Columbus, Ga., politics and elections: city council, the mayor, the Georgia legislature, ballot guides and plain-English explainers.
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Democrats won both Georgia Public Service Commission seats on the Nov. 3 ballot, giving them a 3-2 major...
Nov. 10, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - State Rep. Carolyn Hugley, D-Columbus, the House minority leader, is in line to become the first Black w...
Nov. 9, 2026
PHENIX CITY, Ala. - Republican Tommy Tuberville won Alabama's governor's race on Nov. 3, defeating Democrat Doug Jones 8...
Nov. 9, 2026
PHENIX CITY, Ala. - Two school property tax renewals that voters rejected in May were ahead in unofficial returns from T...
Nov. 7, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Georgia allows a candidate to request a recount when the margin is 0.5% or less, and the request must be...
Nov. 6, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - A $70,003 emergency stairway repair at A.J. McClung Memorial Stadium was approved by the city manager Oc...
Nov. 6, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Democrats won Georgia's governor's race, retained a U.S. Senate seat and captured every statewide execut...
Nov. 4, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms won Georgia's governor's race Tuesday, Nov. 3, becoming the first Black wo...
Nov. 4, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Georgia's Nov. 3, 2026, election features an open governor's race, a U.S. Senate contest, three other st...
Nov. 2, 2026
PHENIX CITY, Ala. - Two school property tax renewals will return to the ballot Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, after failing to r...
Nov. 1, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Muscogee County voters have until Tuesday, Nov. 3, to cast ballots, and the county has already published...
Oct. 31, 2026
Columbus, Ga. - Democratic nominee for governor Keisha Lance Bottoms and U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop will hold a meet and g...
Oct. 30, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Friday, Oct. 30, is the final day of advance voting in Muscogee County for the Nov. 3 general election,...
Oct. 30, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Georgia voters who cast a ballot in person on Tuesday, Nov. 3, must show a photo ID, and the Georgia Sec...
Oct. 29, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - A total of 29,497 Muscogee County voters have cast early ballots in Georgia's 2026 general election, put...
Oct. 28, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Columbus Council will consider a proposed asphalt plant on Macon Road, an $8.6 million pickleball constr...
Oct. 27, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Muscogee County has recorded 25,626 early votes ahead of the Nov. 3 general election, putting turnout ab...
Oct. 26, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Georgia recorded a 15.21% error rate in food stamp payments during fiscal year 2025, the fourth-highest...
Oct. 25, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Georgia's foster care spending on direct services increased by $155.4 million in three years, rising fro...
Oct. 24, 2026
Columbus, Ga., has voted Democratic for president in nine consecutive elections since 1992, after voting Republican as r...
Oct. 21, 2026
Columbus voters heading to the polls November 3 will help decide who represents the region in the Georgia General Assemb...
Oct. 17, 2026
3,466 people in Columbus had already voted in the Nov. 3 general election after the first day of early voting, Tuesday,...
Oct. 14, 2026
Georgia voters are preparing to decide a series of elections that will shape the state's political leadership and could...
Oct. 13, 2026
Early voting starts Tuesday, and every Georgia ballot ends with three proposed changes to the state constitution: a bigg...
Oct. 12, 2026
A group of Georgia doctors on Friday sided with Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff on health care, a day after he and Repub...
Oct. 10, 2026
Georgia voters will decide three changes to the state constitution on Nov. 3: a bigger property tax break for large farm...
Oct. 7, 2026
For the first time since 2018, Georgia voters will choose a new governor. Gov. Brian Kemp can't run again because of ter...
Oct. 7, 2026
Near the bottom of your Nov. 3 ballot, below the races for governor and U.S. Senate, are two contests most Georgians hav...
Oct. 6, 2026
Early voting for the Nov. 3 general election begins Tuesday, Oct. 13, in Columbus. Muscogee County voters can cast a bal...
Oct. 5, 2026
Isaiah Hugley likes to describe where he started: a public housing apartment in Baker Village, a family on welfare, trip...
Oct. 5, 2026
When Columbus voters head to the polls this fall, they'll find three proposed changes to the Georgia Constitution near t...
Oct. 5, 2026