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The Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) has a new commissioner. The agency’s board has approved Gov. Brian Kemp’s nomination of Angelique McClendon to take the top post at the department. She ...
ATLANTA – Metro Atlanta suffers the third-worst levels of ozone pollution, otherwise known as smog, in the Southeast, according to a study released Wednesday by the American Lung Association. The ...
Sen. Brian Strickland, R-McDonough, a lawyer who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, registered with the Georgia Ethics Commissions’ campaign finance system in late March. Sen. Bill Cowsert, ...
ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp signed two tort reform bills Monday that supporters say should reverse a pattern of excessive jury awards they hold responsible for rising liability insurance premiums that ...
ATLANTA – A federal judge is giving the U.S. government a Tuesday evening deadline to reinstate the immigration status of 133 current and former college students who would have had to cease attending ...
ATLANTA – State Sen. Jason Esteves announced Monday that he will run for governor next year. The Atlanta Democrat was elected to the Senate in 2022 and is serving his second term under the Gold Dome.
There is another complicating factor for Georgia school systems: most are legally limited to a maximum tax rate of 20 mills. Typically, 90% of the costs go to paying teachers and other staff. The ...
ATLANTA – A federal judge in Atlanta is weighing whether to order the government to restore the immigration status of 133 current or former college students, 26 of them in Georgia, who recently ...
ATLANTA – The recently completed multi-year overhaul of Georgia 400 at Interstate 285 is starting to pay off.
House Speaker Jon Burns Thursday announced the creation of three “blue-ribbon” study committees that will consider further reforms to Georgia’s election procedures and examine the state’s hemp ...