SPARTA, Ga. — A controversial railroad that would cut through a historically Black neighborhood of Sparta was given another green light from the Georgia Public Service Commission on Thursday.

Sparta is a small rural town and home to just 1,300 people in Hancock County, Georgia. According to census data, 70% of the county's population is Black and almost one in three people live in poverty.

Sparta’s Black history dates back to the Jim Crow era in the Deep South, when Blaine Smith managed to purchase 600 acres of land and started a company farming cotton, then peas, butter beans ...

The Spartan army clash with the Thebans and general Epaminondas at the Leuctra battlefield signified the end of Sparta's ...

SPARTA, Ga. — Families from Sparta, Georgia went to the Georgia Public Service Commission to condemn the railroad development a Washington County company is doing. Last year, we reported ...