Georgia News

A group of injured service members are spending the weekend on Lake Lanier.

The Obama administration is giving seven more states and the District of Columbia continued flexibility from the requirements of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind education law.

Georgia public health officials say people should limit prolonged outdoor activity with temperatures expected to stay in the 90s for much of the week.

In its third order in just one day, the Supreme Court of Georgia (SCOGA) dismissed the State’s appeal of a number of rulings by the Athens-Clarke County Superior Court in the death penalty case of Jamie Hood.

We're right in the thick of "budget season" as governments across the region work to prepare and approve their FY 2016 budgets ahead of the July 1 deadline, required by state law. Suwanee is no different, and officials are holding their final budget hearing Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Suwanee City Hall

One ballot has separated Sheri Smallwood Gilligan from confirming the title of State Representative.

Gov. Nathan Deal announced Wednesday during an economic development mission to Brazil that Stefanini, a leading global information technology (IT) service provider based in São Paulo, Brazil, will create 400 jobs by the end of 2016 through an expansion of its Atlanta office.

The year is 1945, and a strafing mission conducted by the 359th Fighter Group, 368th Fighter Squadron has just ended, destroying 15 enemy ships in Niedersachsen State, Germany. One soldier is suffering, his coolant scope torn from his P51-D Mustang. The squadron goes to land, but it's too late. The young pilot attempts to make an emergency landing in an open field, but instead, crashes on the ground in enemy territory.

The family of a missing Dawson County man reached out to the local media Wednesday, hoping to persuade the public to bring fresh leads in the case.

Both hunters and fishermen turned out for the first half of a public forum at the Gainesville Civic Center to discuss the possibility of raising the cost of hunting and fishing license through the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and they were generally supportive of the idea.