Georgia Government News

Peach State Republicans say the party's new vice presidential candidate is a strong conservative whose values match up well with Georgia's, and they expressed relief that John McCain didn't pick a more ...

Georgia's struggling public defender system has staged an open revolt against Gov.

A Georgia county school district lost its accreditation Thursday, an unusual move blamed in part on what has been called a "dysfunctional" school board.

Medicaid and PeachCare will be on the table as the state board of community health meets to discuss how to cuts its budget.

Georgia's ailing public defense system is bracing for more budget cuts. The system has planned a meeting Thursday to discuss how address to Gov.

A -- Gov. Sonny Perdue says Toyo Tire will create about 400 jobs with a $270 million investment in its third north Georgia expansion since 2004.

Georgia's landmark consumer-directed health care reform law has come under fire in a study conducted by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities , a liberal activist group that claims the reform will help ...

Submitted by the governor's office ATLANTA - September marks the 5th Annual National Preparedness Month, and Ready Georgia is reminding Georgians that it is the perfect time to prepare for emergencies.

The former commander of the Georgia National Guard has become the first Democrat to enter the 2010 race for governor.

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue wants to create a new state agency to deal with mental health and addictive disease programs.

Submitted by the Department of Human Resources ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Aging Services' GeorgiaCares SMP program is providing tips to Medicare beneficiaries on protecting ...

Submitted by the office of the governor ATLANTA - Gov. Perdue and state transportation leaders have launched the Investing in Tomorrow's Transportation Today Web site - www.IT3.GA.Gov. The site will provide ...

A new study says state human resource officials must increase the number of subsidized child care slots and boost future budgets for a program that helps low-income Georgia families with the cost of childcare.

When Russian troops invaded the Republic of Georgia this month, two little girls from New Jersey visiting their grandparents there were stranded behind a series of checkpoints.

Political pyramid scheme This recent editorial on the state's program of subsidizing local property taxes is from the Augusta Chronicle.

Many public sector managers rank downsizing and dismissing government workers somewhere between a toxic waste spill and a nuclear apocalypse on the undesirability scale.

Georgia may turn some of its troubled state psychiatric hospitals over to private operators as it prepares to make deep cuts in mental health spending.

State officials have launched a Web site for public input on transportation plans and will take part in a seven-city ``listening tour'' to allow Georgians a chance to speak directly about the initiative.

It was a tear-jerking Hollywood ending yesterday when two Jersey sisters dashed into daddy's arms after weeks stranded in war-torn land.

A state panel has recommended deep cuts to Georgia's social services programs, ranging from mental health to child welfare.