Kevin West

A dispute between environmentalists and an Atlanta power company has turned nasty in this coastal town after the local government granted permission to build a 600-megawatt power plant.

The fans are apparently frustrated over NASCAR's inconsistency with the rules. They showed as much Saturday night, by pelting the cars with debris in what looked like a protest to the Pepsi 400 ending under caution.

If it seems odd that south Fulton County shares a congressional seat with Social Circle, in Walton County to the east, and Flovilla, in Butts County to the south, blame technology.

Health officials in Chatham County have lifted a ban on fishing and swimming in a polluted river.

Sharad Phatak has been singing the praises of crimson clover for revitalizing lifeless farmland for years.

A man was shot and killed while camping at a northeast Georgia wildlife preserve over the July Fourth holiday.

A New Jersey man is among 37 people scheduled to appear in federal court this week after a protest took them onto the grounds of Fort Benning in Georgia earlier this year.

Weeks before his death, Jacob Lawrence explained the impetus behind ``The Migration Series,'' a 60-panel narrative of the black exodus from rural Southern towns to the North and West from 1916 to 1930.

A 19th-century ship once the site of swank parties for Savannah socialites now has a two-month notice to ship out forever.

Divers searched Dalewood Lake on Saturday for an Atlanta man reported missing after a collision of two watercraft.