Nathan Deal News

Blue laws preventing Savannah bars from opening on Sundays has been shelved this weekend to give the city's watering holes a chance to fill their cash registers with extra St. Patrick's Day green.

Patch Staff Report Gov. Nathan Deal announced on Thursday the creation of the Child Welfare Reform Council to improve the state's child welfare system and better protect Georgia's most vulnerable citizens.

Legislators are considering a bill that calls for dedicating Ga. 347 between Interstate 985 and Braselton town limits as Historic Friendship Road, Sen. Butch Miller, R-Gainesville, said Friday.

The Georgia Senate continued practicing its sleight of hand with House bills this week, making one vanish, restoring a second to its original form and causing a third to reappear as the General Assembly entered the final three days of the 2014 session.

In a strongly worded letter, Gov. Nathan Deal has lobbed the harbor deepening ball squarely onto U.S. Army Secretary John M. McHugh's court, telling the Pentagon official the state believes he has the legal authority to allow execution of a Project Partnership Agreement that would put the Savannah port project back on track.

Recognizing that a vote empowering the city to create a tax allocation district on South Main Street will not make its way onto the May 20 ballot, Statesboro officials are setting their sights on Nov. 4. "We're getting it done in November, that's for sure," said Allen Muldrew, executive director of the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority.

Stewart Webster Hospital is among the rural medical centers that have closed in Georgia over the last year.

The Democratic challenger to Gov. Nathan Deal has pulled into the lead, according to a public-opinion survey released Thursday.

Crossing the center line led to a 23-year-old man's arrest Wednesday morning after police found a small amount of synthetic marijuana in his vehicle, according to court testimony.

Gov. Nathan Deal, who ordered an internal review after a potent winter storm caught officials unprepared in January, outlined a wide-ranging plan Tuesday for responding to severe weather in the future.

The pace of business at the State Capitol has quickened, and that's especially true for certain types of business.

Authorities in Douglas County say nine good Samaritans and two firefighters rescued a man from his burning truck during a chain reaction crash on I-20 west of Atlanta.

Authorities in Douglas County say nine good Samaritans and two firefighters rescued a man from his burning truck during a chain reaction crash on I-20 west of Atlanta.

Authorities in Douglas County say nine good Samaritans and two firefighters rescued a man from his burning truck during a chain reaction crash on I-20 west of Atlanta.

At 2 p.m. today, Governor Nathan Deal signed into law Senate Bill 318, which will allow bars within Savannah city limits to serve alcohol on Sunday, March 16, between 12:30 p.m. and midnight.

Georgia House Bill 990 started out the week as what its sponsor called a "straightforward, one-paragraph proposal" that required legislative approval of any expansion of the Georgia Medicaid program.

The 123,000-square-foot grocery store is the first tenant in Gainesville's newest shopping center, New Holland Marketplace, which is off Jesse Jewell and Limestone parkways near Interstate 985.

Clyde Reese, Commissioner for the Georgia Department of Community Health, visited Hutcheson Medical Center today.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal is vowing to press on with deepening Savannah Harbor even if President Barack Obama's budget proposal for 2015 doesn't include construction funds for the project.

The highest officials in Georgia's Episcopal Diocese signed a letter on Tuesday urging the state legislature to abandon its push to allow guns in churches.