Lawmakers Return During Pandemic, Recession And Historic Calls For Justice

Three months ago, the Georgia General Assembly took a historic hiatus because of concerns about COVID-19. Today, the Georgia Recorder st ...

Bookman: Georgia In Play As Health Care Worries Meet Tax Cut Squeeze

The Democratic National Committee has added Georgia to its list of states targeted for millions of dollars in spending in the 2020 campa ...

Ga. Lawmaker Wants To Refresh U.S. History With Juneteenth Recognition

Marietta officials seemed unsure of the local NAACP’s plans for the first Juneteenth celebration now held nearly two decades ago.

Georgia Hate Crimes Legislation Winds Its Way To State Senate Floor

The proposed hate crimes law sets new penalties for criminals motivated by a bias against a person’s race, sex and other characteristics.

MarketNsight Reports New Pending Home Sales Up in June

Firm predicts 2020 new home permits flat to up 3%.

Georgia Senate Cuts $2.6B From Next Year’s Spending Plan, $1B From K-12

The state Senate passed its version of next year’s shrunken spending plan Friday, with the vote falling along party lines.

State Lawmakers Put Gambling Back On The Table, Or At Least Online

Online sports betting and casino gambling might still be on the table as state lawmakers wind down Georgia’s 2020 legislative session.

Georgia Convention Hotels Slash Jobs, Bad Unemployment News Persists

Fayette County’s Kamesha Frazier knew the call announcing she would be furloughed was coming ahead of time.

Dalton To D.C., Young Immigrants Cheer Supreme Court DACA Ruling

Dalton’s Christian Olvera and Jaime Rangel are among the 21,000 young undocumented immigrants living in Georgia celebrating a U.S. Supre ...

Proposed State Laws That Aim To De-Escalate Police Conflicts Stacking Up

As protests continue across Georgia and the country over the deaths of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement officers, state ...

Critics Of Duncan Hate Crimes Plan Say Late Pivot Dooms Efforts This Year

Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan proposed a new version of a hate crimes bill to the Georgia Senate Wednesday, which drew complaints from b ...

Ga. Senate Says $1 Billion Hole In K-12 Spending Looms In Budget Pain

The across-the-board cuts, which Gov. Brian Kemp ordered when restrictions meant to curb the spread of COVID-19 triggered a drop in reve ...

House Hate Crimes Bill Aired Out In Senate For First Time Thursday Night

A hate crimes bill backed by a bipartisan group of Georgia politicians and the business and religious community received a long-awaited ...

Senate GOP Unveils Police Reform Bill That Draws Democratic Rebukes

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans unveiled a police reform bill Wednesday that takes a markedly different approach to parallel efforts bac ...

Hate Crime Law Top Of Mind As Legislature Returns To Business

Georgia lawmakers issued passionate pleas to get a hate crimes law on the books this year as legislators returned to the Capitol for the ...

Lawmakers Agree To Let Utility With Vogtle Stake Borrow Without Voter OK

Updated 8 a.m. Thursday

Arbery Family Meets With Trump, Skips ‘Police Reform’ Rose Garden Event

WASHINGTON — Relatives of Ahmaud Arbery met privately with President Donald Trump Tuesday, but did not attend a later Rose Garden event ...

Thousands Of Protesters March To Capitol, Demand Law And Order Reform

Eric Hill and his grandson Terrence Davis sat outside the Georgia capitol Monday morning with thousands of others as the state NAACP mar ...

At Last, Legislation To Curb Surprise Billing Headed To Governor’s Desk

After several years of false starts, state lawmakers Wednesday sent legislation to the governor designed to rein in the unexpected medic ...

Bill Aims To Let Dalton Utility With Vogtle Stake Borrow Without Voter OK

A controversial measure that frees a north Georgia municipal utility with a stake in the expansion of Plant Vogtle from holding a public ...

GA Plaintiff Reacts To LGBTQ Discrimination Ruling By Supreme Court

A Georgia man was part of a landmark victory when the U.S. Supreme Court held that people can’t be fired because they are LGBTQ.

Georgia’s Allen, McBath Split At House Hearing Over School Funding

WASHINGTON — Georgia Rep. Rick Allen suggested Monday that more federal funding to help the nation’s schools as they prepare to reopen t ...

Forts Benning, Gordon Part Of Push To Rename Bases Honoring Confederates

Forts Benning and Gordon in Georgia are among bases named for Confederate officers who could be renamed.

Some Georgia Parents Dread Return To Classroom As Pandemic Persists

Gwinnett County mom Sherri Atkinson has cared for a child with a serious illness, and is worried as Georgia schools prep to reopen.

Bookman: State Needs To Step Up And Fix Voting System It Bragged About

We should be proud of Georgia, or at least of its people. Their commitment to democracy, to being heard, to being counted, was impressiv ...

Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks Hurt Poor Communities, Critics Say

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is suspending key environmental reviews during the pandemic that critics warn could further harm p ...

Bookman Column: Let’s Be Honest About Who Really Fans The Flame Of Racism

Opinion: As protests turned into riots in Atlanta and elsewhere, political and media figures fanned the flames of racism, columnist says.

Ossoff Narrowly Avoids Runoff In Georgia Dem’s Senate Race

The battle for the Democratic nomination in one of Georgia’s U.S. Senate contests was called in favor of investigative journalist Jon Os ...

McBath To George Floyd’s Brother: ‘i Know Exactly How You Feel’

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath consoled the brother of George Floyd during a Wednesday Capitol Hill hearing as she drew on her famil ...

Watchdogs Call For Georgia Power To Delay Delinquent Customer Shut-Offs

State utility regulators are set to sign off on terms of a repayment plan for 160,000 Georgia Power customers delinquent on their bills ...

More Than Half Of Nursing Home Residents Recover From Coronavirus

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced that 3,269​ long-term care facility residents diagnosed with the coronavirus have recovered.

New Unemployment Claims Ease In Early June, But Recovery Remains Slow

Unlike many other unemployed Georgians, Christina Walker of Macon still has a job to go back to, but the former shift leader at the donu ...

Ga. Lawmakers Renew Push For Hate Crimes Bill, Law Enforcement Oversight

Georgia Democrats have unveiled their plan to address racial disparities in the criminal justice system after the death of an African Am ...

Groups Push Lawmakers To Raise Revenue Before Slashing Budget

Three dozen groups with varying missions signed onto a letter urging the governor and state lawmakers to take steps to increase revenues ...

Ga. Primary Election Failures, Voter Frustrations Prompt Investigations

Tuesday’s voting started early with lines long enough to test the will of voters and quickly gave way to partisan finger pointing, unfla ...

Georgia Sees Almost 1,000 New COVID-19 Cases in 24 Hours

According to numbers released Thursday, 46 more Georgians died of the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

Long Lines Blamed On Technical Problems, Poor Poll Worker Training

Updated at 7:20 p.m.

Georgia Voters Ready For “different Election Day” With Long Lines Likely

Georgians who waited to vote today and are lucky enough to be sitting on an absentee ballot have an Election Day ticket to bypass the lo ...

Calls Grow To Remove Confederate Statue From State Capitol’s Front Lawn

A high-ranking Georgia Democrat has joined the push for the “immediate removal” of an embattled Confederate statue that sits on a promin ...

GA Primary Election Fallout: What Went Wrong?

Tuesday's primary election in Georgia was a recipe for disaster: a pandemic, new voting machines and crowds of voters spurred by protests.