Rural hospital tax credit program gets clean bill of health
ATLANTA - Georgia's rural hospital tax credit program has received such a positive audit that the report doesn't recommend any improvements. The annual evaluation of the tax credit by the Georgia Department of Audits & Accounts, released late Thursday, concluded...
Federal judge temporarily halts fundraising by Kemp committee
ATLANTA - A federal judge ruled Thursday that Gov. Brian Kemp may not raise additional funds for his reelection bid from a leadership committee until the Republican gubernatorial nomination is decided. Legislation the Republican-controlled General Assembly passed last...
Kemp signs controversial education package
ATLANTA - Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a series of education bills Thursday, completing work on an agenda legislative Democrats, civil rights groups and educators have criticized as election-year politics. The package includes a Parents' Bill of Rights setting up...
Kemp signs bill giving GBI power to handle election fraud complaints
Photo by Beau Evans ATLANTA - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation will have the power to investigate complaints of election fraud on its own under legislation Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law Wednesday. The GBI component was part of a much larger election reform...
Internal poll shows Walker with 10-point lead over Warnock
ATLANTA - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker is leading incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock by 10 points, according to a poll released Wednesday by a political action committee supporting the University of Georgia football great. The survey of...
Kemp signs tax cut bill
Gov. Brian Kemp ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp signed the largest tax cut in Georgia history Tuesday, legislation he said when fully implemented will save a family of four with an annual household income of $60,000 more than $600 a year. The bill, which the...
Biden pardons one Georgian, commutes sentences of seven others
President Joe Biden ATLANTA - President Joe Biden pardoned an Athens man Tuesday and commuted the prison sentences of seven other Georgians, all non-violent drug offenders, in the first acts of clemency of his presidency. Dexter Eugene Robinson, 52, was convicted in...
Military housing contractor at Fort Gordon draws fire at U.S. Senate hearing
ATLANTA - One of the nation's leading providers of privatized military housing is failing to make needed repairs and respond to environmental hazards inside homes at Fort Gordon, witnesses told a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday. A former resident of the Army base near...