SAVANNAH RIVER

Georgia officials have signed off on a plan to raise Savannah’s towering suspension bridge to make room for larger cargo ships to reach the city’s busy seaport.

The mud- and rust-encrusted guns were discovered by accident as the Georgia riverbed was being dredged. Researchers suspect they came from British ships scuttled to the river bottom in 1779.

The cannons came from British ships scuttled to the river bottom during the buildup to the bloody siege of Savannah in 1779, researchers think.

A warehouse along the Savannah River is holding historical treasures that evidence suggests remained lost for more than 240 years — a cache of 19 cannons that researchers suspect came from British ships scuttled to the river bottom during the American Revolution. Archaeologists guessed they were possibly leftover relics from a sunken Confederate gunship excavated a few years earlier in the same area, said Andrea Farmer, an archaeologist for the Army Corps of Engineers. Further research indicates they're likely almost a century older and sank during the buildup to the Revolutionary War's bloody siege of Savannah in 1779.

The Savannah Paper Mill is one of its oldest and largest industries. Generations have worked at the plant. We hear from two longtime workers.

Jun. 24—Two men were arrested June 15 for violating the Underwater Antiquities Act at the Savannah River. Nathan Lee Tarpein, 41, and Nicholas Ryan Fox, 24, were charged with exclusive license violations of the Underwater Antiquities Act. On May 11, police observed what appeared to be a logging operation setup at Steel Creek Landing in Barnwell County on the Savannah River, according to an ...

Army Corps of Engineers scientists drift in a boat toward a plume of red dye in the Savannah River, Ga., as they test large machines designed to boost oxygen levels in the river. SAVANNAH, Ga. - Conservation groups "remain skeptical" that machines injecting oxygen into the Savannah harbor will offset threats to fish caused by deepening the busy shipping channel to the Port of Savannah, but they won't return to court to fight the $973 million project, according to the environmental groups' attorney. Conservation groups and South Carolina state agencies had sued the Army Corps in federal court, arguing the harbor expansion would cause irreversible environmental damage. A settlement reached in 2013 stated that the plaintiffs could terminate the deal if the Corps couldn't prove the oxygen machines worked. DeScherer's letter said the environmental groups that sued won't scrap the settlement despite their doubts about the oxygen machines.