The three living children of Martin Luther King Jr. are close to reaching consensus on their legal disputes that have divided them over the past several years.
Dexter King and his wife, Leah Weber King, attended Saturday night’s Salute to Greatness Awards dinner, the first one he has been to in years.
Metro Atlanta’s thriving public health sector has attracted an international faith-based ministry with a focus on health to move to Midtown from New York City.
In 2004, a research paper from Georgia State University outlined risks associated with the funding mechanism of the public amenities along the Atlanta BeltLine. It foretold the type of conflict that’s occurred between Atlanta and Atlanta Public Schools.
The financing of the Atlanta BeltLine is an enigma. That’s the result of an hour-long discussion Wednesday by the Atlanta City Council’s Finance Committee over the decision by Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration to pay Atlanta Public Schools $5 million last month without first informing the council.
The fun travels of the make-believe Waddlesworth family are slated to come to an end when the family arrives at the Georgia Aquarium, just in time to celebrate Penguin Awareness Day on Jan. 20.
A neighborhood coalition on Monday released its wish list for the redevelopment of Turner Field. Some of the desires could be accommodated by plans of a development team named by the city to redevelop Turner Field – if traffic congestion can be managed.
The chairman of the Atlanta City Council Finance Committee Monday will ask the administration to fully disclose details surrounding its $9 million payment to the Atlanta Public Schools made at the end of 2015 over the Atlanta BeltLine.
Atlanta has purchased an apartment building and plans to rent units at reduced prices to workers who earn less than the median income, according to Mayor Kasim Reed’s office and legislation approved by the Atlanta City Council.
With the population of bobwhite quail reduced by 90 percent since 1966, Georgia and the federal government announced Friday they are launching an additional program to enhance habitat where the birds live.
The Westside Future Fund announced today that Quince Brinkley, its executive director since June, has resigned.
Brinkley announced he was stepping down for personal and family reasons.
Metro Atlanta’s office and warehouse markets ended 2015 in their best shape in more than a decade, according to new reports released Thursday by CBRE, a global real estate firm.
People around town were shaking their heads Wednesday upon the news that Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed had forced Craig Richard, the CEO of Invest Atlanta, to resign.
Richard, who has been with the city for less than 14 months, had put together a strong track record during his tenure.
Georgia’s economy and employment rate are improving, but that doesn’t mean the state government will have a surge of revenues available to lawmakers when they devise a budget in the upcoming Legislative session, according to a new report from Georgia State University.
The city of Atlanta paid Atlanta Public Schools $9 million last week in an important step toward resolving a long-running legal dispute over tax allocation district revenues from Atlanta BeltLine Inc.
It appears as though an agreement has been reached between the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Board of Education on payments the city owes with the tax allocation district with the Atlanta BeltLine.
The Atlanta City Council is determined to see that Moores Mill Road is extended so that a shopping center can be built, a commercial development that’s seen as essential to the revitalization of neighborhoods southwest of Buckhead.
Atlanta’s most notorious locomotive took to the skies on Monday afternoon.
That was when Atlanta History Center began the delicate process of removing the 1856 Texas locomotive from the Cyclorama building as part of an agreement with the City of Atlanta to restore and relocate “The Battle of Atlanta” cyclorama painting and other Civil War artifacts.
A consortium that includes Georgia State University was named Monday as the preferred bidder to redevelop Turner Field and about 70 surrounding acres. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed heralded the decision.
In a surprise move, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank announced Monday that Stephen Cannon, currently president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA, has been named the next CEO of AMB Group LLC beginning on Feb 1.
Cannon will assume all day-to-day responsibilities of AMB Group, which represents all of Blank’s for-profit entities. Blank will continue in his role as chairman and owner – working with Cannon on overall strategy for the Blank family of businesses.
The speaker who headlines the 2016 State of MARTA breakfast is so focused on disruptive technology that he disrupted the Paris climate talks by saying talks about reducing carbon emissions don’t matter – because technology will end the use of fossil fuels by 2030.
