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 ...

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 ...

SPARTA — A new life could be in the offing for the old Sparta Foundry site, vacant since 2004, if the Kent County Commission later this month follows a recommendation to turn over the property ...

SPARTA -- Spectrum Health's plan to combine two primary-care services into a new facility at M-37 and 12 Mile Road includes a land-transfer agreement between the village and Sparta Township. After ...

The Monroe County Land Conservation Building and Museum Complex Building in Sparta were struck by lightning March 21 and departments are struggling to repair technology. Land Conservation, Monroe ...