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Georgia Southern University® Names Fourth Annual Yamaha Rightwaters™ Conservation Scholarship Recipient
17+ hour, 45+ min ago (150+ words) Updated 11 hours, 45 minutes ago Yamaha’s U.S. Marine Business Unit, based in Kennesaw, Ga., is responsible for the sales, marketing, and distribution of Yamaha Marine products in the U.S. including Yamaha Outboards, Yamaha WaveRunners ®, Yamaha Boats, G3 ® Boats and Skeeter ® Boats. Supporting…...
Georgia Tech Wins the Final Year of EcoCAR Challenge
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (341+ words) Updated Friday, May 22, 2026 | 8:38 a.m. Georgia Tech has won Year Four of the EcoCAR EV Challenge, claiming the top spot in the final year of the collegiate engineering competition. McMaster University took second place, and Virginia Tech received third place. Georgia Tech,…...
Heavy weekend rain slows 2 sprawling Georgia wildfires, even as new blazes start
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (610+ words) Updated 5 hours, 3 minutes ago Although the rain helped the firefighting efforts, it wasn't “nearly enough to put the fires out" and crews responded to 10 new blazes throughout the drought-stricken state Sunday, the Georgia Forestry Commission said Monday. Blackened trees and…...
Growing Georgia wildfires have destroyed 120 homes, forcing new evacuations
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (574+ words) Updated Friday, April 24, 2026 | 11:47 a.m. James “Kevin” Crews of the Hilliard Volunteer Fire Department was helping suppress a brush fire in Nassau County near the Georgia state line late Thursday afternoon when he was stricken by an unspecified medical emergency, according to…...
Growing wildfire that has destroyed nearly 90 homes in Georgia forces new evacuations
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (467+ words) Updated 5 hours, 44 minutes ago The fire burning in rural Brantley County has spread across more than 8 square miles (20 square kilometers) since it ignited Monday, fanned by gusty winds into pine woods that are dry as tinder. Nearly 90 homes have been…...