Five Georgia school districts land grants for electric buses
ATLANTA - Five Georgia school districts have been awarded federal grants to buy electric school buses. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will allocate $29.4 million in grant funding to the school districts in Brooks, Clayton, DeKalb, Douglas, and Jeff...
Grants to help schools match technical education with industry needs
ATLANTA - The state is awarding more than $200,000 in grants to help 15 school districts improve the alignment of their technical education programs with local industry needs. The districts will use the one-time-only grants to conduct in-depth reviews of workforce...
Carr asking feds to allow cellphone jamming in prisons
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr ATLANTA - Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to take immediate action to allow cellphone jamming devices to be used inside state prisons and local jails. The FCC currently...
Georgia appellate court sets October hearing in Trump’s bid to disqualify DA Willis
ATLANTA - The state Court of Appeals won't hear former President Donald Trump's appeal of a lower court ruling in the Georgia election interference case until October, multiple news outlets reported Monday. The October hearing date the appellate court has set for...
Smyre named to President’s Intelligence Advisory Board
ATLANTA - President Joe Biden Friday appointed former state Rep. Calvin Smyre to an independent board that advises the White House on intelligence issues. Smyre, a Democrat from Columbus who served for 48 years in the Georgia House of Representatives, will join the...
Cryptocurrency mining stirring concerns across rural Georgia
ATLANTA - Opposition is growing across Georgia to cryptocurrency mining, the process of creating Bitcoins and other forms of virtual currencies at giant server farm sites. Residents of Gilmer County in the North Georgia mountains recently beat back a proposed rezoning...
Ossoff pledges to keep pressuring postal service over mail processing delays
ATLANTA - U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is vowing to put "maximum pressure" on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to improve service at the regional mail processing center in Palmetto. "This is not on postal workers," Ossoff, D-Ga., said Thursday after touring the facility and...
Kemp marks completion of Plant Vogtle expansion
ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp celebrated the completion of the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion Wednesday while acknowledging the obstacles that had to be overcome in building the first nuclear reactors in the U.S. since the 1980s. The third of four reactors at the plant...