Two nights before violence sent Darrin Ford to the floor of his downtown lounge again, he was discussing crime with colleagues crying out for more law enforcement. “Something absolutely has to be...

When most high school seniors are worried about choosing a prom dress or deciding where to go to college, Alexis Alexander was figuring out how to launch a coffee company.  In late 2020, she joined...

On average, July is Macon’s hottest and rainiest month and this July is even hotter and rainier. A heat dome over Georgia is causing temperatures to reach as high as 106 degrees while rainfall has increased...

Macon-Bibb County Commissioners learned of the U.S. Army's involvement in the Macon Violence Prevention project Tuesday morning. At the conclusion of the commission's committee of the whole, Capt. Hunter...

Construction is set to resume on two west Bibb County neighborhoods underway during the Great Recession of 2007-2008. Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commissioners agreed Monday to engineer...

When the Bloomfield-Gilead Recreation Center reopened last fall in the old south Macon Christian academy, Sabrina Wright wanted her daughter to embrace every opportunity in her own neighborhood. Not...

Time was almost up for one of east Macon’s oldest homesteads that fell prey to vandals. The clock has been ticking for the endangered DeWitt McCrary home off Main Street since a 2017 proposal to tear...

In 2021, gas prices appear to be rising, especially relative to 2020.  Filling up a 15 gallon tank, at $2.83 a gallon, would cost you $42.45 at the average Macon gas station. That $2.83 a gallon is...

Macon-Bibb County designated nearly half of its American Rescue Plan money to address housing, blight, food deserts, homelessness and boost tourism. Mayor Lester Miller said $37 million has been allotted...

New owners of a building on Cavalier Drive will have to wait at least six months to learn if they can use it as a re-entry home for inmates released from prison. Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning...

Artist Roy Scott sat daydreaming while overlooking downtown from the front porch of a decaying east Macon home, about six years ago. “I said to myself, ‘I have got to live in one of these homes....

Fireworks are a big deal in America, especially during Independence Day and the new year, but people will often unexpectedly set those explosives off any time of the year for any reason. Such explosives...