ATLANTA — Federal prosecutors have charged another Georgia lawmaker with making false statements to fraudulently obtain thousands of dollars of pandemic unemployment assistance payments.

DC BLOX Atlanta East Hyperscale Data Center Campus in Conyers, Georgia, on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. Georgia lawmakers have ...

Stephens’ sister-in-law died last summer, due, he said, to the effects of smoking. For years, she had been confined at home, tethered to an oxygen bottle. He said his father smoked as a teen and got ...

The proposal unveiled at the Capitol Wednesday by House leaders, would gradually chip away at the amount of property taxes homeowners pay on their primary residence, until the amount vanishes to zero ...

ATLANTA — A Republican House proposal to eliminate homeowner property taxes will face stiff opposition if it makes it to the state Senate, where Democratic leadership labeled it “draconian” and ...

Students in Georgia schools could soon have more opportunities to study outdoors instead of inside a classroom. The state Senate gave final approval Wednesday to a bill that calls for a pilot program ...

A federal appeals court has upheld parts of Georgia’s 2021 voting law that allow state takeovers of county election management and prohibit ballot photography.

The ban expansion has high-powered support. House Speaker Jon Burns, R-Newington, said in early January that he expected a “lively discussion” about banning cellphones in high school, acknowledging ...

FAIRBURN — FBI agents raided Fulton County’s elections warehouse Wednesday to collect ballots from the 2020 presidential election, an escalation by the Trump administration into unsubstantiated ...

Gov. Brian Kemp ordered the suspension of State. Rep. Sharon Henderson, D-Covington, after a committee of elected officials determined that her indictment “does relate to and adversely affect” her ...