A Georgia Senate committee has approved two bills that could allow the Buckhead neighborhood to secede from the city of Atlanta. It's the first time that an issue freighted with fears about crime and racial and economic division has moved forward in the General Assembly.
On the Monday Feb. 27 edition of Georgia Today: Lost cargo ship from Savannah may have been found, lawmakers are debating what kind of leaf blower you can own, and a huge fine for TitleMax.
Baseball's new rules designed to improve pace of play are coming fast at everyone, particularly the players. The most dramatic moment of the new pitch clock era arrived on the first full day of spring games.
The Georgia House could cast a vote on as early as this week on a bill that would give the Public Service Commission the sweeping power to regulate solar panel installers.
A new monument is planned to go up this May at the intersection of East Broad and East Henry Street in Savannah to commemorate suffragist and community leader Mamie George Williams.
Monday on Political Rewind: Host Bill Nigut returns! We'll discuss when Fulton County DA Fani Willis could release possible indictments from her investigation into the 2020 election. Meanwhile, Gov. Brian Kemp joined national GOP donors at a retreat in Texas, as he cuts ties with the state GOP. But first: Two Buckhead cityhood bills advance moments before our 9 a.m. show.
The Board of Elections sued the mayor and commissioners to retain sole authority to nominate job candidates after Mayor Lester Miller planned to appoint a selection committee.
At the core of the case against ex-DA Jackie Johnson is allegations of special treatment for her former employee, one of the men convicted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
During the civil rights movement, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee developed a system of shared rides for activists in the South called the Sojourner Motor Fleet. Morning Edition's Leah Fleming interviews members Freddie Greene Biddle and Judy Richardson to talk about how the fleet was organized right out of SNCC's Atlanta headquarters.
The Home Depot posted strong profits in its final quarter of 2022, but a tepid outlook for this year is sinking shares of the home improvement retailer.
A former Atlanta city official charged in a federal investigation into corruption at City Hall has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for accepting bribes. Jo Ann Macrina served as commissioner of the city Department of Watershed Management from 2011 through May 2016.
Yes, "Cocaine Bear" is a real movie. And it might be a hit. Since the trailer first debuted for Elizabeth Banks' very, very loosely based-on-a-true-story comedy has stoked a rabid zeitgeist.