Fifth and eighth graders posted the biggest drops in English proficiency rates. In fifth grade, 43% scored proficient or better, down 5 percentage points from fifth grade test takers the prior year.

Robert Roberson and Marcus Phillips are charged with violating the inmate’s constitutional rights by showing deliberate indifference to a fire in his cell that caused his death. The indictment, ...

ATLANTA — Chris Carr, Georgia’s attorney general and a candidate for governor, is suing his Republican primary opponent in federal court over a campaign finance issue. The lawsuit in U.S. District ...

ATLANTA — Another Democrat has entered the contest to succeed term-limited Gov. Brian Kemp in Georgia’s highest elected office, a candidate with a history of winning statewide, albeit a while ago.

ATLANTA – Five soldiers were shot Wednesday morning at the U.S. Army’s Fort Stewart southwest of Savannah.

ATLANTA – A plan to add toll lanes along Georgia 400 in Fulton and Forsyth counties is getting a big boost from the federal government.

A former DeKalb County commissioner learned that costly lesson Monday in a federal appeals court when judges sided with two women who are seeking $100,000 in damages and legal costs. The story almost ...

ATLANTA – Georgia energy regulators voted unanimously Tuesday to hold hearings this fall on a Georgia Power request to certify 9,900 megawatts of new power generating capacity environmentalists say ...

ATLANTA – The son of the owner and president of a financial institution that is the subject of a federal lawsuit and a state investigation has resigned from the Georgia Republican State Committee ...

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.

The list of projects includes previously approved new gas turbines to be built at Georgia Power’s Plant Yates near Newnan and Plant McIntosh near Savannah as well as a request for five additional ...