Georgia Power Co. will pay $413 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the utility of reneging on financial promises to one of its nuclear reactor partners. The payments to Oglethorpe Power Corp. were announced Friday.
A prosecutor says no charges will be sought against Georgia state troopers who shot and killed an activist at the site of a planned police and firefighter training center near Atlanta.
Georgia's state taxes on gasoline and diesel will be suspended for another month. Gov. Brian Kemp extended the tax rollback in a Friday executive order. The suspension will now last at least through Nov. 11.
Some Democratic state lawmakers are demanding that Governor Brian Kemp allocate more funding to Georgia’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The State Election Board has rejected a proposal to let Georgians vote with hand-marked paper ballots when touch-screen voting machines can't guarantee privacy.
After months of work in South Carolina, the wave of Waffle House employees demanding better working conditions has made its way to Georgia.
The Atlanta City Council approved legislation Monday to allocate $11.6 million of the city’s affordable housing trust fund for eviction diversion efforts and to create affordable housing units.
The National Zoo's three giant pandas are set to return to China in December with no public signs the 50-year-old exchange agreement struck by President Richard Nixon will continue. The departure of the bears from the nation's capital would mean the only giant pandas left in America are at the Atlanta Zoo — and that agreement expires next year.