Final numbers have been released from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for boating incidents from the entire Memorial Day weekend for North Georgia and across the state.

Anthony Oliver was about 40 feet below the surface, navigating the dangerous and murky depths of Lake Lanier on a Sunday in 2021, when he reached out and grabbed what had been a faint outline captured ...

While all bodies of water present dangers if you're not careful, some - like this popular destination northeast of Atlanta - ...

The sheriff's department found Valencia's black Honda Accord ... another tragedy on Lake Lanier. Last May, a man named Matthew Mayo, 73, drowned while fishing on a bass boat with his wife.

A 60-year old man drowned on Thursday in Black Diamond. According to the Black Diamond Police Department, the man was discovered unresponsive in the water in Black Diamond Lake south of the ...

For the 2025 installment of its annual event, the Marine Trade Association of Metro Atlanta (MTAMA) invites attendees of the Lake Lanier Boat Show to “Unplug, Explore, and Enjoy.” Guests of ...

The legend of Lake Lanier dates back to 1912, when a white woman was killed in Oscarville, a thriving Black town which is ... Citing drownings, boat fires, and missing people, the lake claimed ...

Mobs drove the Black community out, according to 11 Alive. The town was destroyed and then the Buford Dam was built in the late 1950s. Lake Lanier was ... out of a bass boat with his wife and ...

A boat launch in Black Diamond was closed for part of the morning on Friday after a large truck got stuck in the lake. According to the Black Diamond Police Department, the truck went into the ...

BLACK DIAMOND, Wash. — A boat launch in Black Diamond was closed for part of the morning on Friday after a large truck got stuck in the lake. According to the Black Diamond Police Department ...

Decades earlier, terrorist attacks by white neighbors drove away a community of Black ... on a Lake Lanier dock. The man’s daughter called him after she saw their family boat wasn’t tied ...