Community organizer and advocate Michelle “Michi” Sanchez has officially launched her campaign for Georgia Labor Commissioner. Special Photo ATLANTA — Community organizer and advocate Michelle “Michi” ...

ALBANY – The people at Homerun Foods are homegrown, and on Saturday parent company Lanier Oil Co. is celebrating 60 years in a business that is now in its third generation of Albany natives. Started ...

ALBANY – Most U.S. post offices around the Albany area have a drop box where customers can drive up and drop off their mail. But the drop box at the post office on Meredyth Drive in Albany was removed ...

Albany skaters have been joining together to form plans and proposals for a new skate park after the old one was demolished by the city. Photo Courtesy of Alex Ranew. ALBANY – Three months ago Alex ...

Having grown up in rural northeast Alabama, I was exposed to a variety of accents. Of course, there was “Basic Southern,” in which a customer at my parents’ country store would come in and say “Howdy, ...

LEESBURG — Lee County welcomed the Georgia Rivers organization recently for the group’s first 2025 “Paddle Georgia” event. A group of 19 paddlers from all across the state paddled 10 miles of the ...

INDIANAPOLIS — For the third time in his decorated college career, Alex Karaban and UConn are in the Final Four. As tipoff for the 2026 national championship game approaches, Karaban knows only one ...

ALBANY – The 2025 “Chop It Up” Men’s Health Fair, a free community event focused on encouraging men to take charge of their health, will be held June 14 from 8 a.m.-noon at Albany State University’s ...

Your weekly dose of Albany news—straight to your inbox ...

A paragraph in The Economist made me curious and sad. It noted that Britain’s oldest manufacturer was up for sale. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London has been casting bells since at least 1570.

ALBANY — Four years after losing one son, longtime Albany football coach Charles Truitt and his family are mourning another heartbreaking loss. Brenton Truitt, a Monroe High School graduate, former ...

Volunteers with Builders for Christ construct the frame of a future foster family home in Calhoun County. Staff Photo: Lucille Lannigan EDISON – Wayne Trundle gazed up at the tall wooden frame of a ...