Athens Georgia Travel Guide

Cooks can bring their own best dish to be judged, or enter with others as a team.

Kevin Barnes is a lyrical savant who's capable of weaving together seemingly disparate topics into a colorful narrative of thoughts and feelings and ideas and observations he expels in streams of inspired brilliance too clever and literary and pop art appealing for their own good.

It's been a great seven years for the Bulldog statues around Athens - a 2003 project of the Athens-Oconee Junior Woman's Club.

Students in Rachael Parr's seventh-grade life science class at East Jackson Middle School learn more than what they glean from the pages of a textbook or the lines of a lecture.

Nobody likes to pay taxes. Editorial: Tax reform will be question of balance Published Nobody likes to pay taxes.

Authorities have broken up a suspected theft ring that may be responsible for dozens of burglaries, car break-ins and other crimes in Clarke, Madison and surrounding counties, officials said.

Among the first to congratulate Greg McGarity on being named Georgia athletic director was Branden Kowz - this needs explaining, but the reason for its telling is that it offers a warm perspective about the new chief of the Bulldogs.

Former governor and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Roy Barnes talks with MCG doctors Dr.

The Twin Tigers and the Steve Miller Band likely never have been linked before, but the former is living out one of the latter's songs.

Heritage at Apalachee, 6:30 p.m.; Clarke Central at Cedar Shoals, 5 p.m.; Prince Avenue Christian at Social Circle, 5:45 p.m.; East Jackson at Jackson County, 5:55 p.m.; North Oconee at Jefferson, 5:55 p.m.; Madison County at Winder-Barrow, 6:30 p.m.; Hebron Christian at Prince Avenue Christian, 4:45 p.m. VOLLEYBALL Athens Academy at Prince Avenue ...

In a state decimated by a global recession, tourism is more important than ever, Gov.

An Oglethorpe County government worker and five other people face charges as part of a monthlong investigation into a marijuana-growing operation.

A 14-year-old Coile Middle school student was arrested Tuesday after he set off a bottle of pepper spray in his math class, according to Athens-Clarke police.

An Athens woman stabbed her girlfriend to death in their home, then lied to police about how she died, a grand jury alleged in an indictment returned this week in Clarke County Superior Court.

State and federal authorities have arrested 54 people on charges of lying to get $1.1 million in government housing subsidies, and they plan to arrest dozens more.

The Georgia State Golf Association announced Wednesday that Athens' Billie Wickliffe will be part of the four-person induction class into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in January.

An officer patrolling the 200 block of Oak Street on Tuesday night recognized a man who was wanted by Atlanta police on an aggravated assault charge, Athens-Clarke police said.

Here is a map of crimes reported by the Athens-Clarke County Police and University Police Department.

Brute is the collaborative output of Vic Chesnutt and Widespread Panic . Their shared Athens, GA roots allowed for a beautiful concoction.

On a recent hot summer morning, Lee Moon walked casually along the sidewalk at Jennings Mill Country Club in Athens, his sports bag and tennis racquet in hand and sweat on his brow.