A spirit that feels a lot like hope surrounds the Vision Zero mobility policy announced by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. The city may have found a guiding light for moving folks no matter how ...
No one seems to talk about stalactites in the Florida caverns, or the bass and ducks in and around Lake Seminole. Oysters, farmers and metro Atlanta get all the attention in the ongoing water litigation ...
The competition for development rights at MARTA’s North Avenue Station is delayed by eight weeks to give companies time to digest additional technical information. Major companies have assembled at the table to review a premier ...
Almost a year before Jared Teutsch was named to lead Atlanta Audubon, he wrote a column about green infrastructure techniques in his role with The Nature Conservancy. The techniques he espoused, and other matters, match ...
As Halle Matula watched little Bambi run around the play area outside Fulton County’s animal shelter late Tuesday afternoon, Matula said she hopes county commissioners on Wednesday will approve the proposal to replace a crowded ...
There are those who preserve Georgia’s past in photo archives before it falls to decay or development. Then there’s Madison-Morgan Conservancy, which aims to protect the past by giving it an economic foundation for the ...
The Atlanta City Council seems intent to raise in 2020 the one-time impact fees charged to new developments to raise money to provide the public parks, roads, police precincts and fire stations that serve growth. ...
Recent rains were too little, too late and came at the wrong time to help Georgia’s cotton and peanut farmers, but winter grains crops will benefit. The drought maps that have become so commonplace don’t ...
By David Pendered Atlanta’s public process of revising the city’s tree protection ordinance is to continue next week at two community meetings. A final proposal isn’t expected for months as the discussion gets into the weeds ...
Sandy Springs has adopted a master plan for a trail system that sets the city on course to build a trail network nearly 10 miles longer than the Atlanta BeltLine. The first 7-mile phase is ...
Prisoners at Fulton County’s jail, and dogs from the county's animal shelter, are being brought together in a 10-week training program whose founder hopes it will benefit from latest example of an emerging type of ...
DeKalb County voters face a ballot issue on Nov. 5 that seeks to eliminate the position of an ethics officer who is charged with reporting suspected crimes to state or federal authorities and replace it ...
A move by publishers to protect profits from the sale of e-books and e-audiobooks has prompted the Fulton County Library System to urge patrons to protest publishers’ decisions to embargo or otherwise restrict new release ...
Georgia Tech opened to the public on Thursday the Kendeda Building, which intends to stand as an example of what its benefactor envisions as, “an impetus for new ways of approaching the world we want ...
A video tour posted by marine scientists provides a close-up look at life forms in the deep waters of Georgia’s newly named Hope Spot marine conservation area. Videos give first-ever glimpses of cold water corals ...
The seeds of a future generation of older folks who struggle to afford a home are being sowed even as a new study from Harvard University highlights the current generation of cost-burdened older households, according ...
The potential state takeover of Atlanta’s airport did not weigh on the airport’s recent credit rating by analysts who say federal law will control debt payments no matter who controls the facility, according to a ...
Ludacris is the latest Atlanta rapper to bridge the divide between Atlanta’s hip hop and legacy civic communities. Ludacris is joining Georgia State University as an artist-in-residence, where he’s to advise on subjects including entrepreneurship ...
Atlanta has packed a lot into the stated goals of the city’s newly named chief sustainability officer – oversight of both resilience and sustainability. The appointment comes as the city’s main backer of its resiliency ...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammed Yunus once seemed ever-present in Atlanta, until he lost his bid to bring a summit of Nobel laureates to Atlanta in 2015. On Monday, Yunus’ theories on the use of ...
