ATLANTA – Georgia Chief Justice Michael Boggs announced Tuesday that he will resign from the state Supreme Court at the end of next month, the last day of the Court’s current term.

Georgia public schools were short 5,300 teachers as of December, an ongoing problem state lawmakers have been unable to fix. They have a new proposed solution, but it would take awhile to put in place ...

ATLANTA – Legislation prohibiting Georgia Power from passing on the costs of providing electricity to data centers to residential and small business customers cleared a state Senate committee Tuesday.

ATLANTA – The state Senate is upping the ante on funding to help victims of Hurricane Helene recover from the massive storm that marched through South Georgia and east Georgia from Valdosta to Augusta ...

Sen. Freddie Powell Sims, D-Dawson, lamented that the senators had occupied an hour and a half debating the bill, which she deemed to be trivial. But Sen. Colton Moore, R-Trenton, said agency rules ...

Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns, R-Newington, has made codifying IVF protections into state law a priority for the 2025 General Assembly session.

ATLANTA – The state House of Representatives voted Monday to increase an income tax credit for Georgia taxpayers who contribute to nonprofit organizations that help foster children who age out of the ...

ATLANTA – Supporters of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge are taking another crack at protecting the environmentally fragile swamp from mining.

ATLANTA – A sharply divided Georgia Senate passed a comprehensive tort reform bill Friday that is Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s top priority for the 2025 General Assembly session.

Fentanyl needs to be targeted due to its enhanced potency and resulting lethality, said Sen. Russ Goodman, R-Cogdell, the chief sponsor of SB 79. The sentence for four grams of a traditional drug is a ...

“Georgia is the only state in our nation that is executing those with intellectual disabilities,” Rep. Bill Werkheiser, R-Glennville, chief sponsor of House Bill 123, told members of the House ...

The measure applies to the purveyors of essential services, including utilities. But Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, the chief sponsor of Senate Bill 57, said it should be called the “Georgia ban on de ...