Bills that could lead to casinos, pari-mutuel betting on horse racing and/or sports betting in the Peach State will be on the table when the 2022 legislative session convenes in January for the second year of a two-year term.
With less than a month before Atlanta’s municipal elections, candidates face the task of swinging undecided voters who, polls show, have a dim view of the city's future.
A Georgia News Lab investigation finds three of the five top candidates in the Atlanta mayor’s race have failed to provide complete and timely accounts of their personal financial interests, as required by law.
It will be more than 600 days since the killing of Ahmaud Arbery when those accused of his murder finally go to trial, which is now set to start on Oct. 18, following a lengthy delay brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The court and Glynn County is prepping for the national attention, even as the pandemic endures.
Georgia House Democrats are calling on Republican Labor Commissioner Mark Butler to press pause on a new online portal that requires legislators to sign a confidentiality agreement to obtain unemployment information about constituents who ask for help securing benefits.
The voter registration deadline for the Nov. 2, 2021 municipal elections is Monday, Oct. 4. Georgia voters can create, update and check their voter registrations online at mvp.sos.ga.gov.
A federal court has postponed a decision on Georgia’s stalled anti-abortion law until after the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on a Mississippi ban on procedures after 15 weeks into a pregnancy.
A draft proposal of Georgia's new congressional boundaries released by Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and Senate redistricting committee chair Sen. John Kennedy makes minimal changes, except for flipping the 6th Congressional District to a likely Republican seat.
Monday on Political Rewind: Former president Donald Trump’s rally in Perry over the weekend drew big names on the 2022 ballot for Republican. The event also stirred up controversy within the Republican party. Trump continued his attacks on Gov. Brian Kemp, exasperating the schism between loyalists to the former President and the main figures behind the state's Republican party.
The Georgia Association of Voter Registrations and Elections Officials says pushing back qualifying and the spring primary date is necessary to finish complicated redistricting changes required by law.
At the Save America Rally in Perry Saturday, former President Donald Trump touted a slate of GOP primary challengers, attacked incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp and other Republicans deemed not loyal to his cause and continued to make false claims about winning the 2020 election.
With 44% of its population fully vaccinated, Georgia is running far behind the rest of the nation. For the state's Latino community, a population that has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, vaccination rates are even lower. The Rev. Irma Guerra, a Mexican immigrant and minister at Christ Church Episcopal in Norcross, has used her platform to be a vaccine evangelizer and to dispel some of the misinformation about the vaccine through social media, her pulpit and going door to door.
The U.S. 11th District Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on Friday in the case of Georgia’s controversial law HB 481, also known as the “heartbeat bill” because it would ban abortions after a doctor can detect a fetus’ heartbeat. But judges were wary to push the case forward as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to take up Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case from Mississippi that bans most abortions after 15 weeks.
Former President Donald Trump's rally in Perry on Saturday promises to end with a fireworks show, but the real fireworks have come from his singular focus on upending Republican politics in Georgia after losing in 2020.
Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black is one of the most popular politicians in Georgia, but even that might not be enough to win the Republican U.S. Senate primary in 2022.
