Keri Stevens said she regrets the fact that they don’t really make buildings the way they used to. She said she admires classic Atlanta structures like the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills in the Cabbagetown neighborhood. When an F2 tornado tore through...

The DeKalb County School System’s budgetary outlook could see an additional $13 million to $18 million in property tax revenue, but district officials are holding their breath before celebrating. The county’s tax digest, initially projected by co...

Sitting outside a breakfast restaurant in downtown Decatur on July 23, Stan Watson was already wondering how the CEO and the board of commissioners might better communicate with each other when the next budgetary season arrives in December. “I donâ...

Summer reading programs first started in the late 1800s to give urban students something to do during their breaks while their rural counterparts sweated it out on the farm. Now they’ve got a new purpose: stanching our youth’s collective summer b...

Former state representative Stan Watson easily defeated three other candidates in the race for the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners’ district 7 seat. Watson won 68 percent of the July 20 vote, according to preliminary county results. Kathryn Ri...

U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson fended off Vernon Jones and Connie Stokes in the Democratic primary July 20 and will face Republican Liz Carter in November’s general election. Johnson narrowly avoided a runoff for the 4th congressional district that could h...

The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners voted to slash hundreds of county government jobs this month, overriding CEO Burrell Ellis’ veto of the cuts several weeks ago. But the board also voted to allow the county to fill nearly 220 new positions t...

The DeKalb County School System could have a new superintendent by April, according to a school district’s statement attorney to school board members late last month. But some board members said they wanted the search timeline accelerated considera...

A handful of bus routes that had been on the chopping block for months were saved at the last minute before MARTA approved sweeping cuts of bus and train service. None of those routes were in DeKalb County, however. MARTA’s new $710 million budget ...

Five candidates seeking to unseat Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson in November vowed June 22 to create jobs, secure American borders to keep out terrorists and illegal immigrants and improve regional transportation.   The Champion Newspaper and the Lea...