US Reps. Paul Broun and Phil Gingrey are the only Republicans to announce officially since incumbent Saxby Chambliss said he will retire. But the field could include as many as a half-dozen ...
ATLANTA - The final days of the General Assembly's annual session were a flurry of activity, but the overall tenor of the 40-day effort was smoother than many years past.
ATLANTA - As more Republicans give in to President Obama's health-care overhaul, an opposition bloc remains across the South, including from governors who lead some of the nation's poorest and ...
ATLANTA - The clock is running out on the Georgia legislative session, with representatives and senators yet to agree on a state budget, changes to gun regulations and an overhaul of lobbying rules.
ATLANTA - As the Georgia General Assembly's legislative session winds toward a close, members of a key Senate committee next week will consider a plan from House Speaker David Ralston to limit ...
ATLANTA — Atlanta’s mayor and Falcons owner Arthur Blank have agreed to financing terms for a new $1 billion, retractable-roof stadium to replace the 20-year-old Georgia Dome.
The move, which could still be subject to the outcomes of lawsuits in state and federal court, is the latest in a high-profile controversy over the management of the metro Atlanta system, which ...
The latest proposal is intended to place nonviolent youth offenders into community based programs that treat root causes of criminal behavior rather than putting perpetrators behind bars.
The new law empowers a panel of governor's appointees to do what lawmakers wanted to avoid doing themselves: levy a tax on Georgia hospitals' net patient revenue.
Republican Paul Broun is the first, but not the last, to enter the 2014 field officially, as several congressmen mull a race that blew wide open when Sen. Chambliss announced that he would not ...
Gov. Nathan Deal scored a key budget victory as the House of Representatives approved his plan to avoid losing more than $450 million in federal money for the Medicaid insurance program.
There's been a lot of talk at the Georgia Capitol about gun laws since a shooter killed 20 children at a Connecticut elementary school. However, there's been little action.
The Republican governor's priority list, presented to a joint session of the House and Senate, includes public safety, education, health care and economic development, all pursued within tight ...
Gov. Nathan Deal has settled on a proposal that could allow lawmakers to avoid voting directly to extend a high-profile hospital tax that helps provide a significant part of state health-care ...
Georgia Rep. Edward Lindsey plans to push a bill that would allow parents in a public school to vote whether their campus should be converted into an independent charter school.
ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers will convene Jan. 14 with a familiar theme: a budget shortfall explained mostly by an economy not keeping pace with rising health care costs.
Georgia Hospital Association officials say the industry has agreed on a plan that calls for extending and tweaking an expiring hospital tax that provides a key chunk of state health care ...
Georgia's poverty rate is at its highest point in 30 years. The typical Georgia household's annual income, in terms of purchasing power, is about what it was in 1990.
Plans to trim more than 3,000 civilian paychecks this summer at Fort Gordon are expected to move forward without delay, despite appeals from dozens of employees at the installation.
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