Georgia's attorney general says city officials in Savannah overstepped their authority when they outlawed keeping guns in unlocked cars. Savannah's mayor and city council adopted a new ordinance in April that requires people to lock vehicles with guns stashed inside.

For the week ending May 3, 2024, Sens. Warnock and Ossoff worked on improving youth mentorship, reconnecting undeserved communities in Atlanta, creating Georgia's first National Park and Preserve and expanding nursing programs in West Georgia.

The price tag could reach $300 million, says a top state election official. The legislature has allocated $0 — and set a two-year deadline.

Jailers in Georgia must now check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal immigration law. That's after Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law that gained traction after police accused a Venezuelan man of beating a nursing student to death on the University of Georgia campus.

U.S. Rep. David Scott faces multiple Democratic primary opponents in his quest for a 12th congressional term. He's running in a sharply reconfigured suburban Atlanta district.

Vice President Kamala Harris came to Georgia Monday to kick off a nationwide tour promoting the White House’s record on economic issues and pledge to continue to support small businesses, particularly minority-owned ones.

Much of Sunday’s debate between the two Democrats challenging incumbent U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Marietta, in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District focused on McBath’s absence from the stage.

Former Fulton County prosecutor Christian Wise Smith Sunday vowed to bring “fresh energy and new ideas” to the Fulton district attorney’s office as he challenges Fani Willis for the DA post.

Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden, but Trump keeps bringing up another Democrat, Jimmy Carter. Trump likes to cite the 99-year-old Carter as a measuring stick to belittle Biden.

Brian Jack sought to make a debate among Republicans for an open Georgia congressional seat all about his close ties with Donald Trump, while the other contenders are ignoring Trump's endorsement of Jack. Five Republicans running for their party's nomination in Georgia's 3rd Congressional met Sunday in an Atlanta Press Club debate.

For the past week, Georgia's U.S Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock discussed global issues with Pope Francis, expanded tax deductions for Georgia teachers, worked to improve the water structure in Bulloch County and provided resources to Georgia’s busiest water ports.

AI has been embraced in the business, computing and marketing worlds, but this year’s election is the first to see campaigns latching on to the new technology.

Parents working in state government and public schools will be able to take up to six weeks of paid parental leave under a new Georgia law.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed a controversial school choice bill into law on Tuesday. 

 

President Joe Biden will be the commencement speaker for Georgia's Morehouse College and at West Point next month. The Morehouse appearance in Atlanta gives Biden a key election-year platform on one of the nation's preeminent historically Black campuses.