ATLANTA – Georgia’s Teacher of the Year is joining the state Department of Education to boost the agency’s teacher recruitment and retention efforts. Christy Todd, who spent 15 years teaching in ...

ATLANTA – Republican congressional candidate Wayne Johnson criticized incumbent U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Albany, Sunday for losing touch with Southwest Georgia’s 2nd Congressional District during ...

The record high-school graduation rate is among several indicators of success announced in recent weeks. The Class of 2024 also beat the national average on the SAT and showed strong improvement on ...

Twenty-six states have child-access prevention (CAP) laws that allow prosecutors to bring charges against adults who intentionally or carelessly allow children to have unsupervised access to firearms, ...

ATLANTA – A Fulton County Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force Gov. Brian Kemp to schedule an administrative hearing on whether to remove three members of the State ...

The Georgia Senate created the study committee back in March, but the issue of safe firearms storage took on greater urgency last month when two students and two teachers were shot to death at ...

ATLANTA – The University System of Georgia Board of Regents is asking two organizations that govern collegiate sports to ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports. Tuesday’s unanimous ...

After posting a one-month gain in August compared to the same month last year, state revenues declined by $91.2 million in September compared to September 2023. However, tax receipts were up slightly ...

ATLANTA – Hurricane Helene caused at least $6.46 billion in losses to Georgia farmers, according to preliminary estimates released Thursday by the University of Georgia College of Agriculture & ...