Chattahoochee National Forest in Polk County Friday, the FAA confirms.TheMooney M20 crashed happened around 4:20 p.m. near ...

A wildfire burning in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest has grown to 1,936 acres and remains 0% contained, according to James Wettstaed with the U.S. Forest Service. Authorities have closed a ...

FANNIN COUNTY, Ga. – A man sleeping in a hammock deep in the Cohutta Wilderness of the Chattahoochee National Forest in ...

The hiker who was killed when a tree fell on his hammock as he slept on a camping trip has been identified as a 22-year-old senior from the University of Alabama.

One camper has died, and another was injured after a tree fell on a remote campsite in Georgia in the middle of the night.

The Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest has officially terminated the burn ban order that was instated March 27. The ban was ...

Malachi Crain, 22, had been sleeping in a hammock while on a camping trip with friends in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia when a tree fell on him in the early hours of Saturday morning.

"The Big Ridge Fire received 0.75 inches of rain from the storm system that passed through the area Sunday and Monday and containment increased," the Forest Service said. "On the north side of the ...

A sweeping ban on campfires has been issued across Georgia’s Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest due to high fire danger from dry, windy conditions. The U.S. Forest Service has implemented ...

More specifically, campfires are banned in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. The Gainesville, Ga. office of the USDA Forest Service said the ban came “in response to heightened fire ...