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Columbus, Georgia, property owners face a Dec. 1 deadline for the remaining 60% of their 2026 property tax bills after the Oct. 15 deadline for the first 40% passed. The city's published 2026 tax digest estimates $93.36...
By Mark G · Oct. 22, 2026
Thu, Oct 22 · 12:00 PM
Pink & Pearls Tea Party!
Frank Chester Senior Center
Thu, Oct 22 · 4:00 PM
Church’s Texas Chicken Hosts Trunk or Treat Party in Columbus & Giving Away Free Chicken for a Year
Church's Texas Chicken
Thu, Oct 22 · 6:00 PM
Created in Columbus: Spotlighting Our Regional Creative Economy
The PATIO at Springer Opera House (Pierce Anderson Theatre in the Outdoors)
Sat, Oct 24 · 8:00 AM
Household Hazardous Waste and Electronics Collection Day
Columbus Recycling and Sustainability Center
Sat, Oct 24 · 8:00 AM
Hazardous Household Waste Recycle Event
Recycling Center
Sat, Oct 24 · 10:00 AM
Aloha Fall Luau
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Columbus, Georgia, residents can have fallen leaves, grass clippings, pine needles and other approved yard debris collec...
Oct. 22, 2026
Columbus, Ga., recorded its first nights in the 40s this fall, including a low of 43 degrees Tuesday, Oct. 20, after an...
Oct. 21, 2026
Columbus, Ga., will see sunset move from 6:50 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, to 5:49 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, when daylight saving...
Oct. 21, 2026
Columbus, Ga., has voted Democratic for president in nine consecutive elections since 1992, after voting Republican as r...
Oct. 21, 2026
Columbus, Ga., is Georgia's second-largest city by population, has the highest median household income among Columbus, A...
Oct. 21, 2026
Columbus, Ga., experienced its largest recorded Chattahoochee River flood on March 15, 1929, when the river carried an e...
Oct. 21, 2026
The best-rated Mexican restaurant in Columbus, Ga., isn't a big sit-down cantina with a margarita menu. It's Taco's N Th...
Oct. 21, 2026
The typical Columbus household earns $58,073 a year, about $19,300 less than the typical Georgia household and $22,700 l...
Oct. 21, 2026
Eight Columbus-area restaurants have scored a C on a Georgia health inspection so far in 2026, twice as many as in all o...
Oct. 21, 2026
Living across the river in Phenix City, Ala., is cheaper than living in Columbus, Ga., on most measures: the typical hom...
Oct. 21, 2026
A week after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, the Civil War came to Columbus, Ga. On Easter Sunday, April 16, 18...
Oct. 21, 2026
Columbus, Ga., is still Georgia's second-largest city, but only by 172 people. The U.S. Census Bureau's newest estimate...
Oct. 20, 2026
The Columbus Museum is giving Chattahoochee Valley residents two reasons to visit before October ends, with a free famil...
Oct. 20, 2026
The average Columbus worker spends 20.9 minutes getting to work, about 7 minutes less than the typical Georgian and 5½ m...
Oct. 20, 2026
Scoring a 100 on one health inspection is good. Scoring 100 on every inspection for nearly five years is rare. Columbus...
Oct. 20, 2026
Georgia anglers will have five specially managed trout streams to fish beginning November 1, when the state’s delayed ha...
Oct. 20, 2026
America’s housing market is showing new signs of weakness as mortgage rates climb and homebuilders struggle to attract b...
Oct. 19, 2026
First-time homebuyers in Columbus, Ga., can get up to $49,999 toward a down payment through the city's Sweet Home Columb...
Oct. 19, 2026
Earning $100,000 a year used to represent a major financial milestone for American workers. It suggested a comfortable h...
Oct. 19, 2026
Columbus has something many Georgia cities would love to have: a major riverfront, relatively affordable housing, establ...
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Columbus, Ga., has voted Democratic for president in nine consecutive elections since 1992, after vo...
Columbus voters heading to the polls November 3 will help decide who represents the region in the Ge...
3,466 people in Columbus had already voted in the Nov. 3 general election after the first day of ear...
Hispanic Heritage Month runs Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, and there's still time to celebrate the Latin...
Columbus and Phenix City residents came together Saturday morning for the 5th annual Tri-City Latino...
