Red staters urge voluntary approach to firearm safety
ATLANTA - Even the reddest of red states can promote safe firearm storage without stepping on the Second Amendment, officials from two red states told Georgia lawmakers this week. Republican state Rep. Steve Eliason of Utah and Kathy Martinez-Prather, director of the...
State tax revenues decline in September
ATLANTA - Georgia tax collections fell by 2.8% last month, resuming a downward pattern that has taken hold for much of this year, the state Department of Revenue reported Friday. After posting a one-month gain in August compared to the same month last year, state...
Helene damage to Georgia farms estimated at $6.46 billion
ATLANTA - Hurricane Helene caused at least $6.46 billion in losses to Georgia farmers, according to preliminary estimates released Thursday by the University of Georgia College of Agriculture & Environmental Science. That represents direct crop losses, losses to...
Parents of teen shooting victims push for safe firearm storage legislation
ATLANTA - Georgia lawmakers should enact safe firearm storage legislation to reduce an epidemic of gun violence most dramatically illustrated by last month's school shooting in Barrow County, two parents of teens killed by guns said Thursday. "It is a pain that never...
Georgians still feeling impacts of Helene as Milton brushes by
ATLANTA - About 50,000 Georgia electric customers were still without power Wednesday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, as yet another massive storm - Hurricane Milton - was bearing down on Florida. Most Georgians remaining without power are in rural areas served...
Judge rules Kemp doesn’t have to investigate State Election Board members
ATLANTA - A Fulton County Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force Gov. Brian Kemp to schedule an administrative hearing on whether to remove three members of the State Election Board. The ruling by Judge Ural Glanville sided with a legal...
Board of Regents seeking to ban transgender women from college sports
ATLANTA - The University System of Georgia Board of Regents is asking two organizations that govern collegiate sports to ban transgender women from participating in women's sports. Tuesday's unanimous vote came two years after the Georgia High School Association...
Kemp declares emergency with massive Hurricane Milton headed for Florida
ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp issued a state of emergency Tuesday for 38 Georgia counties likely to be affected by Hurricane Milton, a massive storm expected to make landfall in west-central Florida Wednesday night. Milton intensified rapidly Monday into a Category 5...