A funeral celebrating the life of Houston County Sheriff Cullen Talton, a self-made lawman who became the nation’s longest serving sheriff, will be Wednesday at Southside Baptist Church in Warner Robins.
A partnership between Houston County Schools and the county health department is bringing primary health care closer to where children, and their adults, spend time.
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that a Georgia county illegally discriminated against a sheriff's deputy by failing to pay for her gender-affirming surgery. Houston County Sgt. Anna Lange had sued Sheriff Cullen Talton and the county in 2019 after she was denied coverage.
They say the chicken crossed the road to get to the other side, but folks in Houston County are asking about why a different bird is wandering about. Wandering the streets is a peacock, leaving onlookers surprised, social media delighted — and animal control on the hunt.
A state investment of $125 million dollars from federal COVID relief funds is helping grow school-based health through grants issued by the Georgia Department of Education.
Not long after receiving its first passing grade for ozone pollution from the American Lung Association, Fulton County is one of five Georgia counties that need to reduce soot in the air because the Environmental Protection Agency finalized stronger standards.
A 91-year-old Georgia sheriff says he will hand in his badge after more than 50 years as the county's chief lawman. Houston County Sheriff Cullen Talton has told WMAZ-TV that he won't seek reelection in 2024 and will step down at the end of his term.
Officials in Houston County said gender-affirming surgery for sheriff’s deputy Anna Lange was too costly. They spent more than $1 million on private lawyers in a fight to keep transition-related care from being covered by their health plan — far more than it would have cost the county to offer such coverage to all of its 1,500 health plan members.
With just under 100 days until Census Day, communities across Georgia are working to get the word out about the population count that happens every 10...
Most weekdays, Ana wraps up cleaning houses around 4 and gets in her car. That’s when she starts her second job: cruising the streets of Houston County...
Georgia is a hub of multiculturalism. At Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, there’s a new class tapping into that topic. It's called " Literary Tribalism...
Police aren't required by law to collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on immigration control. It's a choice. Athens-Clarke...
