Voters in Cherokee and Fulton counties went to the polls Tuesday to select a successor for another vacant post, naming Republican Jason Dickerson to the Senate District 21 seat that Brandon Beach ...

ATLANTA — Georgia health officials are monitoring seven people for measles after they came in contact with infected people. The state Department of Public Health said Tuesday it had confirmed three ...

Dickerson’s win secures Republicans’ 33-23 advantage in the state Senate. It also maintains GOP control of the General Assembly given the party’s majority in the House.

ATLANTA — Georgia’s two public flagships for higher education placed in the top 100 again along with Emory University in the annual U.S. News rankings for 2026. The Georgia Institute of Technology ...

Kids get long-term suspensions or expulsions for minor infractions and wind up in alternative schools that do not offer busing, said Lynch, who is with Georgia Appleseed, a legal advocacy group. If ...

Scott Johnson, a former lawmaker and state school board member who now leads the literacy council, said he expects to see improved scores with the next round of Milestones tests. He said his group ...

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp’s upcoming trip to the Republic of Korea was planned “well before” the federal immigration raid on Georgia’s Hyundai electric vehicle battery plant west of Savannah, his ...

ATLANTA — Georgia Republicans who want to eliminate the state income tax vowed on Wednesday that they would not pay for it by taxing groceries and housing. Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, secured ...

ATLANTA — A federal review of Georgia’s unique implementation of Medicaid found that two-thirds of the money went to administrative overhead rather than to medical assistance.

ATLANTA — The August workforce report for Georgia shows a gain of 1,900 jobs, with the unemployment rate unchanged from July. Nearly five million are employed in the state, according to numbers ...

In a rare bipartisan act to protect children, Georgia legislators adopted a law last year that regulated social media companies. But the industry sued and, for now, has sidelined the prohibition on ...