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Georgia's environmental regulator has proposed blaming elevated fine-particle pollution at an Augusta monitor on smoke from permitted burning, a finding that could affect how the reading counts toward…
State environmental regulators are documenting that widespread prescribed burning, not other pollution sources, may explain a fine-particle air quality exceedance recorded at an Augusta monitor last year.
Georgia's environmental agency says smoke from dozens of permitted burns near Augusta, not routine pollution, caused a fine-particle air quality exceedance recorded in February 2025.
The draft could let state regulators exclude smoke from prescribed burns when judging whether the Macon area meets federal fine-particle air quality standards.
The council is set to weigh in on budgeted purchases that go beyond what the city manager can approve on his own.
The city council has put the 2026 property tax rate on its agenda, a figure that determines residents' upcoming tax bills.
The city has funded design work for storm drainage fixes on Schaefer Court, but has not yet acted on a construction bid.
The authority has voted several times since early 2025 to go behind closed doors on buying or selling property, but no public record shows what property or what…
The city is weighing a resolution to authorize the mayor to sign an agreement setting up a floating homestead exemption sales tax…
The council is opening the FY 2027 budget process to public input before any spending plan is adopted.
The authority continues selling and building out Phase II of the county's business park, with one building under construction and another held up by a city permitting change.
The city's downtown development budget grew, a figure that shapes what the Main Street program can spend on Royston's downtown.