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Floyd County is working on a new employee training program to improve how the government functions and departments cooperate.
ATLANTA — A unanimous Georgia House voted 171-0 Wednesday for a $140 million state income tax cut, in what Republicans hope is just a first step in further tax relief.
Cave Spring officials are wary but hopeful that a sewer improvement project will begin next month after the city council awarded the construction bid to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
As Atlanta Gas Light contractors prepare to start digging trenches for a gas pipeline running under Charlton and Division streets, their main concern is the installation of steel plates on the roadway.
Rome restaurateur Jeremy Duke along with his stepfather Truman Webb and Tyson Dube have acquired the Shrimp Boat on Second Avenue.
A stalled train on the Norfork-Southern track that crosses Second Avenue at Glenn Milner Boulevard snarled morning traffic Wednesday but was removed shortly before 11 a.m.
Rome city commissioners are ready to get plans moving for the River District.
ATLANTA — With legislation aimed at legalizing parimutuel betting on horse racing stuck in a Georgia Senate committee, a House panel aired a new version of the measure Tuesday.
ATLANTA — A $1.9 trillion federal COVID-19 relief package moving in Congress that would send aid directly to cities and counties has drawn backlash from Gov. Brian Kemp, who says its funding formula shortchanges Georgia.
The Rome Floyd Chamber is partnering with other community groups to increase the workforce pool available to local industries.
The Rome-Floyd Planning Commission will be reviewing hobby farm regulations once again at their Thursday meeting.
ATLANTA — Republican state lawmakers took a major step Monday toward overhauling voting by mail and other election procedures in Georgia with passage of an omnibus bill by the state House of Representatives along party lines.
Legislation allowing visits from some family members, caregivers and legal representatives of Georgians in hospitals or nursing homes during emergencies like COVID-19 advanced in the state House of Representatives on Monday.
ATLANTA — Legislation that would make significant changes to regulations governing Georgia’s coin-operated amusement machines got some pushback Monday from lobbyists representing the industry.
Rome and Floyd County are still searching for that next large industry to bring jobs to the community, however, efforts to assist local companies to grow are not going unnoticed.
Two Rome residents are among the first wave of appointees to the state’s new COVID-19 Health Equity Council.
The Cave Spring City Council has a work session called for Tuesday that includes a discussion of the direction its Downtown Development Authority will take.
If 2020 was the Year of COVID, then it was also the year Americans rediscovered their love for nature. Visitation to the Little River Canyon west of Rome on Lookout Mountain reached an all-time high, with more than 802,000 people visiting the national preserve over the course of the year.
Thursday will mark 100 years since Congress approved the money to construct the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of World War I on the then-newly installed plaza of the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery.
New duplex homes being built by the Northwest Georgia Housing Authority in Summerville Park have been fully leased up, with future residents anxiously awaiting their completion.
ATLANTA — First-time unemployment claims fell again in Georgia last week, mirroring a decline in jobless claims nationwide as more and more businesses shut down by the coronavirus pandemic reopen.
Envisioning an event plaza with food and artisan retail space as the door to the River District, an innovative plan intends to breathe additional life into the area around West Third Street.
Replicas, artifacts, photos and more — these are things to see at the new Rivers Exhibit dedicated to steamboat Dixie at the Rome Area History Center on Broad Street.
The Fairview School in Cave Spring has been honored by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation with its 2020 Excellence in Restoration Award.
“You are a precious caterpillar, wrapped in a sweet cocoon, who’ll emerge a beautiful butterfly in heaven way too soon.”
The Northwest Health District division of Georgia’s Department of Public Health will officially stop free COVID-19 testing in March as they prepare to focus more of their resources on vaccinations.
ATLANTA — The money deposited in nine state-run trust funds could be used for no other purpose under legislation that cleared the Georgia House Appropriations Committee Friday.
ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers are considering a reorganization of the public health system that would strip power from county boards of health and give it to the state public health commissioner, saying the COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need for a more centralized structure.
The juror summons are sent and Floyd County Superior Court is preparing to resume jury trials on March 15, contingent on any further state Supreme Court orders.
Kevin Walls, with more than 25 years of experience in the paper industry has taken over management at the International Paper Containerboard Mill in Rome.
ATLANTA — Preschool and K-12 school employees, adults with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers and parents of children with complex medical conditions will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in Georgia starting March 8.
Just as drivers top Ward Mountain, they’ll notice a white sign wrapped in a purple bow on the right side of the road.
The Armuchee community is getting a new Dairy Queen.
A bill to tighten rules for allowing ex-offenders in Georgia to be released early from probation that should help thousands of people maintain jobs and housing passed out of the state Senate on Thursday.
ATLANTA — A bridge over a portion of the Port of Savannah would be named in honor of former U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., under a resolution the Georgia House of Representatives passed unanimously Thursday.
The Rome News-Tribune will begin publishing electronic versions, or E-editions, on Sunday and Monday beginning Monday, March 1.
The mass annexation of the Celanese/Riverside community into the city limits is being taken off the table by the Rome Redevelopment committee.
ATLANTA — The Georgia Senate unanimously passed bipartisan legislation Wednesday calling for the most thorough review of the state’s tax laws in more than a decade.
Five people were recognized for their contributions and achievements in the area as part of the county commission’s Black History Month recognition.
ATLANTA — The Georgia Senate passed legislation Wednesday that would put the Peach State on standard time all year.
Medicare is lowering payments to 18 Georgia hospitals due to their high rates of infections and other patient injuries.
The role of government is to provide opportunities for the private sector to flourish, Rome’s mayor said.
A third K-9 unit will be added to the Floyd County Police Department after an anonymous citizen donated $21,000 to the department back in January.
The Burwell Creek trailhead will remain closed past the previously estimated date of March 1 after Atlanta Gas Light construction workers ran into an equipment issue while boring the area of the creek.
Stricter identification rules for voting by mail in Georgia inched closer to law with the state Senate’s passage of a controversial bill on Tuesday.
A Silver Creek man who was on the tracks south of Rome Monday afternoon was killed when hit by a freight train near the Hall Road intersection.
David Perdue, who lost to Jon Ossoff in January’s runoff for one Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats, announced Tuesday he has decided not to run for the seat in 2022 after a high-profile and drawn-out election.
