The Senate version now carries the same title as House Bill 267, which was named after Riley Gaines. She became a flag bearer for the movement to ban transgender athletes born male from female sports ...

ATLANTA – Children and adolescents won’t be able to use personal cellphones in public schools starting next fall after the General Assembly overwhelmingly supported banning the devices in elementary ...

The Port of Savannah wasn’t the only ports authority operation to set a record in February. The authority’s intermodal team set a new record Feb. 28 with 2,246 rail lifts in a 24-hour period. The only ...

Offering a carrot to entice school districts to offer property owners the tax break rather than opt out, the Senate version of the bill exempts funds spent on school construction from taxation in ...

Mazie Lynn Causey, from the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, was concerned about enhanced penalties for threats made on campus, an idea that she said was more punitive in a measure now ...

ATLANTA – A state Senate committee advanced legislation Monday following up on a bill the General Assembly passed last year aimed at illegal squatters.

House Bill 112, which passed unanimously, seeks to give one-time rebates equaling $250 to single tax return filers, $375 to heads of household and $500 to married couples filing jointly.

In Trump’s first term, he picked former Gov. Sonny Perdue, now chancellor of the University System of Georgia, to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Rep. Tom Price to lead the Department ...

The Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed the state Senate along party lines earlier this month. A committee of the House of Representatives spent four hours vetting the proposal on ...

Senate Bill 68 passed 91-82 – the minimum number of votes needed to approve legislation in the 180-member House – with several House Democrats supporting it and several Republicans voting against it.

Counties and local governments may push back as land is taken off their tax digest, Katherine Moore, president of the Georgia Conservancy, told the committee when it met last year. Other states, such ...

One amendment, by Rep. Saira Draper, D-Atlanta, would reduce the measure’s scope. The version that passed the Senate last month had set the threshold for a compliance impact analysis at $1 million, ...