Valdosta News

Wiregrass officials have announced that due to a water line break, the Valdosta Campus of Wiregrass Georgia Technical College will be closed for the remainder of May 22.

Children's programs at the library: Book Babies' Reading Program for babies 6-23 months, 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays; Toddler Time Reading Program for children age 2, 10:15 a.m.; Story Time Reading Program for children 3-5 years, 11 a.m.; Camden County Public Library, 1410 E. Georgia 40 E., Kingsland.

A Valdosta man is nearly $500,000 richer after playing the Georgia Lottery's Fantasy 5 on May 16th.

Valdosta, GA - It looks like more folks in Georgia are going back to work. The Unemployment Rate is the lowest it's been in four years.

Four students Riverwood International Charter School have been selected for Georgia's 2013 Governor's Honors Program - Jonah Blumenthal for Visual Arts Cailin Kellum for Chemistry, Sun Young Kim for Mathematics and Kimia Shahrokhi for Visual Arts.

Saying now is the right time, Gainesville City Council appears ready to move forward with the formation of a land bank authority.

UAH softball will take on the Blazers in Valdosta, Georgia, for the right to go to the Women's College World Series.

Sunrise Bank , located in Valdosta, Georgia , and Pisgah Community Bank, located in Ashville, North Carolina , were closed down by the FDIC on May 10.

One man was killed during a robbery. The other victim is recovering. He says he was shot while walking down a street, but police say he's not being honest.

What's even more unimaginable for the Johnsons of Valdosta, Georgia, is how their 17-year-old son died: by suffocating after falling headfirst into a rolled-up gym mat at his high school on January 11.

The "Valdosta City Schools" system is getting three new resource officers. Valdosta City Hall has approved the plan for the Police Department to hire them so they can go work for the school district and keep the kids safe.

Well who's the bread winner in your family? More and more we're seeing "moms" as the head of the household.

On Saturday, May 11, a gospel rally in honor of Lowndes County High School student Kendrick Johnson was held at the Crossing Jordan Baptist Church in downtown Valdosta.

Rico Walker is on a mission to help build the characters of young men in the area.

An employee at a Valdosta beauty store has been shot and killed after a Friday night robbery, according to police.

U.S. regulators closed small banks in Georgia and North Carolina on Friday, bringing the total number of bank closures so far this year to 12.

The Georgia Department of Banking and Finance has shut down a Valdosta-based bank and transferred its assets to another one in based in Columbus.

What's even more unimaginable for the Johnsons of Valdosta, Georgia, is how their 17-year-old son died: by suffocating after falling headfirst into a rolled-up gym mat at his high school on January 11.

The sleek, gravity-defying Elvis quiffs came first. Then The Computers' style and sound followed suit.

Valdosta has experienced two major floods in the past four years. They are the kind that should only come once or twice in a century.