Walnut Grove City Council candidate Maxine McClanahan said she feels “called” to be a voice for citizens who haven’t been heard.

Some positions in the Walnut Grove city government are vacant, at least for a month, while new leaders get the lay of the land.

Rep. Jody Hice nominated three Walton County students for appointment to the nation’s service academies.

A standing-room-only crowd watched Walnut Grove get a new mayor and two new City Council members. Officials said they hope those citizens stay involved with their government.

Steven Mark Moore was elected mayor of Walnut Grove by a 3-to-1 margin over the interim mayor Tuesday.

Here’s what you need to know about the upcoming election in Walnut Grove.

The races for city offices in Walton County continued to fill up Thursday, the next to last day of qualifying.

Only one person qualified to run for city offices in Walton County on Tuesday, the second day of qualifying.

All five members of the Monroe City Council whose terms expire this year have qualified to run for reelection.

A man who was arrested in a chase that ended in a school parking lot now faces charges related of armed robbery and assault.

A police chase ended when a sheriff’s deputy used his car to disable the suspect vehicle as it pulled into a school parking lot.

Walnut Grove Mayor Lamar Lee has been in the public eye for 20 years.

Former state Sen. Don Ballard helped the community because the community helped him.

The Walnut Grove City Council has called a special work session for Tuesday night to discuss the budget.

A Walton County firefighter is credited with saving a woman’s life in a weekend house fire.

A woman is being held without bond in the Walton County jail after her arrest on drug trafficking charges.

Voters in Walton County cities will go to the polls in 2019 to select leaders.

Walton County turns 200 on Saturday.

A man told troopers he doesn’t remember the crash that left him injured near Walnut Grove on Wednesday.

Classes at Walnut Grove Elementary School were being held under a low-level lockdown Wednesday morning.

Two city councils will have special meetings in this week.

Destinee Long, a senior from Walnut Grove High School, spent five weeks this summer discovering the responsibilities and benefits that come with being employed.

A former Walnut Grove High School teacher and coach is being investigated for alleged sexual conduct with a student.

The Walnut Grove mayor and City Council have begun advertising a proposed 6-mill property tax for residents.

The rising cost of — well, pretty much everything — is forcing the county government to collect more in property tax.

A Monroe man was arrested Tuesday on charges related to the shooting of a man last week in Social Circle.

Social Circle police are looking for answers and swatting rumors after a recent high school graduate was shot early Thursday morning.

Walton County has topped 90,000 residents and continues to grow.

It was, as much as any of the senior pranks, a sign of graduation season.

The tornado that hit southern Walton County earlier this month was one of seven in north and middle Georgia on April 5.

A bus driver with 10 years in the Walton County school system was fired from her job a week after a crash that injured multiple students.

A local woman is continuing to recover in an Athens hospital after a head-on crash. State troopers think alcohol was involved.

School officials pulled a bus driver off the road this week after a crash that sent several students to the hospital.

Officials said they considered a shooting on a Walton County highway to be a case of self-defense.

Kevin Little will begin his fifth term leading the county government in 2017, and familiar issues will top his agenda.

Shots were fired in what is being investigated as a possible road rage incident — and maybe a case of self-defense — in the Walnut Grove area late Saturday afternoon.

Some relief from the drought may be on the way next week.

Two recent students of Walnut Grove High School have been identified as victims of a fatal house fire near Duluth.

Write-in candidates for Congress and sheriff have emerged.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man following a traffic chase that tied up a main intersection for about half an hour Thursday.