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New Savannah VA Clinic finally on way
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a contract for its long-promised new medical clinic in Savannah to Johnson Development of Birmingham, Ala., which will build and manage the expanded...
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Savannah's Page Siplon resigns as head of Georgia Centers for Innovation
Page Siplon, executive director of the Georgia Centers for Innovation and architect of the globally recognized Georgia Logistics Summit, announced today that he is leaving his statewide post to take a...
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Home prices in Savannah increase Home prices in Savannah, including distressed sales, increased by 6.9 percent in November compared to the same month in 2013, according to CoreLogic, an international...
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TV makers design for streaming video to stay relevant
LAS VEGAS — Does anyone just watch TV anymore? The dramatic shift toward online and mobile viewing is driving television set makers to design as much for streaming video as for watching broadcast or...
View ArticlePresident Obama's executive order on immigration: Part 1 of 2
On Nov. 20, President Obama announced an immigration plan that will allow up to 5 million undocumented aliens to remain and work in the United States by deferring their deportations for three years at...
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Savannah's Siplon leaving Centers of Innovation
Page Siplon, executive director of the Georgia Centers of Innovation and architect of the globally recognized Georgia Logistics Summit, will leave his statewide post Jan. 15 to take a job in private...
View ArticleNew homes planned for Sun City, as stucco lawsuit creeps forward
While a faulty-stucco lawsuit involving thousands of homes in Sun City Hilton Head continues, the developer has asked environmental regulators for permission to add nearly a dozen new homes to the...
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Kroger, customers raise money for food bank Kroger customers and employees raised more than $50,000 for America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia during a November-December fundraising effort.More...
View ArticlePresident Obama's executive order on immigration: Part 2 of 2
In part one of this series, we examined the scope of President Obama’s recent executive order on immigration. This article will explore the elements of the order that relate to businesses, and...
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Veteran filmmaker hired to promote Savannah gets things started
The Savannah area has the enthusiasm, desire and potential to become a major southeast film center, but those attributes alone won’t make it happen, veteran moviemaker Ralph Singleton told the board of...
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Creative Coast kicks off entrepreneurial lecture series 1 Million Cups
The Creative Coast kicked off its new coffee and speaker series, 1 Million Cups, on Wednesday morning, giving two local entrepreneurs a chance to present their startups to a diverse cross section of...
View ArticleS.C. banned, fined Vogtle over waste shipment
Southern Nuclear Operating Company’s Vogtle site was fined $8,000 and temporarily barred from sending waste to South Carolina after environmental regulators said the company had violated the law...
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Coca-Cola cutting up to 1,800 jobs
NEW YORK — Coca-Cola says it will cut between 1,600 and 1,800 jobs in coming months to trim costs.The world’s biggest beverage maker says it began notifying workers in the U.S. and some international...
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Honda fined $70M for not reporting death, injury complaints
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Thursday it is fining Honda $70 million — the largest civil penalty levied against an automaker — for not reporting to regulators some 1,729 complaints that...
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Gulf States doubling capacity here
Gulf States Cold Storage, a private, Georgia-based firm that moved into the Savannah market just 18 months ago, will add 55,000 square feet to its local facility, doubling its cold-storage capacity...
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'Dean' of GPA board dead at 82
Sandersville native Hugh McMaster Tarbutton, longest-serving member and two-time chairman of the Georgia Ports Authority, died Wednesday in his hometown. He was 82.A longtime railroad executive and...
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Number of underwater Savannah mortgages declines A report Thursday by CoreLogic, a real estate information reporting firm, indicates 12.8 percent of all greater Savannah residential properties with...
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General and construction OSHA classes scheduledGeorgia Tech, an OSHA Training Institute Education Center, is bringing its occupational safety and health program to the coastal region with two courses:...
View ArticleNissan, NASA to work on autonomous car technology
TOKYO — Japanese automaker Nissan and NASA are teaming up to advance the technology behind cars that drive autonomously.Yokohama-based Nissan Motor Co. and NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field,...
View ArticleStreak of solid hiring bolsters confidence about 2015
WASHINGTON — A healthy month of hiring in December capped the best year for U.S. job growth since 1999, demonstrating that employers are more confident than they’ve been since the Great Recession...
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