A railway and a stretch of walking path run parallel to each other. Kudzu threatens to overtake the walking path.

Atlanta’s Beltline rail debate: To build or not to build?

The Atlanta Beltline began as a thesis about urban connection. When Georgia Tech graduate Ryan Gravel proposed a 22-mile rail-to-trail loop linking old freight corridors in 1999, he imagined a transit system that could tie together neighborhoods divided by highways. Two decades later, the trail is real, but the trains are not.  With the debate […]

Two women with their backs to the camera order off a menu on a TV above their heads. Another woman—the cashier—looks at them as they make their decisions.
‘We’ll be here until God wants us to be’: Venezuelans in Georgia live with uncertainty, ‘persecution’

As a result of increasing pressure from the Trump administration and ICE, many Venezuelans in Georgia have uncertain futures.

Attack email on Malhotra leads to escalating set of spats between council president candidates over public safety

Allies of local nonprofit leader Rohit Malhotra accused Marci Overstreet campaign consultant Fred Hicks of creating an attack website. Tension between the candidates has only risen since.

Atlantans gather in front of the Israeli consulate in Midtown Atlanta to protest the genocide in Gaza on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025.
Atlantans protest, reflect on 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza ahead of ceasefire
Members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which includes the COVID Vaccine, meet in Atlanta in September.
Georgians can now get updated Covid shots at pharmacies without a prescription
Students at Emory University set up a Gaza solidarity encampment on April 25, 2024.
Emory protesters’ First Amendment rights violated, attorney says
Matthew Cardinale sits beside the Savannah River.
Matthew Cardinale, 1981-2025, ¡PRESENTE!
Entrance to Emory University, which recently cut it's DEI programming and terminated a faculty member for a Facebook post about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
‘Crossing a line:’ Emory University cuts DEI and fires faculty over Charlie Kirk post

At Emory's first senate meeting of new school year, interim president Leah Ward Sears gave non-answers about cutting DEI and firing faculty for Facebook posts.

Meet the Atlanta City Council candidates: Toni Belin Ingram for District 11

Highlighting her skills in listening, building coalitions and fostering growth, District 11 candidate and Adams Park resident the Rev. Toni Belin Ingram names long-promised Campbellton Road Bus Rapid Transit her top priority.

Entry sign for the Atlanta City Detention Center, home to Atlanta and Fulton County's Center for Diversion Services.
Opinion — Rebranding punishment as care: Examining Fulton County’s recently approved mental health jail plan
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