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The vote sets how much county property tax Franklin County residents will pay for 2026, capping a budget and millage cycle that also funded a new Industrial Building…
The county will replace the Extension Office's roughly 20-year-old van after commissioners approved the funding.
The county's new 911 radio system, including towers, determines how emergency calls and dispatch communications are handled countywide.
The authority's 5-1 vote clears a taxation and economic development agreement tied to a proposed $1.25 billion Walmart fulfillment center project expected to bring 954 full-time jobs.
The draft permit sets nitrogen oxide and other emission limits for diesel emergency generators at a Clayton County data center project…
The pending change would let the asphalt plant swap in new equipment under state-set limits on production, diesel fuel use and sulfur content meant to control air…
The board recognized the county's emergency management efforts with a formal proclamation.
Georgia's environmental agency is reviewing a permit that would let Apex Site Solutions run diesel emergency generators at a Hampton data center…
The added generators and fire pumps would push the data center's air emissions high enough to make it a major source requiring a federal Title V permit.
The county gives up its right to a waterline easement it said it has never used and has no future need for.
Residents and non-residents dropping off loads by trailer or box truck at the county's convenience centers will now pay more.
The state air permit now relies on continuous NOx monitoring instead of earlier compliance-monitoring conditions on the plant's combustion turbine and duct burner stacks.