Bryan Pirkle

The National Weather Service held an emergency weather briefing tonight to inform local officials about the ongoing winter weather event that is blanketing North Georgia.

The American Medical Association says it strongly supports legislation that would change the way Medicare pays doctors, to emphasize quality care and not just sheer volume of services.

Area schools must soon limit selling food items for fundraisers and through vending machines thanks to a new federal law called the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.

Aerialist Nik Wallenda has completed a tightrope walk inside the Georgia Dome, cheered on by more than 30,000 people as he carefully moved more than 100 feet above the field.

A judge has dismissed World Trade Center neighbors' lawsuit challenging a security plan they say would burden them with ``fortress-like'' security for the rebuilt site.

An attorney for Georgia's ethics commission is asking a judge to avoid an upcoming trial in the case of a former employee who alleges retaliation for investigating ethics complaints against Gov. Nathan Deal.

House Republican leaders are openly struggling to devise a way forward on must-do legislation to increase the government's borrowing cap.

The federal government says it will temporarily suspend sales of U.S. Treasury securities to state and local governments starting at noon on Friday, its first step to avoid breaching the nation's borrowing limit this year.

A bill has been filed in the state Senate that would have Georgia move toward privatizing some state child welfare services.

The head of Georgia's emergency office helped plan for the 1996 Olympics and an international meeting of foreign leaders on the state's coastline. He leads a national association of disaster planners and testified to Congress about the threat of cyberattacks. Yet a simple snowstorm could imperil his career.