SPARTA, Wis. (WEAU) - Nearly a decade ago, the city of Sparta bought nearly 200 acres of land on the city’s south side to create the South Pointe Business Park. The city made plans for this ...

SPARTA, Ga. — A controversial railroad that would cut through a historically Black neighborhood of Sparta was given another green light from the Georgia Public Service Commission on Thursday.

Sparta’s Black history dates back to the Jim Crow era in the Deep South, when Blaine Smith managed to purchase 600 acres of land and started a company farming cotton, then peas, butter beans ...

Sparta is a small rural town and home to just 1,300 people in Hancock County, Georgia. According to census data, 70% of the county's population is Black and almost one in three people live in poverty.

SPARTA, Wis. (WEAU) - Nearly a decade ago, the city of Sparta bought nearly 200 acres of land on the city’s south side to create the South Pointe Business Park.