Tax breaks for farmers, higher weight limits for trucks, and reforming Georgia’s Gratuities Clause prohibiting gifts to individuals or businesses top a list of proposals a legislative study committee issued during Thanksgiving week.
The Georgia Conservancy environmental organization highlighted the trends and changes to Georgia's agriculture and land at the first meeting of the Senate Study Committee on Preservation of Georgia's Farmlands on Tuesday, July 30, 2024.
A gravesite in Macon’s Rose Hill Cemetery containing the remains of a family killed in a grisly murder more than a century ago was vandalized earlier this month, and investigators are looking for the suspects.
Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River, with eight million acres of prime farmland. Yet, there’s so much concern over the spread of solar farms eating up huge portions of that acreage with vast fields of solar panels that the state Senate has formed a study committee to explore what can be done to save the most fertile land for farmers.
Some of the most important legislative debates at the Georgia Capitol don’t take place under the Gold Dome, but are instead hashed out across Mitchell Street, where committee rooms are often packed with lobbyists and concerned members of the public.
Two time capsules containing items from Macon’s past were opened and exhibited Tuesday morning, a half century after they were entombed at the city’s hospital.
The Atlanta Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) announces a kickoff event, “Crowning of Fountain (Stone) Hall,” to commemorate its plans to restore Fountain Hall on the campus of Morris Brown College.
The newest Ken Burns series premiering in September follows the vast and varied evolution of country music over the 20th century. The eight-part series...
