Georgia Government News

It's become a familiar, if painful, annual tradition here: Civil rights activists gathered Friday at the Moore's Ford Bridge to re-enact the unsolved 1946 lynchings of two black couples.

A former state employee claimed Tuesday in a federal lawsuit that top Georgia legislative officials fired her because she said she would come to work dressed as a female as she prepared for a sex-change ...

Chickamauga and Dalton city school systems were among the districts in Georgia that met federal No Child Left Behind requirements by achieving "adequate yearly progress," according to data released this morning ...

In its ongoing campaign against litter, Keep Columbia County Beautiful recently opted to take part in the Clean Community Challenge.

Gov. Sonny Perdue will be heading to China next week, for his second trip there in the past four months.

Georgia's top environmental official believes the three states battling over water shouldn't wait for Congress to approve an independent study of the issue.

A state audit recommended possible criminal charges against a Laurens County woman, who allegedly misappropriated more than $1 million in state teaching incentive funds while employed as the Academic Coach ...

Georgia's ailing public defender system, once praised as a national model for providing legal representation to poor defendants, is now in a legal tug-of-war with critics who say it has failed to live up to its ...

Submitted by the Department of Agriculture In order to help Georgia save a little water, Commissioner of Agriculture Tommy Irvin is encouraging Department of Agriculture employees to leave the razor by the sink ...

Yet another story has surfaced about Diebold engaging in cyber-tampering with election results.

The state asked a judge today to throw out a lawsuit accusing Georgia officials of being stingy about school spending, saying that the districts behind the lawsuit can't prove that more spending would increase ...

Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John W. Oxendine announced that the Insurance Department has improved and redesigned its Website to be more navigable and user friendly.

A former state employee filed a federal lawsuit claiming that top legislative officials fired her after she said she would come to work as a woman.

Jerry Keen give his perspective in Macon. A north Georgia legislator's plan to wrest the gavel away from Georgia Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson doesn't stand much chance, Majority Leader Jerry Keen told ...

Floridians upset by the lower flows coming down the Apalachicola River from Georgia made a clear point Monday: The tri-state battle over water isn't just a case of people vs.

The University of Georgia is bracing for possible layoffs as part of state-mandated budget cuts for all Georgia colleges.

Hot, hazy conditions in the Atlanta area are expected to continue Monday. According to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, the region's smog index is likely to remain at "orange," meaning the air ...

It looks as if Freddie Powell Sims will make history as the first woman and the first African American to represent Albany in the State Senate.

' Georgia Conservation Voters heralded yesterday's primary election outcomes as a significant victory for Georgia's environment.

Raw Story reports: A leading cyber-security expert and former adviser to Sen. John McCain says he has fresh evidence regarding election fraud on Diebold electronic voting machines during the 2002 Georgia ...