Arcade News

Volunteer firefighters from the South Jackson, Arcade and Jackson County Correctional Institute fire departments were able to extinguish a Friday afternoon trailer fire before the structure was destroyed, according to a news release from Steve Nichols, Jackson County's emergency management director.

Despite being seen as a "necessary evil," according to the Statham Police Department, traffic stops are worth it - because they could save your life.

Walton International Group Inc. announced today the successful completion of unit placements in Walton GA Arcade Meadows Limited Partnership 1. Walton GA Arcade Meadows Limited Partnership 1 attained a final closing on April 28, 2009, and involves USD $28,079,780 invested directly or indirectly by 1,109 investors.

The Arcade City Council has decided to start charging for the city's staff to fax, copy or notarize documents for citizens.

One person is dead - apparently a child - and two others were transported by helicopter to Grady Memorial Hospital early Sunday afternoon with gunshot wounds in what Commerce police chief John Gaissert called "a deadly confrontation" at a ... [ Full Story>> ] Rita Whitman lives at 261 Troy Street, across the street and just up the hill from the ...

Arcade City Council voted Monday to sever its ties with the Quad Cities Planning and Development Board, the body formed in 2003 to handle zoning and development matters for Jefferson, Talmo, Arcade and Pendergrass.

The threat of river flooding in Jackson County appears to have diminished Sunday morning as the Middle Oconee River is now predicted not to exceed flood stage.

A flood warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for the Middle Oconee River near Arcade affecting Jackson and Barrow counties and for the Broad River near Carlton affecting Madison and Oglethorpe counties.

Hall County Commissioners said Monday they want a public hearing next month on a proposed annexation of a section of I-985 into the City of Gainesville.

Even a Georgia home game doesn't pack the Clarke County Jail like Wednesday morning's St.

A mistrial was declared Thursday in the trial of former Arcade Mayor Joe Sikes after a jury deliberated for approximately 10 hours.

A Jackson County jury has deadlocked while trying to decide if former Arcade Mayor Joe Sikes threatened members of the city council after they suspended his oil recycling business license following a 2005 ...

A Jackson County jury has deadlocked while trying to decide if former Arcade Mayor Joe Sikes threatened members of the city council after they suspended his oil recycling business license following a 2005 ...

A Jackson County jury deadlocked Thursday while trying to decide whether former Arcade Mayor Joe Sikes threatened members of the Arcade City Council after they suspended his license for an oil recycling ...

A Jackson County jury deadlocked Thursday while trying to decide whether former Arcade Mayor Joe Sikes threatened members of the Arcade City Council after they suspended his license for an oil recycling ...

Authorities closed a section of U.S. Highway 129 in Jackson County this afternoon after a tractor-trailer truck and a car collided, killing one person and injuring two others, the Georgia State Patrol said.

First-grade teacher Cindy Lee helps George Trammell paste decorations on a paper bag Monday morning at South Jackson Elementary School.

The Jackson County Sheriff's Office has fired two jailers for not keeping watch over a suicidal inmate who hanged himself in the county jail last month.