State awards teacher tax credits
ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Education has awarded the first teacher recruitment tax credits to 69 teachers from across the state. The General Assembly voted unanimously last year to create the tax credit to incentivize teachers to ply their profession in rural...
Georgia Power hit with second lawsuit over Plant Vogtle
ATLANTA - A second minority utility partner in the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion is mounting an effort to cap its costs to complete the project. The Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG Power) has filed a lawsuit against Georgia Power in Fulton County...
Georgia Supreme Court overturns hot-car death convictions
ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court reversed the conviction of Justin Ross Harris for murder and cruelty charges related to the death of his young son, Cooper, in a hot car in 2014. Evidence improperly admitted at trial may have swayed the jury to convict Harris, the...
Nguyen, Bailey win Democratic nominations for secretary of state, lieutenant governor in Tuesday runoff
ATLANTA - Bee Nguyen won the Georgia primary runoff for the Democratic Party’s nomination for secretary of state on Tuesday night. Nguyen won 77% of the runoff votes, while her opponent, Dee Dawkins-Haigler, won 23%. Nguyen currently represents Atlanta in the Georgia...
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, other Georgians testify before Jan. 6 committee
ATLANTA - Tuesday’s Jan. 6 hearings D.C. focused on how then-President Donald Trump and his allies attempted to get election workers in Georgia to illegally change the state’s 2020 election results. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his Chief Operating...
Oglethorpe Power freezes its costs to complete Plant Vogtle
ATLANTA - A minority utility partner in the nuclear expansion at Plant Vogtle is freezing its capital costs on the long-delayed, overbudget project. Oglethorpe Power is one of three minority partners on the construction of two additional nuclear reactors at the plant...
Three Georgia power plants land on list of nation’s dirtiest
ATLANTA - Georgia is home to three of the nation’s 100 dirtiest power plants, the Atlanta-based Environment Georgia Research & Policy Center reported Monday. Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen near Cartersville topped the Georgia list for carbon emissions and is ranked...
Third case of monkeypox confirmed by Georgia Department of Public Health
ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) confirmed a third case of monkeypox in the state Friday. An Atlanta man who recently traveled to Chicago for a convention has been diagnosed with the disease, DPH spokeswoman Nancy Nydam said. The man’s...