A Republican congressman says he won't seek reelection to his Georgia seat in 2024. Rep. Drew Ferguson said Thursday that he plans to leave office after finishing his term next year, saying he looks forward to spending more time with his family.
It's getting a more complicated to tell how Georgia public schools are faring. The state Department of Education on Thursday released a full spectrum of school accountability numbers for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. But there isn't a single number to sum up the performance of any one school or district.
The release of fatal liquid nitrogen at a poultry processing plant in Gainesville nearly three years ago was “completely preventable,” according to a newly released federal report.
Georgia will join about half of all states that already have an all-payer claims database, or an APCD, by January. The database and visualizations to come were developed with support from the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
The district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia says it's a "silly notion" that the former president's case should be paused just because he's running for office. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sat down with The Associated Press for an interview this week about the case against Trump.
A homeless person starting a fire to keep warm is thought to be the likely cause of a fire that destroyed a vacant warehouse in the industrial district near downtown last week.
On the Wednesday, Dec. 13 edition of Georgia Today: An analysis finds activists seeking to block an Atlanta police training facility may have met the requirements for a referendum; Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport gets a multi-million dollar security upgrade; and Jon Nelson recaps Day 2 of the Georgia high school football championships.
Georgia and Alabama are proposing a deal to settle their water war over the Chattahoochee River. If approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the deal would provide for minimum water flows at two points along the river.
The people who sued to overturn Georgia's congressional and legislative districts are attacking plans that Republican state lawmakers claim cure illegal dilution of Black votes while preserving GOP power.
The organization's "Garden Lights, Holiday Nights" took first place Dec. 12, beating competitors in New York City, Houston, Texas, and Albuquerque, N.M. to take home a $50,000 prize.
An effort to block the construction of a new public safety training center in Atlanta through a ballot referendum might have enough valid petition signers to move forward, according to a new analysis from GPB and three partner newsrooms.
Residents in rural East Georgia's Jenkins County are getting some relief from railroad crossings that hinder business and other movements around the county seat of Millen.
Students from across the Atlanta metro area will meet with professional gaming experts during a festival focused on women in e-sports.
In Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature, Dan Sinykin breaks down large corporations' impact on how American literature is written and read.
