Former Augusta Commission member Joe Bowles plans to run for the District 22 state Senate seat next year. He said Saturday he'll announce plans to run as an independent.

City Administrator Fred Russell said recently that the mills project is a "big reach" but "you're not going to have a big step forward" without some risk.

We don't know whether GRU President Ricar­do Azziz was red-faced after being called out for using university resources for his niece's wedding. But we do know he was proactive, calling for a ...

The next topic I’d like to explore also concerns raises, specifically some whopping ones the top docs at the Medical College of Georgia have received.

Each spring the swallows come back to Capi­strano; the buzzards come back to Hinck­ley, Ohio; and snow birds and Tiger watchers from all over the world come back to Augusta for the Masters ...

A monumental plan for GRU; Robin Williams and Charles Walker get a prison visit and proof that Marion Williams hasn't changed.

Augusta is a city of incongruities. It's the Garden City but has a lot of funky smells. It has a Kroc Center close to a crack center. It has Arts in the Heart and the Soul Bar. It's a city on the ...

In her parting letter to Dr. Ricardo Azziz, interim ASU President Shirley Strum Kenny minced no words critiquing his leadership of the two campuses he's supposed to be merging.

What was gained by the Augusta Commission's censure of Commissioners Wayne Guilfoyle, Joe Jackson and Grady Smith for violating the city code, I couldn't say. I could say it went on way too long.

Just when you think you've seen it all, something - say, altered photos - comes along to prove you wrong.

The McDonald's Coffee Club on Peach Or­chard Road is so upset over the big raises the Au­gusta Commission voted to give Richmond County Sher­iff Richard Roundtree and State Court ...

State Sen. Bill Jackson took some ribbing last week for telling legislative colleagues that hammers and frying pans kill more people than some guns do.

The Augusta Commis­sion's Stupor Bowl II took place Monday during commission committee meetings. Afterward, some usually long-winded commissioners said the meetings were lasting too long.

Now we have GRU, aka GRUsome; GRMC aka Grimace; CHOG; but no ASU.

Claire Perez, a graduate of La Sorbonne in Paris, wrote her impressions of last week's Augusta Commission meeting.

Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundt­ree has announced his media policy. Here it is, with a little creative editing: Pow! Hear this, you bunch of sniveling liars!

After simmering down for the holidays, politics was back on the front burner in Augusta.

Janus usually looks back on the old year and forward to make his predictions for the new year. But it was such an eventful year he’s going to focus mainly on 2012 with only a glance toward 2013.

If you're reading this, the world didn't end Friday as the ancient Mayans predicted.