Ken Stanford

The IRS is cutting taxpayer services to historically low levels just as President Barack Obama's health law will make filing a federal tax return more complicated for millions of families.

France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism and announced Wednesday it was sending an aircraft carrier to the Mideast to work more closely with the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants.

U.S. retail sales stumbled last month in a sign consumers remained frugal even as gas prices declined and hiring picked up.

The Foothills Land Conservancy says it protected 11,711 acres in 2014 through 13 conservation easements, some of them in north Georgia.

SnowWorld, Lake Lanier Islands new wintertime attraction, is closing earlier than planned as the South Hall resort moves ahead with plans for a new attraction at its most popular venue - LanierWorld.

A Vidalia onion farmer's lawsuit challenging the Georgia agriculture commissioner's authority to regulate the famous crop is going back to court.

House Republicans are taking broad steps to overturn President Barack Obama's immigration policies and remove protections for immigrants brought illegally to the country as kids.

Suwanee-based Sid

Religious groups have rallied to support former Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran, however Mayor Kasim Reed says his termination was based on his judgment and not anti-gay statements in his self-published religious book.

The stock market is ending a see-saw day with small losses, as energy shares slip lower with the price of oil.