The Georgia House of Representatives on Thursday adopted its own version of legislation that would limit transgender student competition in school sports, making the final passage of a law on the ...

ATLANTA – The justices on the Georgia Supreme Court have unanimously elected Presiding Justice Nels S.D. Peterson to be the state’s next chief justice. Peterson will assume his new role after March 31 ...

Senate Bill 69, which cleared the Senate 52-0, is aimed at third-party financing of lawsuits, where financiers who are not a party to a case pay the costs of pursuing litigation in exchange for a ...

House Bill 428 was prompted by a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court last year that declared frozen embryos created through IVF should be treated as children. The decision essentially banned the ...

People caught with a quarter gram of fentanyl would face one to five years in prison if a measure that passed the Georgia Senate Wednesday goes on to become law. It’s a tiny amount, but it’s enough to ...

ATLANTA – The Georgia Senate overwhelmingly passed a record $40.5 billion mid-year state budget Wednesday that prioritizes disaster relief, infrastructure needs, and prisons.

Senate Bill 74, which the Senate Education and Youth Committee approved Tuesday, would take away that exemption. The bill is the latest of several efforts Senate Republicans have made during the last ...

The General Assembly passed a bill during last year’s legislative session scheduling the elections for PSC districts 2 and 3 this year. The election for District 5 will be held in 2026, and elections ...

ATLANTA – The Port of Savannah handled nearly 5.6 million twenty-foot equivalent units of containerized cargo (TEUs) last year, a 12.5% increase that made Savannah the fastest growing container port ...

Georgia public schools were short 5,300 teachers as of December, an ongoing problem state lawmakers have been unable to fix. They have a new proposed solution, but it would take awhile to put in place ...

ATLANTA – Georgia Chief Justice Michael Boggs announced Tuesday that he will resign from the state Supreme Court at the end of next month, the last day of the Court’s current term.

ATLANTA – Legislation prohibiting Georgia Power from passing on the costs of providing electricity to data centers to residential and small business customers cleared a state Senate committee Tuesday.