Atlanta and the agencies that provide services for the city's surging homeless population have been mobilizing resources for an ambitious plan to "eliminate" homelessness before visitors arrive for ...

Following the success of a pilot program used at 18 schools last year, the DeKalb County School District is expanding its ban on cellphones and other electronic devices to all 125 schools.

Georgia's Ethics Commission says a political action committee linked to what federal investigators have called a Ponzi scheme illegally sought to influence elections.

Georgia’s State Election Board has accused the rideshare company Lyft of violating Georgia’s election law by offering discounted rides to users who were heading to the polls.

Climate scientists warn that extreme heat events like this are becoming more frequent due to human-caused climate change.

On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health care safety net for millions of low-income Americans in what would become ...

Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene became the first congressional Republican to use the word “genocide” to refer to Israel’s actions in Gaza on Monday, and a Democratic member of the Georgia ...

The Decatur planters will live on, but this time in residents’ yards. The city auctioned off numerous planters online and in ...

The U.S. economy expanded at a surprising 3% annual pace from April through June, bouncing back at least temporarily from a first-quarter drop that reflected disruptions from President Donald Trump's ...

Atlanta real estate developer and philanthropist Tom Cousins has died, a source close to the family confirmed late Tuesday night. He was 93.

Residents in the Southeast U.S. are no strangers to heat in the summertime, but this week's sweltering hot weather set at least one record and has forecasters urging residents to limit time outside on ...

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Susan Monarez to be President Donald Trump’s director of the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.