ATLANTA — Over the 2024 Labor Day holiday travel period, which began Friday, August 29 at 6:00 p.m. and concluded Monday, September 1 at 11:59 p.m., traffic crashes across Georgia claimed 15 lives.

ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) is proposing new rules aimed at allowing the state agency to resume its reviews of new data center projects.

Two adults were killed and seven children injured in an accident in a remote area of an all-terrain vehicle park in Alabama, authorities said. No one was wearing a harness or restraint in the off-road vehicle.

ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp threw his full support behind football coach Derek Dooley on Saturday, saying he believes the son of legendary Bulldogs coach Vince Dooley can unseat Democrat Jon Ossoff from the U.S. Senate next year.

ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has put on hold his ruling ordering the government of Georgia's most populous county to pay $10,000 a day until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board.

ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will stop providing a print edition at the end of the year and go completely digital, marking a dramatic change for a storied newspaper that was founded just a few years after the end of the Civil War.

ATLANTA — Thousands of Georgians are expected to travel this weekend to celebrate the unofficial end of summer. The Georgia Department of Public Safety is reminding drivers that Georgia State Patrol Troopers and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officers will be out in full force with high-visibility patrols focused on impaired drivers, speeders, seatbelt violations, and distracted or unsafe drivers on interstates and secondary roads.

ATLANTA – The Georgia National Guard will deploy about 75 soldiers and airmen to help support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations across the state, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Monday.

DUNWOODY, Ga. (AP) — DeKalb County Police Sgt. Tre Jones knew he would pick David Rose to lead his police academy class on day one, a decision that usually takes four to six weeks to make.

ATLANTA (AP) — An independent monitor appointed to oversee an agreement meant to address dangerous and unhealthy jail conditions in Georgia's most populous county said significant understaffing creates “serious safety risks for residents and staff.”

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Second-term Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins is seeking to solidify support as he seeks the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff in 2026.

NEW YORK (AP) — At least 600 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are receiving permanent termination notices in the wake of a recent court decision that protected some CDC employees from layoffs but not others.

ATLANTA – Georgia could eliminate its income tax without raising sales taxes to make up the lost revenue, one of the nation’s leading tax reform advocates said Tuesday.

ATLANTA — A former district attorney in the state court system was sworn in Monday as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed Margaret "Meg" Heap to the post effective Monday. The swearing-in ceremony took place at the federal courthouse in Augusta

ATLANTA — A commemorative Forever stamp honoring former President Jimmy Carter will be released on Oct. 1 in Atlanta, the U.S. Postal Service announced Monday.

ATLANTA – Georgia Power has received delivery of the first of three new gas turbines at Plant Yates near Newnan, the Atlanta-based utility announced Friday.

MADISON, Ga. — A judge in Morgan County could set a precedent by forcing Georgia property owners who sued to halt development of a massive state-backed auto factory near their properties to pay for the other side’s legal costs.

ATLANTA - A Southwest Georgia man was convicted in federal court this week of wire fraud resulting from a pandemic fraud scheme involving family members.

ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump has endorsed Burt Jones' Republican bid for governor in Georgia, a boost to the incumbent lieutenant governor's effort to set himself up as the 2026 frontrunner for the GOP nomination.

ATLANTA – Another ranking Republican state senator has joined the wide-open race to succeed Republican Burt Jones as lieutenant governor.

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer.

ATLANTA (AP) — A man opened fire outside the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Friday, leaving bullet marks in windows across the sprawling campus and killing a police officer before he was found dead in a nearby building, authorities said.

ATLANTA — A Floyd County man on probation following convictions for making terroristic threats and other crimes was arrested Friday on charges of threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump.

ATLANTA (AP) — Two Atlanta transit police officers were shot after they tried to confront a man urinating in a train station, investigators say.

ATLANTA — Georgia students posted modest academic gains in most of the tested grades and subjects last school year, except in one key area.