A simple marble marker in Riverside Cemetery notes 29-year-old William Frederick Black Jr. died Dec. 20, 1940, but says nothing about his heroic death. 

Macon is certainly on the nice list this year, as it made national news for its beautiful downtown Christmas light display.

A man who bought a blighted property in Macon with plans to renovate it is suing Macon-Bibb County because he says they “unconstitutionally” destroyed the site.

Envisioning a new MLK Blvd. gateway to downtown Macon: A bevy of burgeoning architects gathered on a vacant lot along Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. last week as Macon-Bibb County Commissioner Paul Bronson issued a challenge. 

Lake Tobesofkee could become a profitable tourist attraction with a more than $23 million unsolicited proposal offered to Macon-Bibb County to transform amenities at the 1,800-acre lake. Lovejoy Capital, led by a descendant of one of the most politically powerful families in Georgia history, wants to build a “luxurious and immersive experience in nature” with exotic “glamping.”

As the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office attempts to hire and retain deputies, officer pay has been a commonly-raised issue.

Dozens of Macon voters will have to explain to the elections board why their registered voting address was listed as a post office and not their home after the chair of the Bibb County Republican Party challenged hundreds of voter registrations.

Voting rights groups are investigating the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections for “voter irregularities’‘ after voters received ballots for the wrong districts during the May primary election, and the issue may not be resolved.

Macon-Bibb County has demolished more than 700 rundown, abandoned, hazardous buildings within the county, and while thousands still reportedly remain, one group is finding use for the land that’s left once a blighted building is destroyed.

Earth movers are making way for a major expansion that will bring 600 new jobs to First Quality Baby Products near Middle Georgia Regional Airport. 

State Rep. James Beverly (D-Macon) will not seek reelection after representing parts of Bibb County in the Georgia legislature for more than a decade.

One of two newly redrawn state house districts centered in Macon-Bibb County has its first, and for now only, candidate: Democrat Tangie Herring. 

According to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office, 37-year-old Johnifer Dernard Barnwell was arrested early Sunday morning in Augusta. 

The Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections begins a busy election year scrambling to find a new elections supervisor. Jeanetta Watson, who became the county’s first Black elections supervisor after Elaine Carr retired in 2012, resigned last week. Her last day is expected to be Jan. 21.

More than a dozen Delta Connection airplanes are riding out the COVID-19 pandemic at the Middle Georgia Regional Airport. Monthly rental income of $960...