Waynesboro News

The tiny, green road signs entering Burke and Jenkins counties, three hours southeast of Atlanta, say it all: Work Ready.

A consortium of utilities in the South won government approval Thursday to construct two new reactors at an estimated cost of $14 billion, the strongest signal yet that the three-decade hiatus of nuclear plant construction is ending.

Isakson, Chambliss Praise Nuclear Regulatory Commission Vote to Issue Construction License for Plant Vogtle Expansion New Units Will Provide Clean, Affordable Energy for 500,000 Georgia Families, Businesses WASHINGTON, - U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., today praised the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's vote to issue ... (more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission green-lighted construction of the first new nuclear reactors in the United States in more than three decades Thursday.

Steam rises from cooling towers at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle, in Waynesboro, Ga.

Authorities say a civilian reserve officer for the Waynesboro Police Department has been killed in a collision with a logging truck.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jackson Davis, Jr., of Athens, announce the engagement of their daughter, Janet Elizabeth Davis, to Mr.