One way Franklin County plans to balance growth with preserving rural areas is by updating its zoning ordinance for the first time since 1988 and creating two options for agricultural zoning.

Franklin County Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan continues to fight the foreclosure of her Mifflin Township home for not paying her mortgage. Brooks Sullivan's attorney filed a motion asking a ...

Once considered one of Florida's top courses, it's fallen into disrepair. Now the owner wants to put 1,100 more homes in the ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ark. (KATV) — A veteran state lawmaker is calling on Governor Sanders to use the money allocated to the Franklin County prison project to expand an existing prison saying that ...

Franklin County commissioners took the community by surprise last week when they made a sudden move to take control of the county’s jail and courthouse security. The decision was met with ...

Franklin County Sheriff Jim Raymond declared he would openly defy a court order after county commissioners voted to establish the Franklin County Department of Corrections, which would remove ...

Franklin County Sheriff Jim Raymond entered the jail Monday morning to seize 50 guns, despite a court order telling him not to take any weapons or equipment from the facility. A Benton County ...

Franklin County is launching a new program to help people leaving prison more smoothly reenter society. The county Common Pleaa Court, in conjunction with the Franklin County Prosecutor's office ...

There are countywide and municipal issues on ballots in Delaware, Fairfield, Licking and Madison counties. In Pickaway County, there are none.

His land is under contract pending the zoning change ... term plan for future uses of land across the City-County. The Franklin Township map has parts of the land labeled four ways: Regional ...