Officials in Savannah are working to grow both jobs and the city's lush urban forest by turning vacant lots into tree nurseries.
A Georgia lawmaker is seeking protection for people who break into cars to rescue pets in hot weather.
A developer is offering local officials in Georgia's oldest city a donation of 863 acres of protected forest and wetlands.
A colleague of Patrick Caddell says the pollster who helped propel Jimmy Carter in his longshot bid to win the presidency has died. He was 68.
By The Associated Press
A bill working its way through Congress would expand three national historic sites in Georgia.
Activity at the Georgia legislature is picking up as the 2019 session approaches the half-way mark.
By ELANA SCHOR Associated Press
The Latest on saga involving Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage (all times local):
A wide-ranging bill moving Georgia to voting machines with electronic ballot markers that print a paper record has been introduced in the Georgia House.
The Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage says he didn't talk about his British citizenship before because he didn't want to get deported.
An unlicensed landfill just south of the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta has been burning for nearly five months, sending sulfur-scented smoke throughout the area.
Georgia may soon allow the production and sale of low-potency medical marijuana oil within the state.
School officials say 21 students from a middle school south of Atlanta have been taken to hospitals after eating candy and snacks on Valentine's Day.
A Georgia business owner has pleaded guilty to attempting to bribe an IRS agent to reduce his tax burden
A worker repairing a semitrailer in Georgia suffered severe burns in an explosion.
One of Georgia's most powerful lawmakers is accused of using his office to delay court cases for criminal defendants he represented as an attorney.
An Atlanta-area city council has voted to ban sharable electric scooters.
Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has unveiled a proposal that would authorize his office to pursue Medicaid waivers.
Google said today it will invest more than $13 billion in building data centers and offices across the U.S in 2019.
A federal labor union says some of its members found what it called a "racist book open and on display" in a Republican Georgia congressman's Washington office.
Almost no one knows the players and there's virtually no history to look back on.
A lawyer for 21 Savage says the Grammy-nominated rapper has been released from an immigration detention center in south Georgia.
Police in Georgia say a 12-year-old boy crossing a roadway was struck by three vehicles and later died.
Federal prosecutors say 27 Houston residents have been indicted in the investigation of nearly $2.8 million stolen from ATMs in robberies targeting technicians servicing cash machines.
U.S. House Democrats are bringing a voting rights inquiry to Georgia as they look into allegations of voter suppression during the 2018 elections.
Rabid fox attacks at Georgia Tech in Atlanta have parts of the university's campus taped-off like a crime scene and students taking different routes walking to class.
Kennesaw State University is investigating a series of racist posts shared on social media amid rumors of threats of racial violence.
Two Republicans are headed to a March 12 runoff in a special election to fill a south Georgia House seat.
Georgia State University officials say the cost to demolish an old building in downtown Atlanta have doubled to $10 million.
An Atlanta attorney convicted of stealing $26 million from his law firm has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
A lawyer for Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage says he's been granted bond for release from federal immigration custody.
A new nonstop service to the deep South is coming to Rhode Island's T.F. Green Airport this summer.
A woman who recorded her alleged sexual assault on a dance floor on Facebook Live is suing a popular Atlanta nightclub, claiming negligence.
Authorities have revealed new evidence in their case against a Georgia man charged with killing a high school teacher who disappeared more than 13 years ago.
A hearse was struck and flipped several times during a funeral procession in metro Atlanta. Police say the man who hit it is charged with DUI, drug and traffic offenses.
An Atlanta-area city council is set to consider banning shareable electric scooters.
An Atlanta man has been arrested and charged with the deaths of two cousins in December.
Officials say the rapper known as YoungBoy Never Broke Again has been arrested at an Atlanta hotel on disorderly conduct charges.
A Maine man who is accused of being married to three different women in three different states is behind bars in Ohio.
Local utility cooperatives would be authorized to provide broadband in an effort to boost internet access in rural areas, under legislation that has won unanimous support in the Georgia House.
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's order to unseal the transcripts in grand jury proceedings in the brazen lynching of two black couples in rural Georgia more than 70 years ago.
Georgia's attorney general says he plans to prosecute a former spokeswoman for the Atlanta mayor's office who's accused of violating the state's open records law.
Officials say a baby was brought to a Georgia hospital with broken bones and that two people have been arrested.
The U.S. Marshals Service is now offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the capture of a disbarred Georgia attorney believed to have killed his mother.