Columbus’ Calvin Smyre, who was the longest-serving member of the Georgia House of Representatives, was honored Wednesday as the intersection of I-I85 and Macon Road was named the State Representative Calvin Smyre Interchange.
A lawsuit filed by the Columbus-based National Ranger Memorial Foundation to restore the name of a Confederate officer to the memorial and to the elite Army unit’s hall of fame at Fort Moore has been dismissed.
Leapfrog Group, the health care watchdog nonprofit, uses responses from a voluntary survey and other data collected by federal agencies to grade hospitals on safety.
The Muscogee County Board of Elections and Registration has sued the State Election Board in Georgia to block a new rule requiring a hand count of ballots, saying the move is too late in the process and it will “dramatically” alter election work.
Since its inception in 2000, Trees Columbus’ goal has been to protect and restore Columbus’ tree canopy, which has declined over time. But with little resources and funding, the nonprofit hasn’t been able to make the desired sizable shifts in the urban forest.
Columbus is no stranger to show business, and now here’s another opportunity to find your way onto the small screen. The Emmy-winning Netflix hit, “Stranger Things” is cranking up for season five, and the production team is looking for people to play extras.
A billion-dollar company wants to replace taxis and rideshare apps such as Uber and Lyft with an electric helicopter service, and they plan to make the choppers in Georgia.
Despite the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper organization existing for 30 years, with roots in Atlanta, the nonprofit that serves as a watchdog for river pollution only began consistently monitoring in the Columbus area in the last few years. Thanks to an expanding staff, a new water quality lab partnership at Columbus State University and tips from locals concerned about water quality, the riverkeepers are showing up more often to test water in the river and creeks.
When he was first commissioned into the Army, Curtis Buzzard thought he’d only be in for five years. More than 30 years later, he is a major general wrapping up his two-year command of Fort Moore.
It’s 60-hotdogs long and 24-hotdogs tall and when she finishes her yearlong journey, Columbus native Sarah Oney will have driven with her copilot one of the six famous Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles around 20,000 miles to more than 200 events across the midwestern United States.
More delays have been announced for three local Columbus pools that are currently closed to the public, threatening to not open at all until after children go back to school in August.
More than 22,000 formerly enslaved people are found in records from Columbus that were released in a new project from Ancestry, one of the world’s largest genealogy companies.
