ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Agriculture has detected a positive case of bird flu in a second commercial poultry flock in Elbert County.

But when lawmakers reconvene under the Gold Dome next week, they will begin examining an ambitious list of building projects fueled by the huge budget surplus the state has been built up during the ...

ATLANTA – The winter storm that hit large parts of Georgia Tuesday is over, but state Department of Transportation crews were continuing to treat and plow roads Wednesday in areas that haven’t seen ...

ATLANTA – In a reversal of the usual pattern, the latest winter storm is expected to dump more snow on Middle and South Georgia than the northern half of the state.

With Kemp’s emergency declaration, the State Operations Center in southeast Atlanta has been activated, and the Georgia Department of Defense has been authorized to deploy up to 250 Georgia National ...

ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp leaves for Europe this week on a trade mission to Germany and Poland. The trip is intended to strengthen the Peach State’s existing economic and cultural ties with the two ...

ATLANTA – The Justice Department has filed a voting rights lawsuit against Houston County challenging its at-large method of electing county commissioners.

Kemp’s $40.5 billion fiscal 2025 mid-year budget, $4.4 billion above the spending plan the General Assembly adopted last spring, dips into the state’s healthy surplus to bankroll a $1 billion one-time ...

Tort reform has been a goal of Georgia Republicans and their allies in the business community for decades. But the most significant reform legislation to make it through the General Assembly came 20 ...

House Speaker Jon Burns, R-Newington, banned Moore from the House floor last March after the far-right senator from Northwest Georgia made disparaging remarks about the late Speaker David Ralston, ...

ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp delivered a not-so-veiled threat to members of the General Assembly Thursday: Pass significant tort reform during the 2025 legislative session – or else. “There is always ...

ATLANTA – The General Assembly will convene under the Gold Dome on Monday with the usual mix of old and new business on its plate.