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ATLANTA — Products from marijuana and hemp are either dangerous and should be banned or amazing and should be accessible to those who need and want them, a Georgia House study committee heard Tuesday.
ATLANTA – Freight railroad companies Union Pacific and Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern announced a merger agreement Tuesday that will create the nation’s first transcontinental railroad.
Georgia’s PSC runoff hand count varied from the machine count by two votes out of 13,917 cast. The inconsistency occurred in two of the batches and was within the “expected margin of human variation” ...
ATLANTA – The Georgia Ports Authority moved 5.7 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) during the last fiscal year, an 8.6% increase over fiscal 2024, the agency reported Tuesday. The Port of ...
During a four-day trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Kenneth G. Akpieyi, 44, played a key role in defrauding women by connecting them with romantic partners on Facebook, Instagram and other ...
Rep. Yasmin Neal, D-Jonesboro, suggested the General Assembly consider using tax revenue from gambling to recover some of the federal dollars the state will lose because of spending cuts by the Trump ...
ATLANTA — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has launched an investigation into a company accused of operating a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors while funding political campaigns.
ATLANTA — A second Republican congressman has joined the race to unseat U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff next year. In a brief announcement on social media Monday, U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, R-Jackson, joined fellow ...
ATLANTA — Thousands of Georgians will soon be spending money from the state’s new subsidy for private K-12 education, as the first quarterly payouts appear in “promise scholarship” accounts.
Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, who chairs the budget-writing Senate Appropriations Committee, announced plans Thursday for a series of hearings a newly created committee will hold later this summer ...
John King, one of the two Republicans who declared his candidacy to unseat Democratic incumbent John Ossoff next year, has suspended his campaign. “Right now it’s clear there’s little path forward to ...
ATLANTA — The federal government has told Georgia it will soon release the rest of the education funding it had held back from public K-12 schools. The Georgia Department of Education said Friday that ...