As strange as it sounds, a 10-foot, 3-inch great white shark sporting a satellite tracking tag managed to swim more than 1,700 miles without giving away her location, according to the nonprofit OCEARCH.
The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing four land exchanges at the Cumberland Island National Seashore the agency says would protect important parcels now privately owned from development.
Coastal Georgia is the beneficiary of a fifth round of grants through Gov. Brian Kemp’s Rural Workforce Housing Initiative. Brunswick and Chatham County will receive more than $4.8 million for infrastructure supporting 129 housing units, Kemp announced late last week.
The City of Midway could lose its only firehouse after the interim chief and most of the volunteer firefighting force resigned Monday evening. A Georgia fire compliance officer has sent the city a letter giving it 30 days from that point to get the department back into compliance.
It’s a good time to review where the best local information on tropical weather and emergency planning resides. Listed below are sites and sources we at The Current look to in each of the coastal counties and at the national level.
Millions of dollars are going to Georgia farms and small businesses in an effort to help implement renewable energy technology, federal officials said Friday. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced $3.1 million dollars would go to farms and small businesses in rural Georgia from grants that mainly stem from the Inflation Reduction Act.
McIntosh County voters are scheduled for a countywide vote on the single issue of Hogg Hummock zoning on Oct. 1, 2024, even as the county heads to court to prevent the referendum from taking place.
Early in the morning a lifelong Savannahnian and a military veteran commute 50 minutes in a 15-year-old SUV from Savannah to the Hyundai Metaplant, the $7.56 billion electric vehicle factory rising from amid the pine forests of rural Bryan County.
The rift between Glynn County residents who see the people as threats to neighborhood safety and those working to improve outcomes for the homeless is festering this summer. Last month, County Commissioners tabled a vote on whether to permit a faith-based organization to build a night shelter for local men with jobs but nowhere to live and left advocates with no clear path forward.
Community groups in McIntosh County filed a petition in probate court Tuesday to force a county-wide vote on a controversial zoning change on Sapelo Island’s Hogg Hummock.
From a nuclear submarine base in Camden County to a maritime shipping warehouse in Savannah, sea level rise is threatening essential infrastructure up and down the Georgia coast.
The promise of "40 acres and a mule" is probably the most famous attempt at reparations for slavery in the U.S., but it is mostly remembered as a broken promise.
