A Georgia business owner who bragged that he “fed” a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection.
On the Thursday May 2 edition of Georgia Today: Senator Jon Ossoff is championing a bi-partisan bill to create the state's first national park; The city of Savannah says its population of unsheltered people is dropping. And cicadas are taking over parts of Georgia.
This week the Ocmulgee Mounds Park and Preserve Establishment Act was introduced in both the US House and Senate. The legislation with wide bipartisan support is an important, long waited for step in creating the first ever National Park for the state of Georgia.
For the first time in over 200 years, certain parts of the country are experiencing a rare emergence of two periodical cicadas — those big, droning insects that mostly live underground until they finally, very audibly, do not.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is proposing an $853.8 million general fund budgetfor fiscal year 2025, the largest in the city’s history. The proposed spending plan is an 8.1% increase over the $790 million general fund budget approved for fiscal year 2024, formerly Atlanta’s largest budget ever.
As unrest continued at college campuses across America on Wednesday, protests flared again at Emory University after social media posts encouraged protesters to gather at the quad in support of the pro-Palestinian movement.
Jailers in Georgia must now check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal immigration law. That's after Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law that gained traction after police accused a Venezuelan man of beating a nursing student to death on the University of Georgia campus.
A Pennsylvania man says his emotional support alligator named Wally has gone missing amid the coastal marshes of Georgia. Joie Henney's alligator has attracted thousands of social media followers over the years, with videos and photos showing people petting and cuddling the 5 1/2-foot reptile.
U.S. Rep. David Scott faces multiple Democratic primary opponents in his quest for a 12th congressional term. He's running in a sharply reconfigured suburban Atlanta district.
A bill introduced in both houses of Congress Wednesday would create Georgia’s first national park and mark a milestone for the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma.
Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law Wednesday a bill that requires law enforcement agencies in Georgia to check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal immigration law.
A small group of ride-share drivers gathered near the state capitol in Atlanta Wednesday to join a nationwide day of action.
Labor organizing is on the rise again in the South, including in Georgia. Some of the latest workers trying to unionize? The folks at the Waffle House.