ATLANTA – Shareholders of The Chemours Company are urging the chemical producer to assess the impacts on ecologically sensitive areas before plunging into a mining project, a move aimed largely at ...

ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) has a new commissioner. The agency’s board has approved Gov. Brian Kemp’s nomination of Angelique McClendon to take the top post at the ...

ROSWELL – Extending the tax cuts Congress passed early in Republican President Donald Trump’s first term will be the first order of business when federal lawmakers return to Washington next week from ...

ATLANTA – A federal judge is giving the U.S. government a Tuesday evening deadline to reinstate the immigration status of 133 current and former college students who would have had to cease attending ...

Assistant U.S. Attorney R. David Powell argued that a preliminary injunction could allow the international visitors to stay past the original expiration dates of their visitor status. He asked that ...

Sen. Brian Strickland, R-McDonough, a lawyer who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, registered with the Georgia Ethics Commissions’ campaign finance system in late March. Sen. Bill Cowsert, ...

ATLANTA – State Sen. Jason Esteves announced Monday that he will run for governor next year. The Atlanta Democrat was elected to the Senate in 2022 and is serving his second term under the Gold Dome.

ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp signed two tort reform bills Monday that supporters say should reverse a pattern of excessive jury awards they hold responsible for rising liability insurance premiums that ...

ATLANTA – Metro Atlanta suffers the third-worst levels of ozone pollution, otherwise known as smog, in the Southeast, according to a study released Wednesday by the American Lung Association. The ...

There is another complicating factor for Georgia school systems: most are legally limited to a maximum tax rate of 20 mills. Typically, 90% of the costs go to paying teachers and other staff. The ...