Byron News

Peach County is making plans to fix its animal control problem. County leaders and leaders from the city of Byron visited the Hawkinsville Shelter in Pulaski County to get ideas on building a county-wide shelter.

One local organization hopes to make a difference this Christmas in the lives of many children living in more than 100 different countries.

With the holidays just around the corner, many people are planning to hit the stores to find the perfect deal.

Peach County voters will decide Tuesday whether to renew a 1 percent education local option sales tax for another five years.

The issues took center stage with mayoral and Warner Robins City Council hopefuls at Tuesday night's candidates forum at Macon State College's Warner Robins campus.

About a dozen residents sitting in Byron's City Council chambers Friday afternoon fired off a barrage of questions to city officials about the proposed millage rate increase.

If you think you'll have trouble paying home heating bills this winter, you can ask for help starting Monday.

For the first time in nearly 16 years, Warner Robins will have a new leader. In Tuesday's election, City Councilman Clifford Holmes Jr., along with political newcomers Chuck Shaheen and Chuck Chalk, now aim to build on the successes of Mayor Donald Walker, who died Sept.

A Valdosta woman was returned to her family after Bibb County sheriff's deputies put down spike sticks and conducted a rolling roadblock in order to get her to pull over, authorities said.

The five people who sat in the audience at Friday evening's public hearing to discuss Byron's millage rate increase didn't all live in Byron, Talks of annexing land into the city brought Gene and Jolene Smith to the meeting.

Lane Southern Orchards in Fort Valley is in the midst of holding a corn maze through the month of October.

On Oct. 15 at approximately 5:15 a.m., Upson County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to 162 Park View Road, south of Upson County, in reference to a house fire.

GBI investigator Rodney Wall and two members of the crime scene unit discussing the placement of evidence markers on the property.

The Crawford County sheriff says no one will be charged in Saturday morning's hunting accident that injured a Byron man.

Three midstate men have been jailed in connection with the slaying of an Upson County couple.

The City Council voted Monday to accept nearly $350,000 in grant money that will cover, among other things, two sport utility vehicles, two canine officers and full-time salaries for two officers, all for Byron Police Department's Interstate Criminal Enforcement unit.

Fort Valley residents should soon receive mail from the city about the upcoming election.

Ralph Edward Arnold, 90, passed away September 16, 2009. Funeral services were held Friday, September 18th in the chapel of Heritage Memorial Funeral Home in Warner Robins, Georgia.

A parent discovers a body near an elementary school in Byron early Friday morning.

An employee of a Warner Robins tobacco shop was shot Thursday morning during an armed robbery, police said.