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Tue., September 4, 2012 6:32pm
Governor Deal has announced nine winners of education grants. They are part of the Obama Administration’s Race to the Top schools program. $19.4 million will go to partnerships between local school districts, universities, businesses and nonprofit organizations.
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Thu., August 30, 2012 6:53pm
Hospital officials and advocates for patients say Gov. Nathan Deal's decision to reject the expansion of Medicaid prescribed by the Affordable Care Act would leave thousands of the poorest Georgians uninsured.
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Tue., August 28, 2012 6:43pm
Gov. Nathan Deal says he has no intention of expanding Medicaid under President Barack Obama's 2010 health care overhaul.
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Mon., August 27, 2012 5:00am
Governor Nathan Deal has appointed state Sen. William Hamrick to a judgeship on the Coweta Superior Court effective September 10.
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Fri., August 10, 2012 12:30pm
The state Board of Regents has approved $2 million in renovations for the College of Coastal Georgia in Brunswick. The board included $2 million for the work in its 2014 capital budget request for the renovation the school's Academic Commons South building.
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Fri., July 13, 2012 12:53pm
Following Gov. Nathan Deal's lead, Georgia's community health commissioner says the agency is holding off on a wholesale overhaul of the state's Medicaid program because of uncertainty at the federal level.
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Wed., July 4, 2012 2:16pm
Gov. Nathan Deal has named his business partner and two top contributors to the Georgia Ports Authority. Ken Cronan and James Walters, both of Gainesville, and Hugh M. Tarbutton of Sandersville have been appointed to the authority's governing board.
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Tue., July 3, 2012 11:09am
A review commission appointed by the governor has recommended that a Dougherty School Board member be removed from office until charges against her are resolved.
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Thu., June 28, 2012 5:39pm
A narrowly divided Supreme Court upheld President Obama’s Affordable Care Act in an historic 5-4 decision.
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Tue., June 26, 2012 7:00pm
A federal agency says it has the legal authority to give Georgia more water from a disputed reservoir, though it has not made a final decision on how much to release. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in documents released Tuesday that it has the legal ability to give metro Atlanta communities access to 705 million gallons of water per day from Lake Lanier on the Chattahoochee River to meet needs through 2030.
