Southeast

Bryan County leaders stop short of claiming their economy was recession- or depression-proof, but there is a widespread feeling here that the region fared much better than other parts of the state, thanks to two giant neighboring economic engines, the…

  The story of one Coffee County company’s resurrection, saving jobs once thought gone forever, is a study in unyielding faith and a Job-like patience by an entire community, with those who lived through it still recalling the time as…

  This year marks the 20th anniversary of a disastrous fire that leveled the D.L. Lee & Sons meat packing plant in Alma. The 1992 blaze, believed to have been caused by a lightning strike during a midnight storm, stopped…

  In the depth of the recent recession, it seemed that some of the luster was wearing off Brunswick and the storied Golden Isles of Glynn County: St. Simons Island, Little St. Simons, Jekyll and Sea Island. This region of…

  The lunch hour has ended at the Smooth Café in the historic district of downtown Savannah. Café owner Katie Koller and her manager, Gregory Cooper, are alternately visiting with a rep from the company that roasts their coffee and…

Rising up along a rural expanse of Georgia Highway 21 between Springfield and Rincon is a sprawling complex of high-ceilinged buildings. Tall metal exteriors are draped in large poster-like images of industrial scenes and, for Effingham County, a now familiar…

Brunswick and the Golden Isles of Glynn County have ample balm to soothe wounds from the current recession. The Port of Brunswick posted a 26.2 percent increase in tonnage from 2009 to 2010 and bolstered its standing as a major…

Business has been brisk in Savannah, and that’s an understatement. Things started picking up in 2009 when Mitsubishi’s Savannah Machinery Works moved into the megasite assembled by the state over the last decade in Pooler. This high-tech manufacturing center will…

There are days when Josh Fenn can sit in his office at the Bryan County courthouse in Pembroke and listen to the crack and rumble of tank fire coming from a nearby gunnery range on Fort Stewart, a sprawling U.S.…

It takes a while to traverse the 906 square miles of Ware County, the largest county east of the Mississippi, but it is a pleasant drive through seemingly endless stands of forests, some 474,000 acres of trees interrupted by just…