After years of work, Historic Athens is moving forward with the transformation of the historic Beech Haven into a public park ...

The flats existed as a sandbar since before Europeans arrived. Henry Hudson, the English explorer, ran aground on the flats ...

July 26, 2004 -- The city of Athens is glowing with fresh paint and crowded with shining limousines as Greece prepares to host the 2004 Olympic Games. Western culture owes a lot to the Greeks -- they ...

Kimberly Davis can trace her family's roots in Athens back four generations. Her lineage is a point of pride. But she knows not everybody feels that way. "Let's be honest: A lot of people don't want ...

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck Monday north-northwest of Nea Styra, a coastal town on the Greek island of Evia, the U.S.

A local nonprofit is leading an effort to rename a new downtown park in honor of two trailblazing Black legislators from Athens.

Athens-Limestone County Tourism revives its popular Haunt Walk & Wagon Tours this October, blending local history, folklore, ...

Oct. 29—On Jan. 4, 2023, the Athens News Courier began its 150th volume — the number that correlates to the number of years a newspaper has published. Typically a newspaper's volume number would ...

On Wednesday, lovers of all things haunted went to Graduate Athens to celebrate the launch of local author Tracy L. Adkins’ sophomore book, “Ghosts of Athens and Beyond: History and Haunting of North ...

ATHENS, Texas (KLTV) - It is the end of a new beginning for a school that opened in the city of Athens in 1955, but its history is not being erased. The R.C. Fisher school in Athens will soon be ...