Federal judge considers order to protect foreign college students whose immigration status was revoked
ATLANTA - A federal judge in Atlanta is weighing whether to order the government to restore the immigration status of 133 current or former college students, 26 of them in Georgia, who recently received word that it had been revoked. Judge Victoria M. Calvert of the...
House Speaker Burns forms three study committees
ATLANTA - Georgia lawmakers will be focusing this summer and fall on some unfinished business left over from this year's General Assembly session. House Speaker Jon Burns Thursday announced the creation of three "blue-ribbon" study committees that will consider...
Georgia 400/I-285 interchange moving down bottleneck rankings
ATLANTA - The recently completed multi-year overhaul of Georgia 400 at Interstate 285 is starting to pay off. The heavily trafficked interchange has moved down the American Transportation Research Institute's rankings from the nation's ninth-worst freight traffic...
Georgia unemployment remains flat in March
ATLANTA - Georgia's unemployment rate held steady at 3.6% last month, six-tenths of a percentage point lower than the national rate. The number of jobs rose by 6,900 in March to 4.98 million. "Georgia's job market is full of opportunity, with nearly 5 million jobs and...
Sapelo Island conservation at stake in lawsuit over zoning
ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in cases that could decide in the near term whether large waterfront houses can be built on a sleepy island while in the long term reverberating far from the coast. The dispute is over the preservation...
University system sets spring enrollment record
ATLANTA - Student enrollment at Georgia's public colleges and universities reached 345,823 this semester, an all-time record for the spring, the University System of Georgia's vice chancellor of research and policy analysis reported Wednesday. The spring enrollment...
Authorities seize an amount of fentanyl that could kill every Georgian twice
ATLANTA - Federal law enforcement officials announced a major drug bust Tuesday, seizing more than 100 pounds of fentanyl and arresting 22. The takedown involved two Mexican drug cartels, but two kingpins remain on the loose. The federal government has issued a...
University system holding the line on tuition
ATLANTA - For the seventh time in the last 10 years, the University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents voted Tuesday to hold the line on tuition for in-state students. Since 2016, tuition at the state's 26 public colleges and universities has increased by less...