Graveside services for local civil rights icon Robert “Bobby” Howard will begin at noon Thursday in the Social Circle City Cemetery.

A collision involving a dump truck blocked both lanes of U.S. 78 on Wednesday.

State troopers said a Walton County man sustained serious injury in a crash last week.

More than 1,000 people have signed a petition urging George Walton Academy to keep its head football coach.

Jessie Henderson asked if he could spend the holidays with his family. But less than three weeks later, he allegedly stole a car in Monroe.

A proposed 75-acre neighborhood is on the agenda for the Walton County Planning Commission this week.

A local woman died Thursday night in a crash that shut down a Monroe highway.

A son of a Newton County commissioner was arrested Saturday night after allegedly wrecking a car stolen from a man leaving work in Monroe.

An Athens woman was hurt seriously in a crash Monday morning.

Hitachi Automotive Systems, the largest private employer in Walton County, teamed up with three Honda suppliers to cut costs and better position itself for the cars of the future.

A teenager from Good Hope died when the car she was riding in left the roadway and struck a tree.

Randy McGinley was sworn in as the district attorney for the Alcovy Circuit last week.

A Monroe man is accused of murder after a shooting outside a state prison.

Monroe police are seeking a man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting death early on Christmas Day.

After a series of false alarms, the rally for the reelection of Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler went ahead as planned.

Local Republicans cheered the U.S. senators and other officials who brought a conservative message at a rally Monday, but many turned cool to anyone they found not sufficiently loyal to President Trump.

Chairman-elect David Grady Thompson pledged charity and honesty as he took his oath Tuesday.

A rally planned for Georgia’s senators was postponed, then restored due to shifting schedules in Washington.

Outgoing Board of Commissioners Chairman Kevin Little said he hopes to continue living in Walton County, even though his home will be razed to make way for a new highway.

The Empty Stocking Fund of Walton County plans to come back bigger than ever in 2021 to serve the community, organizers said.

Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler will bring their campaign to Walton County, hoping to run up the total in a reliably red area of Georgia as they try and hold the Senate for Republicans.

Some up-and-coming Republican stars will be in Walton County on Monday to plead for support for the GOP Senate candidates.

A man died in a crash when his car hit a tree outside Monroe in a single vehicle accident Wednesday morning.

Monroe to have first ‘parade in place’ downtown Thursday

Gov. Brian Kemp appointed three men to state boards this week.

Three men – two of them from Monroe – were arrested after Watkinsville police searched a home and vehicles late Friday night.

A man charged with failing to register as a sex offender was found in Monroe.

The owner of a Walton County business has been named to the state board that oversees chiropractic examiners in the state.

One person was shot at a home in Monroe on Friday night.

Walton County voters returned Rep. Bruce Williamson to the state legislature in a landslide.

Political newcomer Tyler Gregory has been elected to the Monroe City Council.

Sen. David Perdue brought his campaign to Walton County this weekend in hopes of firing up the base in the final days of his reelection bid.

Local governments received federal funding this week to help them with major projects.

A Morgan County grand jury indicted Tommy Joe Byrd for murder, felony murder and aggravated assault in relation to the stabbing death of Jerome Bowden.

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and Gov. Brian Kemp will be in Walton County this week to push support for Sen. Kelly Loeffler in the days before the election.

Monroe police have congregated in the Tanglewood neighborhood Thursday afternoon.

A man is in the Walton County Jail, charged with murder in the shooting death of his brother at a home in Gratis.

On a day when early voting shattered records, local Republicans rallied their base with three high-profile national candidates.

MONROE, Ga. — Did you receive an absentee ballot by mail but decide you’d rather vote in person instead?

Harbor Freight Tools is coming to Walton County.

The death of a man found in a vacant home last weekend in Monroe has been ruled a homicide.

Police have remained tight-lipped after a body was found inside a vacant home Sunday afternoon.

An inmate will remain behind bars after the state’s appeals court upheld his conviction of sex crimes against a child.

The attorney for Monroe’s former fire chief said he never got any negative feedback from the city administrator about his performance.

The owner of the Sparrow Hill Inn said she thinks the proposed treatment facility at her property on East Church Street would be a good fit for the neighborhood. Her neighbors disagree.