Besides the new Acworth hospital and the 200-plus bed tower being added at Wellstar Kennestone, Wellstar also is building a new 100-bed hospital and medical office building in Columbia County, adding ...

Democrats criticized the Living Infants and Fairness Equality (LIFE) Act Republican Gov. Brian Kemp steered through the legislature in 2019 as vague. House Bill 481 prohibits abortions after a fetal ...

ATLANTA – A former chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court will take over as interim president at Emory University to allow the current president to become the school’s chancellor.

ATLANTA – Cancer care is hard to come by in rural Georgia, as the medical payments system squeezes smaller service providers amid traditional challenges such as rising costs and inadequate ...

ATLANTA – The race to succeed Republican Burt Jones as Georgia’s next lieutenant governor is heating up, with multiple leading state senators vying for the position.

ATLANTA – An Augusta woman has pleaded guilty to running a “ghost” tax preparation business out of her home. Kim Brown, 40, faces up to three years in prison on each of two counts of aiding and ...

ATLANTA – The University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted Wednesday to name Christopher “Mike” Johnson as the sole finalist for president of the University of West Georgia (UWG).

ATLANTA – Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Wednesday disqualified state Public Service Commission (PSC) candidate Daniel Blackman from next month’s Democratic Primary ballot.

ATLANTA – It will remain illegal for people under 21 to carry a handgun in most public places in Georgia after the state Supreme Court upheld state limits on the right to bear arms.

ATLANTA – A state agency created two decades ago to hold Georgia public schools accountable for student performance will have a new interim leader.

A leading state Senate Republican announced Tuesday that he is forming a committee on the issue. Sen. John F. Kennedy, R-Macon, will also chair the new Study Committee on Combating Chronic Absenteeism ...

The rapid growth of both data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations across Georgia is spurring expectations of a huge increase in demand for electricity. In its 2025 IRP, Georgia Power is ...