The Georgia House passed the budget for the upcoming fiscal year on Friday afternoon — and likely put the kibosh on Buckhead cityhood for the session.

The Senate voted on new county commissioner districts for Richmond County, which includes Augusta.  

A bill that would bar transgender athletes from playing on girls’ sports teams passed a Senate committee Wednesday and could head to the Senate for a full vote.

The bill also bans the abortion drug from public colleges.

A bill to provide worker’s compensation for first responders with PTSD has been held up in committee.

Perdue’s lawyers say a bill signed into law by Kemp last year leaves the former senator at an unfair fundraising disadvantage by allowing high-ranking elected officials, including the sitting governor, to raise unlimited cash during the three-month legislative session leading up to the party primary using special “leadership committees.”

With several nationally watched races in 2022, Georgia candidates for U.S. Senate, House and other top offices are raising (and spending) serious money.

Georgia’s Student Access Loan program was established in 2012 as a last resort for students who had exhausted their other options. In the last school year, it helped about 5,600 students with nearly $28 million in loans across 78 institutions at public, private and technical schools.

On this week's episode, we take a deeper look at a story reported with the Center for Public Integrity and NPR about what Lincoln County can tell us about the present — and future — of the fight for voting rights.

The bill would allow Georgians to carry a concealed handgun without first obtaining a permit.

Legislation intended to keep politics out of school board elections advanced out of the Georgia Senate Rules Committee and is expected on the Senate floor on Wednesday.

Three years after the state allowed local production of low-THC oil, families who celebrated then still can't legally access the treatment. Now lawmakers are under pressure to revisit the broken medical cannabis system.

Criminal justice reform advocates in Georgia want to build on recent momentum with new legislation to remove barriers that make people with criminal records five times more likely to be jobless than Georgians overall.

Georgia House Speaker David Ralston filed House Bill 1013 on Wednesday. During a morning press conference, he said the bill represents input from the Georgia Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission, formed by Gov. Brian Kemp in 2019.

Lawmakers in Georgia are expected to introduce an omnibus mental health bill at the steps of the Capitol at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. House Speaker David Ralston will announce the bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Todd Jones and Democratic Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver.