In May's Special District Elections, Douglas County residences are voting for individuals seeking election to a variety of special district boards. There were 19 contested races across 83 special dist ...

Local businesses in SGA feel the effects of Early County’s mill closure ...

Curtis Towns of Cottage Grove (IMCA modifieds) and Josh King of Medford (dwarf cars) won their respective classes during a ...

A California man known as a “repeat sex offender” tried setting up a Halloween “sex party” involving drug use to sexually abuse a child, federal prosecutors said. Then came a standoff with a SWAT team ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is appointing Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host and longtime Trump ally, to serve ...

Allyson Felix, Serena Williams and Gabby Douglas headline the 2025 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame class. Felix won a female track and field record 11 Olympic medals and seven golds from 2004 ...

An estimated 58.7 million U.S. adults—nearly one in four—live with a mental illness, according to national health data. Among this population, individuals enrolled in Medicaid are more likely ...

Some of Douglas County’s more dangerous roads are in line for safety overhauls. County commissioners are set to vote Tuesday morning on a contract with Atlanta engineering and planning firm Pond ...

The council passed the ordinances, sponsored by council member Nate Nehring, unanimously. The county’s Office of Neighborhoods, which pairs law enforcement officers with social workers ...

Farooq Mughal and Sandy Donatucci will battle again for the House District 105 seat. Tyler Harper rides a bull for Future Farmers of America. Lucy McBath teams with Adam Schiff to propose assault ...

Jefferson County’s are up 2%, and Douglas County’s are down 3.5%. “That’s not good news from a home equity point of view, or personal finance point of view, but from a property tax point ...