Passes for the Atlanta Braves’ 2019 Chop Fest autograph sessions will go on sale Friday at noon.

Longtime community advocate Barbara Hickey has died.

Paulding County commissioners will be seeking legal advice from someone other than their attorney for the last four years at their first meeting of 2019.

Local volunteers, nonprofits and veterans organizations are gearing up for the annual count of Cherokee County’s homeless population, which determines federal and state funding for homeless programs and resources in each Georgia county.

On Monday, from 7:30 to 9 a.m., Cobb County Commission chairman Mike Boyce will give the annual State of the County address at the Cobb Galleria Centre, 2 Galleria Parkway SE in the Cumberland area.

A divided Board of Commissioners pretty well mirrored the rest of Douglas County during its yearlong debate on creation of a fixed-route bus system.

The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide has announced free tax preparation services for low-to-moderate income taxpayers at multiple locations in Cobb County.

Waleska Mayor Doris Jones is retiring from her post after 12 years of service to the city, she announced in a resignation letter to the city council released today.

A major pump failure at the South Cobb Water Reclamation Facility has resulted in the release of a combination of rainwater, creek water and untreated wastewater into Nickajack Creek near the Chattahoochee River.

Marietta Tree Keepers invites volunteers of all ages to help plant trees in Marietta.

A “Blue Wave” spread across the country during the 2018 mid-term elections, and nowhere was it more apparent than in and around north Fulton County, where traditionally Republican electoral districts turned from red to blue as Democrats turned out to vote. With the flipping of several House …

Amid all the pomp and revelry the holiday brings with it, local public safety agencies said the first hours of 2019 were not out of the ordinary compared to past years.

Though their delivery process did not go as envisioned, Derryl Dickerson and Fabiola Vélez Colón ultimately welcomed their healthy baby girl into the world a lucky seven minutes after midnight Tuesday.

Every year as January arrives, New Year’s Resolutions are at the forefront of everyone’s mind. Some of us have a casual relationship with them– we may make them occasionally but don’t treat them as hard goals. Others take their resolutions much more seriously and will feel highly successful …

Prospects of a new municipality rising from Stockbridge and unincorporated Henry County property earned the proposed city of Eagle’s Landing its status as the Henry Neighbor’s 2018 newsmaker of the year.

Hope you’ve already spent those holiday gift cards.

The city of College Park has triumphed as the South Fulton Neighbor’s No. 1 newsmaker of the year.

The Cows Are Coming Home… on the Interstate Why did the cow cross the road? To Git to the Chikin, maybe? On three separate occasions in 2018, cows got loose on Atlanta’s interstates. Atlantans were asking “who let the cows out” in May, June and October as the livestock made their way around …

A judge on Friday approved the county development authority’s plan to issue $35 million in bonds and give tax breaks for a 30-acre office park, despite an east Cobb resident’s objections.

Acworth Assistant City Manager Brandon Douglas has been named the finalist for the city manager position with the city of Jasper.

The shopping center at the corner of Sandy Plains and Shallowford roads in northeast Cobb has been sold for $44.2 million.

The LakePoint Sporting Community, a 1,300-acre sports complex in Emerson just past the Cobb County border with Bartow, has exited its bankruptcy proceedings.

The early Thursday house fire in Powder Springs that claimed the life of a mother has also killed her 12-year-old son, Cobb officials announced Monday.

Douglas County officially will have some new county governmental and judicial officials joining some longtime judges in taking office Tuesday, Jan. 1.

A Ball Ground woman is among six defendants being accused by the federal government of being part of a scheme to claim more than $2 billion in illegal tax deductions.

Cobb Police were at the scene of a hostage situation midday Monday at a Marietta apartment complex.

Rain is expected to fall on Cherokee County Monday afternoon through Tuesday evening, as residents ring in 2019. However, the risk of severe weather is small, according to the National Weather Service.

The Special Olympics Indoor Winter Games is looking for volunteers for their events, located around Marietta and Cartersville, from Jan. 11-12.

Five Paulding County residents swore to a judge they will uphold the duties of their newly elected government offices recently.

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, you look a little brown to me.

Officials from Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services are urging fireworks safety this New Year, and shared a list of Do’s and Don’ts with the Tribune on Thursday.

Cobb County, once a member of the “solidly Republican” column in any poll, took on a decidedly bluer shade in 2018.

In 2018, Georgia elected a new governor, said goodbye to an old one, welcomed a new mayor of Atlanta, and cried over the death of a child who inspired millions. Here is a look back at the year we had. Disclaimer: These are presented in no particular order. Kemp rises to power We knew at […]

Georgia’s 2019 legislative session will convene Jan. 14, but three Republican members of the Cobb legislative delegation will be elsewhere when that happens.

Four decades after his death, U.S. Army Gen. Lucius D. Clay was honored this month with an international human rights award for his post-World War II efforts in Germany.

After winning Cobb’s closest legislative contest in November, state Rep.-elect Mary Frances Williams, D-Marietta, says her first term in the Georgia General Assembly will focus on learning what residents of District 37 want.

Those looking to ring in 2019 with a bang should get their bottle rockets and Roman candles lit before 1 a.m.

Mount Paran Christian School’s competitive cheer team has clinched the state cheering title for a seventh consecutive year.

Cobb County lost one of its most prominent and respected residents in 2018.

HICKORY FLAT — Rayna Lipsky, 10, has a best friend in her horse, Annie. Annie, a 13-year-old Welsh pony, has helped her owner with both Tourette’s syndrome and hearing loss for the past two years, and the team has earned top marks in state and regional equestrian competitions.

A Calhoun man is behind bars in the Cobb jail for allegedly firing a shotgun at an SUV with his infant child and his child’s mother seated inside, according to an arrest warrant.