Ernest Pursley's father was a Republican in the 1950s when that was a lonely thing to be in Catoosa County, Ga.
Catoosa County Manager Mike Helton has begun an unpaid leave of absence so he can campaign full time for county sheriff.
Layoffs and reduced hours are likely at North Georgia's Cherokee Regional Library System, which has branches in Trenton, LaFayette, Chickamauga and Rossville.
Herman McDaniel grew up in Murray County, Ga., and is an expert on its history. For the past eight years, he's run the Murray County Museum, which only exists online and has "Heritage in Cyberspace" as its motto.
RINGGOLD, Ga. -- A legacy of the civil rights movement has put a few wrinkles in Catoosa County's decision to assign 200 residents to a different voting district.
Rossville is ticketing trashy-looking yards. Four property owners faced $141 fines Monday night in City Court because they didn't comply with cleanup letters sent by the city's Better Housing Commission.
ROSSVILLE — John Coffman is so impressed with Inner-City Aquaponics that he’s been volunteering full-time for the past six weeks at the fish farm and garden that’s taking shape behind the vacant Rossville Middle School.
A 2009 bill that froze property tax assessments in Georgia has expired, but area residents shouldn't expect a shock when assessment notices arrive soon in the mail.
The Lookout Mountain, Ga., City Council adopted a timeline at its meeting Thursday night to seek developers' proposals to create a new "town center" -- and hasn't ruled out any ideas.
The Lookout Mountain United Methodist Church is not for sale.
About 1,200 bicycle riders are expected to roll through Catoosa and Whitfield counties on the first weekend in June.
Truckers driving big rigs through Rossville will need to stay on U.S. Highway 27 -- or face a $141 fine.
LaFayette, Ga., is due to get a piece of history to put on display: a passenger car used by the storied Central of Georgia Railway.
Walker County, Ga., Sheriff Harvey Mize's first -- and last -- day on the job was Feb. 14, 1879.
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ga. -- The City Council is going to throw the door open to developers to present ideas for a new town center.
At a meeting tonight, the City Council is planning to seek requests for proposals to create a new town center where the aging city hall now stands -- including one that's twice the size of a previous proposal.
CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. — When the Smith Planetarium opened in May 2011 on Pond Springs Road, its namesake James A. Smith led the first program, pointing out constellations on the domed ceiling with a handheld green laser beam.
When a one-in-100-year flood hit Chickamauga in September 2009, "you could not get in and out of Chickamauga. It was just an island surrounded by water," City Manager John Culpepper remembers.
LaFayette, Ga., officials have approved a resolution that would allow residents to report any ethical complaints about the City Council, mayor or city manager to the clerk's office to be addressed by a committee of three residents.
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ga. -- Jim Huff was in the woods Friday morning near Cloudland Canyon State Park with his dog for company, Alison Krauss' bluegrass cranked up on the stereo and a giant shovel at his fingertips.
The woolly adelgid, a pinhead-sized, sap-sucking insect from east Asia that threatens to wipe out huge stands of eastern hemlock trees around the country, has been found on Lookout Mountain.
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ga. -- City property taxes could increase by 17 percent for 20 years to fund a new town hall, police station and fire station to replace the aging City Hall.
CHATTOOGA COUNTY, Ga. — When Howard Finster had a vision in 1976 to paint sacred art, the retired Baptist minister said God asked him to create 5,000 works to spread the gospel.
SUMMERVILLE, Ga. — In 2010, the Chattooga County School District adopted a four-day school week to save money.
It should be easier, one day, to walk between the town centers of Lookout Mountain, Ga., and Lookout Mountain, Tenn. The sister cities are building pedestrian pathways on Lula Lake Road heading toward the state line where they’ll connect — like the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, to create the transcontinental railroad.
Firefighters in Walker County, Ga., now train by extinguishing wooden pallets set afire inside shipping containers.
Before the Battle of Chickamauga began, Union forces set up a field hospital at what was described as a "beautiful spring" on Col. A.C. Cloud's property near what is now Old LaFayette Road.
Walker County kicked off construction of its new K-8 school by finally giving it a name: Saddle Ridge.
Walker County kicked off construction of its new K-8 school by finally giving it a name: Saddle Ridge.
Walker County, Ga., may take a small step toward lowering business' fire insurance costs and a giant leap in improving firefighter training by buying a new training tower.
Businessman Paul Chapman has given up on opening an outdoor gun range near a Chickamauga, Ga., day care after a roomful of parents expressed opposition Thursday night to the city's planning commission.
Tiffany Smolik cited her experience as a sniper in the U.S. Air Force to make a case against opening an outdoor gun range across from a day care center where her child is enrolled.
A Chickamauga audience was overwhelmingly against a proposal tonight to build an outdoor shooting range across the street from a daycare center.
The city of LaFayette has approved plans for a new terminal at city-owned Barwick-LaFayette Airport.
CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. — "Help!!" So begins a note taped to the front counter of the Academy for Little People, pleading for parents to sign a petition against a shooting range proposed across LaFayette Road from the day care center.
Costco, Walmart, Kmart and Home Depot are all inside Fort Oglethorpe's city limits and ring up a lot of sales tax dollars throughout the year.
Wearing a black leather jacket and biker's "skull rag" over his long, blond hair, Stan Ellsworth strolled Friday morning near the New York Monument at Point Park as a camera crew captured his every word.
Georgia first lady Sandra Deal spent a few minutes Thursday watching a 4-month-old baby trying to kick an oatmeal container. The exercise was meant to build the baby’s muscles and motor skills — and teach its teen mother the stages of her child’s development.
LaFayette, Ga., has scaled down a plan to pipe natural gas to chicken houses in southern Walker County because of the expense — and that doesn’t sit well with some chicken farmers.
Thousands of visitors are expected in Summerville, Ga., on May 5-6 for Finster Fest, a celebration of folk artist Howard Finster.
Wayne Swanson says he's never voted for a rate increase in the more than 12 years he's been a city councilman in LaFayette, Ga.
The Fort Oglethorpe City Council had a chance Monday night to have the gymnasium built in 1904 at the city's namesake Army post transformed into a community center and the new home of the 6th Cavalry Museum.
Walker County Sole Commissioner Bebe Heiskell hopes a majority of county voters -- and those around Georgia -- will support a 1-cent, 10-year statewide transportation special purpose local option sales tax when it's on the ballot July 31.
The city recently spent $270,000 to buy City Hall’s front lawn. The City Council’s next step comes May 3 during a meeting for public input on how to pay for $1.2 million worth of proposed new buildings to replace the aging, concrete-block City Hall at 1214 Lula Lake Road.
When spring break ends Monday, students at all three Catoosa County high schools will be allowed to use cell phones during class changes and lunch.
If the idea of shooting off a cannon while dressed as a Civil War soldier appeals to you, now's your chance.
Everyone's referring to Walker County's newest new kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school as, well, "the K through Eight."
Walker County is among nine Georgia counties, out of 159 counties statewide, that still use the sole commissioner system with one elected official calling all the shots.
Wariness over being responsible for a 108-year-old building seemed to melt away Friday afternoon from the Fort Oglethorpe City Council. Although there had been some trepidation about taking over such an old structure that needs a lot of work, council members warmed to the idea of gaining the historic Army post gymnasium as a community showpiece.
Will the gymnasium built in 1904 at the Fort Oglethorpe Army Post be transformed into a community center and the new home of the 6th Cavalry Museum?
