January 18, 2025 • Today on Athens News Matters, District 120 Representative Houston Gaines and District 122 Representative Spencer Frye reveal their priorities for this year's legislative session.

Athens Representative Houston Gaines has confirmed that legislation that would change the formation of the Athens-Clarke ...

just two months into his first term representing parts of Houston. His death was a shock; he posted a video on X just yesterday. In 2022, he said he had recovered from bone cancer and was cancer-free.

Houston Dynamo FC have acquired forward McKinze Gaines from Nashville SC in exchange for $75,000 in 2025 General Allocation Money (GAM), the clubs announced Monday. Gaines, 26, has three goals and ...

His 1993 novel “A Lesson Before Dying” won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Gaines died Nov. 5 at his home in Oscar, Louisiana. He was 86. The stories of “Lot” are set in Houston’s ...