ATLANTA - A bipartisan group of former elected leaders are joining forces to fight election lies that erode public confidence in the nation's electoral system. The Democracy Defense Project, launched Tuesday, is led by former Govs. Nathan Deal and Roy Barnes, former...

ATLANTA - A nonprofit that raises money to pay cash bail for criminal defendants held in pretrial detention is challenging a new state law that adds to the list of offenses that are ineligible for no-cash bail. The Barred Business Foundation and two individual...

ATLANTA - The General Assembly passed legislation this year guaranteeing Georgians the right to fish in the state’s navigable rivers and streams. Now comes what promises to be the trickier question of deciding which rivers and streams are navigable and which are not....

ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) will host four open houses next month on a plan to add toll lanes along the top end of Interstate 285 and along Georgia 400 in Cobb, Fulton, and DeKalb counties. The project will add two barrier-separated lanes...

ATLANTA - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Thursday announced new sanctions against a Mexican drug cartel that smuggles fentanyl and other synthetic opioids into the United States. Yellen's announcement during a news conference in Atlanta coincided with the...

Georgia Commissioner of Labor Bruce Thompson ATLANTA - Georgia's unemployment rate rose slightly last month but remained well above the national rate, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. The Peach State's jobless rate of 3.2% for May was eight-tenths...

ATLANTA - Hall County Solicitor General Stephanie Woodard has been indicted on 11 counts of theft by taking and 34 counts of false statements and writings. Woodard is accused of unlawfully obtaining funds from Hall County and the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of...

ATLANTA - Brian Jack, a former White House aide to Donald Trump, was well on his way Tuesday night to capturing the Republican nomination to seek Georgia's only vacant congressional seat. With 949 of 1,643 precincts reporting as of 9 p.m., Jack led former state Sen....