COLUMBUS, Ga. - Newt Gingrich took the stage at the Georgia Republican Party state convention Saturday wearing a Mitt Romney sticker, focusing his attacks on President Obama and attempting to ...

Gov. Nathan Deal on Monday signed a $19.3 billion budget that reflects Georgia's modest revenue gains in a recovering economy and his administration's priorities.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed legislation Wednesday that will overhaul the state's criminal justice system to provide alternative sentences for nonviolent offenders.

ATLANTA - Gov. Na­than Deal signed legislation Tues­day that bans most abortions five months after conception.

Gov. Nathan Deal on Tuesday signed into law a sweeping overhaul of Georgia's open-records rules, which reduces the cost of obtaining public documents and stiffens penalties for illegally ...

ATLANTA - Gov. Nathan Deal is quietly celebrating a second successful year at the Legislature, with victories on tax and criminal justice reform.

ATLANTA - The Georgia Senate on Friday approved a plan that would reduce the number of weeks people could collect unemployment - a politically unpopular choice that supporters said was a tough but ...

ATLANTA — The head of Georgia’s Republican Party on Thursday said she will have to work hard to maintain grass-roots momentum among voters after most of the GOP presidential field pulled out of a ...

Lawmakers heard testimony from Bryant and former Falcons linebacker Buddy Curry in support of House Bill 673. The legislation is part of a national push by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NCAA ...

ATLANTA - House Democrats are split on a proposed constitutional amendment that would give the state the power to create charter schools - jeopardizing the bill's prospects for passage in the chamber.

Senators aim to help fellow veterans with the transition of returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Taylor's Law would authorize Georgia's natural resources commissioner to issue special hunting permits for big game or alligators to anyone under 21 with a life expectancy of a year or less due to ...

More than 1,500 students, teachers, parents and advocates of school choice stormed the Georgia Capitol on Wednesday, telling lawmakers that the state's children deserve educational options.

Among Democrats' proposals is a bill that would restore an income eligibility cap and another that would make the top 3 percent of all high school graduates eligible for the new Zell Miller ...

ATLANTA - Is there a difference between raising taxes and supporting a ballot measure that would raise taxes? Georgia tea party activists say no.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal will recommend merging or closing some state agencies in his 2013 budget proposal.

ATLANTA - The state is finally collecting more tax money after a bruising recession, but Georgia lawmakers returning to Atlanta for the 2012 legislative session are likely to contend with a budget ...

Prosecutors in Georgia have concluded there is no proof that two ousted board members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference stole more than $560,000 from the landmark civil rights ...