Cumming GA

The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners has scheduled a Jan. 20 public hearing to discuss a board-initiated proposal to rezone about 60 acres in the historic Pearidge Community from R-40 to a less restrictive R-20 classification. The commissioners’ action comes after Pearidge Land Investments, LLC, and its...

Cherokee County firefighters responded Wednesday afternoon to quickly extinguish a house fire in the Barrington Farms neighborhood, the fire department announced. According to Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services, at about 2:45 p.m. Wednsday firefighters were dispatched to a report of a structure fire in the...

Authorities are asking the public to help them identify a suspect in an alleged 2025 smash-and-grab burglary at a Dahlonega gas station. The incident reportedly happened on September 1, 2025 at the Gulf gas station on Highway 19 North near Lumpkin County High School. A social media post made late Friday, Jan. 2 by...

Verkkoa hall county jail captain and lieutenant are no longer employed by the hall county sheriff’s office following an internal investigation into alleged policy. Jeffreys, author of america’s jails: The search for human dignity in an age of mass incarceration, states that far more research is conducted. The...

Gwinnett County Police arrested a man after he was seen attempting to break into several vehicles wearing only a tablecloth. They released this video of the arrest.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Atlanta rideshare drivers are shaken up after three separate violent incidents. On Friday, a driver was hit by a stray bullet in Atlanta. He drove himself to the hospital. On Thursday, a different driver in Lawrenceville was carjacked and killed. Police said his...

A chilling report from police in Georgia alleges that a 15-year-old boy ordered an Uber ride on New Year’s Day and then proceeded to shoot the driver dead.

The city of Canton has installed new pedestrian crosswalk flashing signs on Prominence Point Parkway and Keeter Road, at the Village Drive and Holly Mill Village Drive intersection. The city reported that the new signs are in response to hearing community concerns about pedestrian safety in the crosswalk and...

In November 2025, the Georgia Department of Transportation presented Ralph Beaver (above at left), a maintenance foreman with the agency, with its Heroism Award and its Sean Kornacki Award for risking his life to save two motorists and a police officer while responding to a highway incident. [Above photo by...

“It took me about a week to even come back to get my car. I just couldn’t see it.”