Ken Stanford

A rezoning request, which would clear the way for a renovated Lanier Plaza shopping center on Thompson Bridge Road, has gotten a "thumbs up" from the city's planning staff.

Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak.

The Homeland Security Department has reissued asylum rules to immigration officials amid concerns that they are misinterpreting how to decide which immigrants get to see a judge for asylum claims.

Gov. Nathan Deal is expected to sign legislation next week expanding gun rights in Georgia.

South Korean news agency Yonhap reports that the captain of the South Korean ferry that sank two days ago has been arrested.

The Obama administration is extending indefinitely the amount of time federal agencies have to review the Keystone XL pipeline, the State Department said Friday, likely punting the decision over the controversial oil pipeline past the midterm elections.

For the more than 30 states that defaulted to the federal government under President Barack Obama's health care law, time may be running out to decide whether to create their own state-run insurance exchanges.