Kings Bay News

The struggling economy and maintaining a high level of city services are the primary issues facing the city, according to three candidates in Tuesday's nonpartisan election for the City Council Post 1 seat.

Individual City Council members do not have police powers to question private citizens, city attorney J. Alexander Atwood said this week.

Although some question the effectiveness of Red Ribbon Week, the nation's oldest anti-drug campaign, Camden County teachers, students and school administrators aren't among them.

By ERIKA CAPEK The Brunswick News Friday was the dawn of a new day at the College of Coastal Georgia.

The Navy is considering Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base and Mayport Naval Station as possible home ports for a riverine squadron with as many as 700 sailors and 36 boats.

Submariners sleep nine to a bunk room. There are four showers and seven toilets for the roughly 140 enlisted men.

Military YAHOO! Women Could Start Serving on Subs as Soon as 2011, Navy Says For decades there has been talk about women serving on submarines.

A St. Marys woman was emotional when telling St. Marys police officer that her 4-year-old daughter was missing.

Women could begin serving aboard Navy submarines as early as 2011. A Navy spokesman at the Pentagon told The Kitsap Sun it's preparing a notification to Congress, a necessary administrative step.

Police have found a 4-year-old who was reported missing today at a day care where she was dropped off this morning, according to St.

A note threatening an Anthrax contamination at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay near St.

TERRY DICKSON/The Times-Union Navy veteran Lisa Goins said she would have jumped at the chance to serve on a submarine, but women aren't allowed to do so.

U.S. Navy Master Chief Michael McLauchian presents the Omaha Trophy to the USS Maryland crew at Kings Bay.

A city police officer serving under a one-year probation period has been fired. City Manager Bill Shanahan said officer Robert Godley was dismissed Tuesday by Chief Tim Hatch.

VT Services, which operates separate divisions that provide support services at Jacksonville's Cecil Commerce Center and at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Southeast Georgia, announced a reorganization Monday that will put all of its U.S. operations under one umbrella.

Two of the people elected to represent the First Coast are speaking out about health care reform.

TERRY DICKSON/The Times-Union A flag flies at half-staff in front of Frye Funeral Home in Nahunta, where police and firefighters gathered Friday to remember the heroes of 9/11. A flag-draped wood coffin was displayed to represent the lost.

Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast's award of a $30 million design and engineering contract to a Tampa company will translate to $300 million worth of construction work, with much of it in Florida.

Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 8:03 a.m. ST. MARYS - Five Bahamian fishermen clinging to a capsized boat four days in the Atlantic Ocean were rescued by an unlikely source - a Trident submarine.

Harry Pepper & Associates has landed an $8.6 million contract to modernize the water treatment facility at the Naval base in Kings Bay, Ga.