The landslide win raises hopes for a constructive city council. With all precincts reporting and all votes counted, Johnson won 77.3% of the 21,696 votes cast.

Savannah Mayor Van Johnson won reelection to a second term last night, defeating Alderwoman Kesha Gibson-Carter by a wide 57-point margin. 

Public health leaders are working to reduce disparities and improve health outcomes in Black and Brown communities across the state.

Georgia’s state taxes on gas and diesel have again been suspended.

Polls are open across Georgia today for municipal elections. Voters in many cities, including Savannah, will be choosing mayors.

Friends of a Georgia-raised Israeli police officer killed in Jerusalem Monday are honoring her as a hard-working student-athlete.

Public health leaders are working to reduce disparities and improve health in Black and Brown communities across the state.

People in Cornelia, Ga., love a mysterious message that professes love. But they have no idea where it came from.

The most popular brands of e-cigarettes among underage smokers are illegal disposables, specifically Elf Bar/EB Designs (56.7%) and Esco Bars (21.6%), according to this year's National Youth Tobacco Survey.

Today is municipal election day in Georgia.

Hundreds of children likely have been sex trafficked while in Georgia’s foster care system, according to the latest testimony in an ongoing U-S Senate investigation.

Last week a judge struck down a plan by the Fulton County Sheriff’s office to send inmates to other states to relieve overcrowding in the Fulton County Jail. But advocates for the recently incarcerated say they have better solutions.

Hundreds of children likely have been sex trafficked while in Georgia’s foster care system, according to U.S. Senate testimony.

Federal agriculture officials have issued a disaster declaration for four Northwest Georgia counties after eight weeks of drought.

Non-profits are offering solutions to overcrowding after a state judge last week threw out a plan to send detainees to other states.

Shields spoke last week at an Atlanta Women’s Foundation luncheon and fundraiser about the importance of empowering women, supporting their education and mental health.

Four million dollars from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will help agencies in Georgia tackle racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes in Atlanta, coastal and central Georgia cities.

The number of teenagers using tobacco products is going down and the Food and Drug Administration is calling it a win. Most of the declines are among e-cigarette users. 

Environmentalists are preparing to push back against a request to state regulators from Georgia Power for a massive, mostly fossil fuel powered increase in electricity generation.

A Georgia court has ruled that cannabis-derived Delta-8 and Delta-10 are not controlled substances.  But the state could appeal.

Environmentalists plan to challenge a Georgia Power request to boost electricity generation mostly through fossil fuel consumption.

An expanding drought across North Georgia is heightening wildfire risk. Some areas have gone now for two weeks without rain.

A panel of state Senators held their first hearing Thursday to investigate issues plaguing the Fulton County Jail.

The Secretary of State's office is pushing back against questions from some Republican lawmakers about the timing of a software upgrade to Georgia's voting system.

The Atlanta Mayors office has released designs for semi-permanent housing in downtown.

Georgia says it will appeal a judge’s order to redraw some congressional and state legislative districts.

A panel of State Senators held their first hearing today to investigate issues plaguing the Fulton County Jail.

The Secretary of State's office is pushing back against questions about the timing of a software upgrade to Georgia's voting system.

Republicans on the Senate Ethics Committee aggressively questioned the secretary of state's office's decision-making around a software update to Georgia's voting system.

The appeal of an order requiring new congressional and state legislative political maps also postpones another trial over other redistricting claims.

Georgia will appeal a federal judge's ruling that tosses out the state's political maps for diluting the power of Black voters, but the state won't ask to pause the order in the meantime.

Some Macon Water Authority staff can now write tickets to people who blow leaves into the street.

Georgia’s peanut harvest is coming in later than usual. Farmers say it’s because of the weather over the last few months.