MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Macon-Bibb County Commission plans to keep the millage rate the same as the year before for fiscal year 2021. However, this does mean a property tax increase due to an increase in property values. “We…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Macon-Bibb Planning and Zoning has approved new climate-controlled storage units for the vacant Kroger on Pio Nono Avenue. Developers are planning to renovate the facility that allows for the desired number of units while reserving a…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - This upcoming September, the annual Ocmulgee Indian Celebration will be virtual. In a news release, Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park announced it would not be able to hold the large event safely due to COVID-19. For…
Macon-Bibb Mayor Robert Reichert has vetoed the county's emergency ordinance requiring the use of face coverings in public.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A wrong-way driver is dead after crashing into a truck in Macon Sunday morning. According to Bibb County deputies, 24-year-old Tavaris McDougald pulled out of "Club X" on Pio Nono Ave. around 4:10 a.m. Witnesses say…
SANDERSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)– A man is behind bars for shooting another man in Sandersville Sunday. According to a post on the Sandersville Police Department's Facebook page, Marquez Little shot a man behind the Kaolin Plaza on Martin Luther King Jr.…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)– One man is seriously injured and another is behind bars after a fight at a motel leads to a man being cut. According to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office, the fight happened at the Macon Inn at…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)– A three year old boy was seriously injured after he was hit by car Saturday afternoon. According to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office, a family member pulled into the driveway of a home on Bennell Avenue in…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)– A three year old girl is dead after accidentally drowning in a pool. According to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office, the girl wondered off during a family gathering in the 500 block of Pierce Avenue in Macon…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)– A man is dead after a house fire in Macon Saturday afternoon. According to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office, Macon-Bibb firefighters found 69 year old Douglas Combes dead inside a home at 3058 Alfred Drive in Macon…
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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Temperatures are heating up in Middle Georgia causing more issues for one of our most vulnerable populations. The Daybreak Resource Center is asking the community for donations and support to help the homeless in Macon this…
GRAY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Gray police arrested a man suspected of stealing lab-drop boxes from a medical clinic in June. According to a police report, police arrested Chad Fountain for stealing lab drop boxes outside Gray Family Health in Jones…
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — After Fort Valley government officials closed facilities due to three employees testing positive for coronavirus, some services have returned to normal operations. Fort Valley Municipal Complex and Fire Headquarters were closed Monday for cleaning and…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Click on the following links to read the full stories: (Thursday, July 23 at 3 p.m.): Georgia COVID-19 tracker Gov. Kemp addresses refusal to issue statewide mask mandate
Summer weather continues today in Middle Georgia with highs in the upper 90's and afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Tomorrow will bring another day of scattered showers and storms, but we will begin to see some cooler temperatures. Now, don't get…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)-- The Tubman Museum in downtown Macon has received the art installations that surrounded the confederate statues on Poplar Street and Cotton Avenue. Harold Young, director at the Tubman Museum, said he is happy the artwork can be saved…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Cirrus Academy Charter School in Macon announced it will open the 2020-2021 school year as a Total Virtual Academy. According to a school news release, the school year will begin as scheduled on August 10th, but…
ATLANTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Governor Brian Kemp and the Georgia Department of Public Health announced a new partnership promising to expand COVID-19 testing and shorten the wait time for test results. According to a news release from Kemp's office, the…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Middle Georgia hospitals are joining together for a “Mask Up to Save Lives” campaign. The hospitals are asking the community to mask up to protect others against the spread of COVID-19. Coliseum Medical Centers, Coliseum Northside…
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Although Governor Brian Kemp continues to encourage Georgians to take safety precautions to slow COVID-19, he says he will not issue a statewide mask mandate. This message comes after Gov. Kemp and Laurens County leaders toured…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Authorities arrested a man in connection with the July 14 shooting in the parking lot of Krystal on Riverside Drive. Sheriff's deputies identified the man as 28-year-old Trevon Lamar Davis. Bibb County Sheriff’s deputies and the…
Dr. Ruben Kellis names Pleasant Hill building after the famed music-icon Little Richard MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Dr. Ruben Kellis is naming his new building in Pleasant Hill after music icon Little Richard. The Macon building is part of the…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Houston County Board of Commissioners announced plans to increase 2020 property taxes by 0.20 percentage (2/10 of one percent) over the rollback millage rate. According to a Houston County news release, prices on recently…
Middle Georgia Regional Library initiates the Library Without Walls program MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- The Middle Georgia Regional Library wants to offer the Macon-Bibb community access to its services, even if residents have no transportation to get there. The library,…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Bibb County Sheriff’s investigators need your help identifying and locating a person passing forged checks. Deputies say the suspect forged checks to purchase items at multiple Walmarts and Academy Sports in the Middle Georgia area. This…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Click on the following links to read the full stories: GBI investigating possible murder-suicide in Milledgeville Zaxby’s in Macon robbed at gunpoint, Sheriff’s Investigators looking for suspect 41NBC Acuweather Forecast: More of the same; above…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Bibb County Sheriff's investigators are looking for a man who robbed a fast-food restaurant at gunpoint. According to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office, the man pulled up to the drive-thru window at Zaxby's on Northside Drive…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) --It’s day three of Operation Southern Shield a Speed Campaign to bring awareness to the dangers of speeding. The state of Georgia and 4 other neighboring states will enforce the message of safe driving in hopes of…
As expected, although it was still hot across Middle Georgia today, high temps topped out in the upper 90's, instead of 100's (we are taking the small wins here because, 2020). We will continue to see the heat through the…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Mount de Sales guard Kobe Sewell was looking for his very first offer to play college basketball back in April. Now, he's signed with a school. Sewell inked his letter of intent with the Savannah State…
Macon-Bibb commissioners approved the relocation of Confederate statues to Whittle Park at Rose Hill Cemetery MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Macon-Bibb Commissioners approved the relocation of two downtown Confederate statues in a 5-4 vote on Tuesday. As part of a city…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – As frontline workers continue to help patients during the coronavirus pandemic, one man shows his appreciation. Terry Hedden provided lunch for 100 healthcare workers at Navicent Health Wednesday. Hedden says during this time of COVID-19, many…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Houston County's Gage Harrelson recently committed to play baseball for the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Harrelson is only entering his junior year in high school. He graduates in 2022. He's a Perfect Game All-American, a…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41nbc/WMGT) - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is assisting with a death investigation involving a Milledgeville couple. According to the GBI, around 11:30 Wednesday morning, police responded to a 911 call at a home on West Mitchell Street…
CLINTON, La. (AP) - Dozens of Confederate statues have fallen across the country -- often in more liberal-leaning urban centers -- but in many smaller places, the effort to remove markers that many view as racist relics has stalled or…
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Fort Valley government officials closed some facilities after three of its city employees tested positive for COVID-19. This comes from a Fort Valley Department of Safety Facebook post. The Facebook post states that three firefighters…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Macon Tracks Running Club's 2020 Labor Day Road Races have been canceled. According to a post on the running club's Facebook page, Macon-Bibb County denied the running club a permit to hold the races and…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) --Candidate for Macon-Bibb’s 5th Commission District is asking the Georgia Secretary of State and Macon-Bibb Board of Elections to investigate ballot irregularities after several complaints from local voters. Candidate Seth Clark first got wind of the ballot…
49-year-old, Dave Carty, was found guilty on February 1, 2019 of one count of wire fraud.
Macon-Bibb Commissioners Tuesday approved a local face covering mandate and the relocation of two downtown Confederate statues.
For the second day in a row we warmed to 100 in Macon today and I for one am over it. Too bad for me, and everyone else who is over this heat, because we will be staying in the…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Macon-Bibb residents gathered outside City Hall for the Macon Deserves Better Rally on Tuesday. Organizers of the Macon Deserves Better rally say they feel as if their voices are not being heard. Bibb County commissioners have…
COCHRAN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Even back to school drives are happening virtually this year. State Farm agent Lindsey Dykes is asking the community to support Cochran and Bleckley County schools. Until the end of July, you can purchase a back…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — United Way of Central Georgia will hold its first virtual Golden Eagle Awards ceremony at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The organization took over the event after The Telegraph’s decided against hosting the 42-year scholarship program. Originally, organizers…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Bibb County Sheriff's investigators are looking into the fatal shooting of a Macon man on Triple Hill Drive. Investigators say they received a call at 10 a.m. on Tuesday in regards to a man with a…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- The trash pickup schedule for Macon-Bibb may be impacted during the upcoming weeks, due to COVID-19. Macon-Bibb’s Solid Waste Department has temporarily suspended collection of yard and bulk waste due to a staffing shortage. According to…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Bibb County has a lower census response rate than the rest of the state as well as the nation. This comes from the U.S. Census Bureau. As of this week, the national response rate stands at…
Here are Middle Georgia's food service health inspection scores from the Georgia Department of Public Health between Monday, July 13 and Friday, July 17, presented by Pierce Parts and Service.
Today we saw our first day this year of triple digit heat in Macon (and Milledgeville). Unfortunately it won't likely be a one off, with more heat on the way tomorrow. High pressure is situated over Georgia which is keeping…