ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency in Georgia Tuesday with Tropical Storm Helene expected to make landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3 hurricane Thursday night.

“What Sandersville is proposing is not a public use under the U.S. and Georgia constitutions,” IJ Senior Attorney Bill Maurer said Tuesday. “If a private company can take people’s land for the benefit ...

Former President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to make the United States a “manufacturing powerhouse” if voters return him to the White House. At a rally in Savannah devoted primarily to the economy, the ...

ATLANTA – The State Election Board is launching an investigation into allegations that local election boards in eight counties are routinely thwarting citizen activists’ challenges of thousands of ...

Chatham County’s grant of $2.3 million will go toward infrastructure projects for an 18-acre development containing 83 new single-family detached homes and multi-family housing units. The city of Port ...

Thurman and Miller died after taking abortion medication left them with some fetal tissue remaining in their uteruses, ProPublica reported this week. Both needed a dilation and curettage (D&C), a ...

Legislation the General Assembly passed this year that takes effect Oct. 1 will prohibit retailers from selling hemp products to anyone under the age of 21 and impose labeling, packaging, and testing ...

ATLANTA – Allowing canoes and kayaks only on Georgia rivers and streams deemed navigable would ruin an outdoor recreation industry that brings in billions of dollars, outfitters and paddling ...

ATLANTA – The Republican-controlled State Election Board Friday approved a controversial change in election rules requiring counties to hand-count the number of ballots cast at polling places on ...

Firearms are the leading cause of death for young people in Georgia, said Dr. Sofia Chaudhary, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA). “This is a public ...

ATLANTA – Georgia’s unemployment rate rose in August for the fourth month in a row, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. The state’s jobless rate of 3.6% last month was up two-tenths from ...