The U.S. Department of Homeland Security does plan to build a facility to detain up to 10,000 people near an elementary school in Social Circle, a small town less than 40 miles south of Athens. Social ...

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff has written a letter to the head of the Department of Homeland Security pressing for details about a rumored Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility planned for a ...

Athens-Clarke County transportation officials are creating a new online dashboard tracking car crashes, injuries and deaths. Last year, 10 fatal crashes killed 14 people in Athens—a number exacerbated ...

The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center will host the truly spectacular Japanese drumming troupe Drum Tao. This performance, which mixes traditional Japanese drumming (wadaiko) with ...

Athens retro steel-guitar band Kinky Waikiki is heading up a benefit show for local mental health and musicians’ resource ...

Based in Oita Prefecture, Drum Tao is a wadaiko ensemble created on a foundation of Japanese tradition and blended with modern music and design. At the center of the performances are large taiko drums ...

A hearing requesting a retrial for Jose Ibarra, the immigrant convicted of killing Athens nursing student Laken Riley in 2024 ...

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House Republicans have proposed a major property tax overhaul that they say will save Georgia homeowners money but eliminate ...

With Gregory Frederick and Frank Russell behind the camera, Athens GA Live Music seeks to document local and touring bands ...

Woodcuts, lithography, screen printing, letterpress, etching, linocuts—all of these (and more) are printmaking, “the medium of the reproducible,” as Kayla Hall describes it. Hall is a member of the ...

A funeral will be held Tuesday for former University of Georgia president Michael Adams, died Jan. 25 at age 77 after a brief ...