Just after 3 p.m. on the third Tuesday of May, Lamont Hart began his shift outside a suburban Atlanta precinct as a scorching Georgia sun reflected heat off the white-bricked Worship with Wonders Church. Tall, thin, wearing a backward flat cap and holding a notebook, Hart introduced himself to exiting voters and asked whether they’d had any issues casting their ballots.
Water pressure is returning to downtown Atlanta and nearby neighborhoods. Problems are easing Sunday after a water outage that began Friday, shutting down businesses and leaving faucets dry at many homes. A large swath of the city remains under an order to boil water before drinking it.
The Fulton County 2020 presidential election interference case is pressing ahead with court hearings taking place for several of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sweeping racketeering case.
Atlanta Watershed shut off water at 1 a.m. to certain streets to complete “essential repairs” on a broken water main that has been gushing since Friday night.
Much of Atlanta remains under a boil water advisory Monday morning as the city continues repairs on a water main break in Midtown.
Attorneys for three former sheriff’s deputies set to go on trial again on murder charges in the 2017 death of an elderly Black man in Washington County will argue the men are immune from prosecution.
Mayor Andre Dickens joined business owners and city leaders this week for a “signing day” launching the 3rd year of the summer job program for young adults in the city.
On the Friday, May 31 edition of Georgia Today: Water main bursts in Atlanta disrupt homes and businesses throughout the city; 1 in 6 Georgia households could soon lose affordable internet access; and as hurricane season begins, we'll preview a new tool for tracking the storms.
On July 4th, 1970, 140 runners set off from the corner of Peachtree and Roswell Roads in the first Peachtree Road Race. Only 110 of the runners finished.
For the week ending May 31, 2024, Warnock and Ossoff worked on protecting national security at the southern border, urging Delta Air Lines leadership not to hinder workers' unionization efforts, calling out pharmaceutical companies for high medication prices, and addressing law enforcement shortages.
Georgia Democrats are sounding the alarm over potential mass voter challenges ahead of the November election. Georgia law allows local voters to challenge the eligibility of as many people as they want if they suspect the person is ineligible to cast a ballot.
