Between 2022 and 2023, there was a 63% increase in the length of time people experienced homelessness in DeKalb County. A disproportionate number of those impacted are children and people of color.

An enthusiastic crowd danced to DJ sets and listened to a parade of high-profile speakers before welcoming Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama to the stage.

Housing leaders from Dekalb County the Us department of Housing and Urban Development held a ribbon-cutting in Doraville for a 100-unit affordable senior housing complex.

National Hispanic Heritage Month is being celebrated now through Oct. 15 with events happening around metro Atlanta. 

Authorities say the teenage brother of a U.S. Air Force airman who was shot and killed in his home by a Florida sheriff's deputy in May was shot to death this week near Atlanta. The killing of Senior Airman Roger Fortson made global headlines in May. Now, the family is grieving the Tuesday killing of his 16-year-old brother, Andre Fortson, in DeKalb County, near Atlanta's east side.

In a historic vote in DeKalb County, former county commissioner Lorraine Cochran-Johnson defeated Larry Johnson in Tuesday’s runoff election for the office of chief executive officer.

Vandalism and violence against markers to Black history are fairly widespread, and Georgia is no exception. In February, a historical marker memorializing Black victims of lynching in DeKalb County was stolen. Organizers who worked to install the marker feel the disappearance is about more than just a missing piece of metal. GPB’s Pamela Kirkland explains.

An appeals court has overturned the convictions of a former Georgia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed naked man. Robert "Chip" Olsen responded to a call of a naked man behaving erratically at an Atlanta-area apartment complex in March 2015.

Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against an Atlanta-area proposed police and firefighter training facility that critics call "Cop City."

Four Georgia district attorneys are challenging the constitutionality of a law that allows a newly appointed state panel to remove them from office.

A federal judge has significantly extended the deadline for Atlanta organizers who have been trying to gather more than 70,000 signatures to force a vote on the construction of a police and firefighter training center that critics call "Cop City."

Four DeKalb residents are filing a lawsuit against the city of Atlanta saying they should be able to help collect signatures in a petition calling for a referendum to stop a new police training center.

The city of Brookhaven has officially asked DeKalb County to let voters have a say in its planned annexation of Toco Hills neighborhoods and commercial areas.

Monday on Political Rewind: DeKalb Co. DA Sherry Boston announced she's withdrawing her office from criminal cases against "Cop City" protestors, citing prosecutorial differences with the Attorney General's office. Plus, the Department of Justice turns their attention to states' false electors.

 

Opponents of Atlanta's proposed police and firefighter training center are suing the city. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, they say the city clerk is delaying a petition drive to force a voter referendum on whether construction should proceed.