ATLANTA - Cybercrime is on the rise in Georgia and around the country. Georgia ranked 11th in internet-related complaints last year, up from 13th in 2023, according to the FBI's newly released Internet Crime Report 2024. The potential losses of $420 million represented a 40% increase between 2023 and last year.

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.

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 are hurting Georgia businesses’ bottom lines.

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. Before that, he spent nearly a decade as a member of the Board of Education for Atlanta Public Schools.

ATLANTA – Georgia’s unemployment rate held steady at 3.6% last month, six-tenths of a percentage point lower than the national rate. The number of jobs rose by 6,900 in March to 4.98 million.

ATLANTA – Student enrollment at Georgia’s public colleges and universities reached 345,823 this semester, an all-time record for the spring, the University System of Georgia’s vice chancellor of research and policy analysis reported Wednesday.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia's highest court waded Wednesday into a fight between Black landowners and local officials who have weakened long-standing protections for one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities founded by freed slaves.

FORT BENNING (AP) — The Army has restored the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an 18-year-old corporal who fought in World War I rather than a Confederate general.

SMYRNA, Ga. – Gov. Brian Kemp had a pithy message as he signed two tax relief bills Tuesday. “Tax cut bill on tax day,” the Republican governor exclaimed as he prepared to sign legislation accelerating income tax reductions the General Assembly put in place last year.

ATLANTA – Federal law enforcement officials announced a major drug bust Tuesday, seizing more than 100 pounds of fentanyl and arresting 22. The takedown involved two Mexican drug cartels, but two kingpins remain on the loose.

ATLANTA – For the seventh time in the last 10 years, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted Tuesday to hold the line on tuition for in-state students.

ATLANTA – Out-of-state investors own tens of thousands of houses in Georgia, and lawmakers tried to limit the number due to concerns about decaying properties and diminished options for would-be homeowners.

COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) — A Walmart employee shot and killed a co-worker inside a Georgia store and critically wounded another worker outside early Friday while the business was closed to the public, authorities said.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The University System of Georgia announced Tuesday it's consolidating East Georgia State College and Georgia Southern University. The Board of Regents will vote on the plan to close the school next week, which arose after years of declining enrollment at East Georgia State.

CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — Federal authorities have found that a Georgia company improperly stored hazardous chemicals before a fire southeast of Atlanta last year that produced a toxic chemical cloud over the area.

ATLANTA – The Port of Brunswick handled an all-time record of 91,360 units of Roll-on/Roll-off cargo last month, up 18% compared to March of last year, the Georgia Ports Authority reported Tuesday.

ATLANTA — An unexpectedly early end to the 2025 General Assembly session Friday night left a bid to put some restrictions on school-zone speed cameras in Georgia on the shelf until next year.

ATLANTA — Georgia legislators clocked out unusually early Friday night, leaving behind stacks of unfinished bills, many of them torn into pieces for the ceremonial throwing of confetti that marks the final moments of a legislative session.

A deadly car accident killed five people in coastal Georgia on Sunday morning, according to state police. A vehicle burst into flames after it collided with another vehicle headed southbound on I-95 in McIntosh County around 6 a.m.

ATLANTA – Legislation denying so-called gender-transitioning treatment to inmates in Georgia’s prison system gained final passage in the Republican-controlled General Assembly Wednesday after state House Democrats walked out of the chamber in protest.

ATLANTA – The state of Georgia has won another legal case in its long-running “water wars” with Florida and Alabama. A federal judge Monday sided with Georgia, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), and the Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority in a dispute over the allocation of water from Lake Allatoona.

ATLANTA – Legislation banning male student athletes who identify as transgender from participating in female sports in Georgia cleared the Republican-controlled General Assembly Monday.

ATLANTA – U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered the Justice Department to drop a lawsuit the Biden administration filed in 2021 challenging an overhaul of state election law passed by the Republican-controlled General Assembly.

ATLANTA – A sweeping school safety bill in reaction to the mass shooting at Apalachee High School last fall cleared a Senate committee Thursday, keeping it in play just ahead of the deadline for final passage this year.

ATLANTA – Children and adolescents won’t be able to use personal cellphones in public schools starting next fall after the General Assembly overwhelmingly supported banning the devices in elementary and middle schools.