5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (518+ words) It is a place geared toward planning for the future, but Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport officials took a moment Tuesday morning to preserve the past. Airport and city leaders gathered at the top of a hill, as jet engines roared…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1291+ words) ELLABELL ― At the Hyundai Metaplant test track, newly assembled EVs and hybrids bump over a cobblestone road, turn figure eights on a skid pad and brake squeal through a hairpin turn. The course challenges drivers as well as cars. Another…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (263+ words) Last September, a government agency ordered Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and its Mexican partner Aeromexico to dissolve a nearly 10-year-old joint venture allowing the carriers to coordinate scheduling, pricing and capacity for U.S.-Mexico flights. Now, more than a year later,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (367+ words) Rates at MARTA’s long-term parking garages will increase next month, the first price increase at some stations in more than a decade. MARTA has nine long-term parking garages. Starting Sept. 14, the rates at all nine will go up $2 per day…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (410+ words) Technology is available to prevent hot car child deaths The recent tragic death of a child in a hot car renewed calls for technical ways to prevent these accidents. There is already a device that does this: Evenflo’s SensorSafe child-seat…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (270+ words) Fulton County voters will decide this fall whether to extend a 0.75-cent sales tax that pays for transportation projects throughout the county. County commissioners and representatives from 14 cities in north and south Fulton County have approved a list of projects…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (848+ words) Cherokee Avenue has had a protected bike lane since late 2022 as part of now-gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms’ Safer Streets plan, but in May, Atlanta Department of Transportation added a wrinkle that has stymied at least a few drivers, leaving…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1377+ words) BUSAN, South Korea — When the quest to add the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge to the World Heritage List began in 1982, no one could have predicted it would take more than four decades to complete. But Saturday night, the long endeavor…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (378+ words) As MARTA’s nationwide search for a permanent chief approaches its second year, interim CEO Jonathan Hunt says he wants to keep the job. Hunt made his remarks in a video interview with Atlanta News First on Thursday. “MARTA is an…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (902+ words) My daughters boarded their school bus at 7:10 each morning last school year. On many winter mornings, it was still dark. Under permanent daylight saving time, it would be darker still. Atlanta’s latest winter sunrise would move from about 7:43 to 8:43 a.m.,…...