budget crisis nearly twice as severe as projected, with a shortfall rising from $11 million to $21 million. City leaders had previously disclosed the $11 million deficit. The expanded shortfall stems from multiple sources. The end of American Rescue Plan...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) — A shooting Tuesday night near Broad Street has reignited concerns among business owners about crime in an area where the city is actively working to attract new businesses to empty storefronts. The shooting occurred around 8:30 p.m. in the alley behind the Ramada Hotel, just...

A semi truck was filmed getting creamed by an oncoming train from multiple angles in Georgia late last week. The tractor trailer got stuck at the railroad crossing at Old Wrightsboro Road and Katherine Street in Grovetown, Georgia. No one was hurt in the crash, but the incident was filmed from multiple angles by...

RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) – Richmond County investigators are searching for a suspect after a traffic stop turned violent. Deputies say they pulled a person over on the 5700 block of Deans Bridge Road at Magnolia, south of Church Street, when the man exited the vehicle, dropped a gun, picked it up, and fled into […]

COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) – Tuesday night, around 8:15 pm, Columbia County Deputies were called to the I-20 Eastbound on ramp for a collision. Authorities say a motorcycle, driven by 29-year-old Tyler Ray Dunham of Grovetown, was traveling north on Jimmy Dyess Parkway approaching the intersection when a Jeep turned...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Augusta Transit on Wednesday unveiled its new electric buses. They were all funded with federal grant money approved for the agency in recent years. The City of Augusta is confronting a budget crisis nearly twice as severe as initially projected. The five clean-energy, battery-powered buses...