Ken Stanford

Georgia's tax collections plummeted in January, a sober sign for lawmakers who are wrestling with the state budget and looking for cash to hand Georgians an election-year tax cut.

The Georgia House signed off on a $300 million midyear budget Friday that includes money for struggling Grady Memorial Hospital and funds for new reservoirs to bolster the drought-stricken state's water supply.

Barack Obama may have dominated the vote in Georgia's presidential preference primary. But, so far, he's trailing when it comes to the state's superdelegates, party insiders and elected officials who aren't bound by the election results and are free to change their minds.

Not everyone is on board with Governor Perdue's plans to ease watering restrictions.

Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle said Thursday he wants to give local governments the ability to charge a one-cent sales tax that would fund transportation, including mass transit.

The number of newly laid off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits dropped last week, but not enough to indicate that strains on the labor market are easing.

Laptop and mobile device users at North Georgia College & State University will soon have more options and freedom to access the Internet as the wireless network grows during the next several months.

Hall was in the majority in northeast Georgia when it came to going for Mike Huckabee in Tuesday's Republican President Primary, but not so in lining up behind Barack Obama on the Democratic ballot.

Brenau University

The attorney for the owners of a Winder restaurant being sued by four black former employees who say they were unfairly strip searched says the parent company has done nothing wrong.