Latest news, weather and high school sports for Albany and Southwest Georgia

Thursday, February 14, 2013  Updated with video; County Line Road and Railroad Street are seeing water levels rise higher than they ever have before.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012  The July 25, 2010, pipeline rupture spread oil across roughly 35 miles of the Kalamazoo River near Marshall, Mich., fouling wildlife habitat and closing a large swath of the river to boaters and anglers.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011  Focus shifts to Senate after House ignores Obama veto threat and OKs payroll tax cut measure

Tuesday, December 13, 2011  Obama and congressional Republicans move toward showdown over oil pipeline and tax breaks

Tuesday, September 27, 2011  No regs are good regs: Rand Paul single-handedly blocks pipeline safety bill on principle

Wednesday, July 06, 2011  Documents detail Exxon's Yellowstone response as surging river raises fears spill could spread

Monday, July 04, 2011  Exxon claims Montana spill limited but governor doubtful, says company needs to look harder

Wednesday, September 15, 2010  The Obama administration wants Congress to tighten oversight of the nation's pipelines and more than double penalties for some safety violations in response to a deadly gas explosion in California and a major oil spill in Michigan.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010  The natural gas explosion in a California neighborhood destroyed about 3 dozen houses and left about a dozen people either dead or missing. But what are the chances of that happening in Southwest Georgia?

Tuesday, September 14, 2010  The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.

Sunday, August 01, 2010  U.S. regulators earlier this year demanded improvements to the pipeline network that includes a segment that ruptured in southern Michigan, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River

Tuesday, July 20, 2010  County Commissioners approved a “Grant of Easement” to solidify an agreement between the county and the MCLB for land needed to make a pipeline.

Thursday, February 11, 2010  Putin calls Baltic Sea gas pipeline 'safe and reliable'

Monday, October 20, 2008  The company that runs Georgia's main gas pipeline is hoping to expand its network to unclog a choke point between Louisiana and Atlanta.

Thursday, September 04, 2008  A senior U.S. diplomat says a Western-backed gas pipeline from energy-rich Turkmenistan across the Caspian Sea to the European market remains a viable proposition despite the emergence of rival routes linking the country to Russia and China.