Columbia County has a new cheerleader. Randy DuTeau is the new executive director of the county Convention and Visitors Bureau, CVB Board Chairman Rick Crawford announced Monday. "It was just a good opportunity," Crawford...

The Columbia County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved an increase in fees for the next five years for the recreation department's youth sports programs.

Summer is officially here, and lawns and flowers need water.

Some Columbia County leaders intend to extol the virtues of their community Friday at the Interstate 20 welcome center for National Tourism Week.

After researching a potential pet spay/neuter voucher program, members of a Columbia County advisory board and the county's Community and Emergency Services Committee decided not to implement the idea.

Early voting for the presidential preference primary begins Monday.

...Elite Series, which will return to Thurmond Lake next May for the fourth consecutive year. Beda Johnson, the director of the county's Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the grant is wonderful news -- and will ensure that the ramps can be...

The park county officials commonly refer to as a "diamond in the rough" is becoming more valuable, officials say.

Largely because Michelle Wie's golfing abilities still are mostly of a figment of hyperventilating sports writers' imaginations, the Masters Tournament this week will once again feature a male-only field of competitors.

One of the county commission's arguments for the incorporation and consolidation proposal was that it would make Columbia County a bigger "dot" on the map."