The number of employed Georgians also fell by 4,973 to 5.2 million, while the number of unemployed increased by 108 to 198,492. Initial jobless claims rose by 11,727 in December to 31,046.

ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Agriculture has detected a positive case of bird flu in a second commercial poultry flock in Elbert County.

But when lawmakers reconvene under the Gold Dome next week, they will begin examining an ambitious list of building projects fueled by the huge budget surplus the state has been built up during the ...

ATLANTA – The winter storm that hit large parts of Georgia Tuesday is over, but state Department of Transportation crews were continuing to treat and plow roads Wednesday in areas that haven’t seen ...

ATLANTA – In a reversal of the usual pattern, the latest winter storm is expected to dump more snow on Middle and South Georgia than the northern half of the state.

With Kemp’s emergency declaration, the State Operations Center in southeast Atlanta has been activated, and the Georgia Department of Defense has been authorized to deploy up to 250 Georgia National ...

ATLANTA – The Justice Department has filed a voting rights lawsuit against Houston County challenging its at-large method of electing county commissioners.

ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp leaves for Europe this week on a trade mission to Germany and Poland. The trip is intended to strengthen the Peach State’s existing economic and cultural ties with the two ...

Kemp’s $40.5 billion fiscal 2025 mid-year budget, $4.4 billion above the spending plan the General Assembly adopted last spring, dips into the state’s healthy surplus to bankroll a $1 billion one-time ...

ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp has established a state commission to promote the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence next year. Congress established the U.S.