Tifton News

The Tifton Heritage Foundation is presenting its annual Candlelight Tour of Homes at 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Dec.

A Tuesday mid-morning blaze has left a Ray City family burned out. Around 11 a.m., Ray City volunteer firefighters were dispatched to a mobile home on Frank Road, located outside of the Ray city limits, to find the home in flames.

A man charged in connection with the Aug. 25 shooting of a Ty Ty man was released on a $10,000 bond Oct.

A woman was arrested on multiple drug and weapon charges after an unknown caller reported they had just witnessed the woman shooting at another person.

A groundbreaking for a demonstration farm and training facility for Georgia farmers with disabilities and those who work with them to help them learn more about opportunities that help them farm easier will be held at 10 a.m. today in a ceremony near the UGA Tifton Microgin facility at the intersection of Moore Highway and Zion Hope Road.

A Tifton man was shot through the calf of his leg Sunday afternoon when he and another man walked out the front door of a residence.

Part of that exercise happened this weekend in Tifton, the 820th security forces from Moody Air Force Base were training at the Tifton Airport.

Peanut picking recently got a little easier and safer on the University of Georgia Tifton Campus thanks to the donation of a used two-row peanut combine refurbished by the Kelley Manufacturing Company in Tifton.

Even though the game was not over at presstime, it was a big night in Athens for a pair of a Georgia Bulldogs from Tifton.

Enjoy a fall evening under the stars with a free "Keep Tift Clean and Green" concert from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Syd Blackmarr stage in Fulwood Park.

Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Region 5 Planning Board, responsible for planning services in the 44 county Region 5, including Tift County, will hold a public forum for Tift County on Thursday November 19, 2009 at Diversified Enterprises 249 .

Bullying, lying, deceit, misinformation, deception: These are only a few of the words that describe what CityNet has caused in our city.

Justin Allen Culbertson, 20, 114 Christie Lane, Ocilla, was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor possession of marijuana.

Tifton, GA - Dr. Harry Kroto, a winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, spoke to almost 100 college educators at the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center on Friday afternoon on "Teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math to Students in the 21st Century." The first ever Southern Georgia Regional STEM Institute continues through noon on ...

The smile is back on the face of a local woman after people who read a letter about someone stealing her dog responded by uniting her with another one.

TIFTON, GA. The 2009 Community Career Fair in Tifton on Thursday November 5 could help ease some worries and give weary job seekers a leg-up in a competitive employment field.

A deputy is believed to have received only minor injuries when a prisoner he was transporting from the Turner County jail to a doctor's appointment in Tifton Thursday morning overpowered him in an attempt to escape.

"People will buy locally when it is cost-effective to do so. These are trying times and most people have to watch every penny.

The plant in Tifton is a spun yarn facility, and the decision was made because of the downturn in the housing industry.

U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Ga., will hold another town hall meeting Saturday, this time in Tifton.