Ken Stanford

Wildfires burning in southeast Georgia are forcing rangers to keep the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge closed to the public during what's typically a busy holiday weekend.

The names of the victims of Friday morning's house explosion in South Hall - one of whom was flown to a burn center in Augusta - have been released.

The hotel maid who accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault may have inflicted fatal damage on her own case by lying to prosecutors about her life story and what she did in the moments after the suspected attack, legal experts said.

A federal appeals court on Friday struck down Michigan's ban on the consideration of race and gender in college admissions, saying it burdens minorities and violates the U.S. Constitution.

It may be even more difficult than it appears for Congress to reach a broad deal to raise America's borrowing limit and slash spending by Aug. 2. Maybe all but impossible.

The blind are losing reading services. A help line for the elderly has gone silent. And poor families are scrambling after the state stopped child care subsidies.

Georgia's state climatologist's office says June was one of the hottest on record in various Georgia cities, including Gainesville, and the warmest ever recorded in Columbus.

Dr. Bonita C. Jacobs officially begins her tenure as president of North Georgia College & State University today.

A Hispanic advocacy group has called on Latinos in Georgia to not "work, buy, sell or spend" today in protest of the new immigration law which is effective today.

Though most of the attention has been focused on the immigration law and the one allowing local referendums on Sunday alcohol sales, there are many other laws taking effect today in Georgia, including one that raises the age children must continue to use a booster car seat.