Korean construction materials manufacturer coming to Georgia
ATLANTA - A Korean manufacturer of construction materials will build its first U.S. plant in Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday. Duckshin Housing will invest more than $15 million in a plant in Athens that will create more than 100 jobs. The addition of...
Former state workers charged with unemployment insurance fraud
ATLANTA - Eight former state employees have been indicted on charges of unemployment insurance fraud allegedly committed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The indictments, handed up last week in Fulton County, accuse the eight defendants of filing false unemployment...
State agencies get OK to hike spending
ATLANTA - Stage agencies will get to ask for more money next year for the first time since fiscal 2020. Rick Dunn, director of the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget (OPB), informed state agency heads in a memo Wednesday that they will be allowed to request...
Local prosecutors file suit to block new state oversight board
ATLANTA - Four Georgia district attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of controversial legislation the General Assembly passed this year creating an oversight board for local prosecutors. Senate Bill 92 cleared the Republican-controlled...
Anti-Trump PAC airing ads in Georgia following Jan. 6 indictment
President Donald Trump rallied for then-Republican U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler ahead of the Senate runoff elections on Jan. 4, 2021. (Photo by Beau Evans) ATLANTA - An anti-Donald Trump Republican political action committee has launched a six-figure ad...
Jeff Cown to head state Environmental Protection Division
ATLANTA - The head of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Parks and Historic Sites Division will become director of the DNR's Environmental Protection Division (EPD) later this month. The state Board of Natural Resources voted unanimously Wednesday to approve...
Consumer advocate calls for more notice of hospital closures
ATLANTA - The state should require hospitals planning to close or eliminate core medical services to give 180 days written notice, the head of a statewide consumer advocacy group said Tuesday. That six months lead time should involve a review that would include a...
Long-delayed Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion goes into service
ATLANTA - The first of two new nuclear reactors being built at Plant Vogtle has gone into commercial operation, Georgia Power officials announced Monday. Unit 3 at the plant south of Augusta went into service early Monday morning, seven years after originally...