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More than 300,000 motorists travel through the interchange between Georgia 400 and I-285 every day, making it one of the most congested interchanges in metro Atlanta.

A group of metro Atlanta business community leaders are pledging $10.5 million to improve one of the state's busiest and most congested freeway interchanges.

Flowery Branch officials are estimating $1.4 million in expenses related to Sunday's historic rainfall, and so far it appears that most of the financial burden is falling on the beleaguered South Hall city.

Governor Nathan Deal signed House Bill 71, sponsored by Rep. Lynne Riley , which amends current law to allow the Georgia Municipal Employee Benefits System retirement fund to increase its investment allocation in real estate from 5 percent to 10 percent.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law an amended self-storage lien-law bill on May 6 that updates the state's lien-auction procedures.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has ordered that state-run lodges bring back Bibles they had just banned - the latest in a constitutional religion question that surfaced via a complaint from one atheist.

When Gov. Nathan Deal prompted the Georgia General Assembly to undertake sentencing reform for the adult criminal justice system , he acknowledged that he didn't expect to see any substantial changes for a few years.

Tea party groups and Georgia Republican leaders are gathered at the state Capitol on Tuesday to protest the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service.

Sheriff's officials in northwest Georgia say a 2-month-old baby has died after her mother accidentally pinned her to a wall.

Sheriff's officials in northwest Georgia say a 2-month-old baby has died after her mother accidentally pinned her to a wall.

Tea party activists waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting anti-IRS slogans held rallies outside federal buildings across the country Tuesday to protest the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups.

Tea party groups are planning a protest at the Georgia Capitol over the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service during the 2010 and 2012 elections.

Here are six recently proposed and enacted pieces of legislation impacting surgery centers and healthcare clinics.

An atheist group based in New Jersey said it plans to send the Georgia Department of Natural Resources enough popular atheist books to place one in every state park cabin in the state.

A national atheist group says it will place its literature in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks after the governor's recent decision to allow Bibles in them.

Groups supporting Georgia's expansion of Medicaid didn't fold their tents and wander off into the night when the General Assembly adjourned.

One of Georgia's negotiators in a tri-state water dispute also is president of a lobbying firm that has sought to commercially develop a technology billed as a partial solution to that feud, a situation that a top state official and others say could look like a conflict even though it is legal.

May 17, 2013 - ATLANTA -- Atlanta, Georgia, US, 17 May 2013 Danelle Harvey's east coast US tour will be wrapped up with festival performances before returning home.

An atheist, Buckner believes that no religious literature should be provided in government-owned lodging, and he presented that concern to management at the Amicalola Falls State Park.

Georgia legislators who want to sit in the president's suite above the hedges at Sanford Stadium next year will have to pay their own way, thanks to ethics legislation signed by Gov.