Kennesaw residents packed the room at Tuesday’s city council meeting to protest a proposed industrial warehouse and distribution center from moving in next door to their homes.

It could soon become much easier for Cobb residents to tend backyard chickens, whether their neighbors like it or not.

When Wendi and Henry Perkins left Mobile, Alabama, bound for a Thanksgiving holiday with family in Cobb County, they thought they’d have nearly three more months to prepare for the birth of their first child, Violet.

Two men have been charged in connection with an armed robbery of a customer at a Woodstock gas station on Thursday, authorities aid.

ACWORTH — The 2020 Cherokee Film Summit drew a crowd Thursday to connect people in the county’s growing film industry at the Yanmar Evo Center.

More legislation is being pursued to further reduce distracted driving in Georgia, following the perceived success of the state’s hands-free law.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating an apparent inmate suicide that occurred in the Cherokee County jail on Thursday, authorities said.

MARIETTA — Just like in the popular television show “Cheers,” Marietta residents had a place where everybody knew their name.

Mayor Boyd Austin of Dallas announced his intention to run for the Georgia State Senate in District 31.

The Canton Planning Commission recommended approval of two requests involving the addition and operation of a cell tower at 1130 Bluffs Parkway at their meeting on Tuesday.

CUMBERLAND — Cobb residents will be able to rent a bicycle at any of the county’s bike share stations and ride to any such station in the metro Atlanta region if the Cumberland Community Improvement District has its way.

The city of Sandy Springs is going to court again in an effort to remove two billboards.

As more air testing is planned in Cobb County and around the state to determine levels of a carcinogen used daily by the medical sterilization industry, residents near a plant in the Smyrna area wait to see what its future, and theirs, holds.

The Marietta Fire Department announced that its yearly recruiting process is now open to applicants until Jan. 31.

Woodstock Mayor Donnie Henriques will deliver his State of the city address at the regular mayor and council meeting 7 p.m. Monday at the Chambers at City Center, 8534 Main St.

The Woodstock Police Department, in conjunction with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, conducted an ICAC operation last week targeting online predators.

The Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 2019 accomplishments and announced its 2020 primary goals during the organization’s 49th Annual Meeting held Thursday.

The South Fulton Neighbor recently sat down with the newly elected mayor of College Park, Bianca Motley Broom, to discuss her priorities, goals and how she hopes to bring positive changes to the city.

The Lady Trojans basketball team recently christened Lassiter High School’s new $15.6 million, 3,000-seat gym, construction on which began in 2018.

Cobb County is poised to take one of its biggest step, to date, toward addressing complaints from its police officers, firefighters and sheriff's deputies that they aren't making enough money. 

Charges are pending against a driver who collided with a Marietta school bus while traveling in a turn lane on Powder Springs Street near Oregon Trail on Thursday afternoon, according to Marietta police.

EAST COBB — While plans for redevelopment are still being worked up at an east Cobb shopping center left dilapidated for years, one building sitting just in front could be revived as soon as this summer.

Cobb County has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the metro Atlanta region, the latest federal data shows.

MARIETTA — A proposal that would have encouraged development in an industrial swath of southeast Cobb — which includes the controversial Sterigenics’ facility — was pulled by its sponsor this week.

ATLANTA — State budget cuts could hit mental health services hard in Georgia, forcing behavioral health officials to pump more money into handling crisis situations instead of programs to prevent those situations, the state’s mental health chief said Thursday.

Twenty five years after his father and namesake was named First Citizen of Cherokee County, that honor was bestowed upon Billy G. Hasty Jr.

A Kennesaw man is behind bars without bond after police said he repeatedly rammed a female driver’s car with his own vehicle as they drove along a mile stretch of one of the city’s main streets.

MARIETTA — A majority of the Marietta Gateway Community Improvement District’s board members failed to show at this week’s meeting, prohibiting the board from voting on anything.

The city of Woodstock is one of four municipalities recently recognized by the Atlanta Regional Commission for demonstrating leadership in sustainability practices.

The city of Roswell will begin construction to realign Oxbo Road and Oxbo Drive in February. 

With the goal of renewing the lives of the homeless, Nicholas House will host its annual New Beginnings Luncheon March 27 at 11:30 a.m. at The Four Seasons in Midtown.

Canton City Manager Billy Peppers has officially named Stephen Merrifield the new chief of police, removing the interim label.

The DeKalb County Community Development Department announced it is surveying unincorporated areas of the county in an effort to “eradicate blight and revitalize properties.”

The city of East Point is one of 50 cities being recognized for using cutting-edge technology to digitally transform communities. The Smart 50 Awards, in partnership with Smart Cities Connect, Smart Cities Connect Foundation, and US Ignite, annually recognize global projects to honor the most innovative and influential work. This year’s categories included community engagement, digital transformation, smart mobility, urban infrastructure and urban operations. Dominic Maldonado, East Point’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Coordinator, and Farhad Islam, East Point’s IT Director, are finalists in the Digital Transformation category with their project titled 2020: A Spatial Odyssey.

When Janell Cannon wrote “Stellaluna,” a best-selling children’s book about a baby fruit bat, she did so for two reasons.

The third time was the charm.

The argument over whether or not Fulton County should relinquish its title as a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) entitlement community wages on.

For 2020, Fulton County has a general fund budget of $782 million, a whopping $63.3 million more than the previous year and a new record.

Georgia lawmakers on both sides of the aisle showed hesitation last Wednesday to sign off on budget cuts Gov. Brian Kemp has proposed for criminal justice and public safety agencies through July 2021.

Three well-known fast food restaurants have signed leases to join Marketplace Terrell Mill, the upcoming east Cobb mixed-use development on the former site of Brumby Elementary School.

Protections are being sought by Georgia Senate Democrats against racial discrimination toward hair styles like braids, locks and twists.

CUMBERLAND — Millions of dollars in savings on debt service payments are expected to benefit those who finance Kennesaw State University, thanks to a decision by the Development Authority of Cobb County.

Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren slammed the ACLU on Wednesday, saying its allegation that a “new policy” banning the MDJ is “false and misleading.”

The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners held a pair of public hearings at Tuesday night’s meeting before taking action on both cases.

A former Cobb County high school teacher accused of threatening to blow up a local elementary school is attempting to clear her record, court documents show.