The Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case related to the massive cloud of smoke that billowed for weeks from a fire at the BioLab chemical plant in Conyers in 2024.
The Georgia Board of Natural Resources has voted in favor of a plan to increase parking pass rates at state parks, and the Department of Natural Resources could be considering further cost hikes.
The state House backed a revised $40.5 billion spending plan for this year that sets aside hundreds of millions of dollars for hurricane relief and to close security gaps in the state’s prisons.
Special counsel Jack Smith, the prosecutor in the federal criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump, asked a D.C. federal judge on Friday to suspend deadlines in the election interference case that centered on Trump’s supporters’ Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
A Fulton County judge Wednesday struck down several controversial Georgia State Election Board rules that were set to take effect for the Nov. 5 general election.
The first day of early voting Tuesday has already set a new record for the first day of advanced voting, according to Georgia Secretary of State officials.
The number of confirmed deaths caused by the swath of destruction Hurricane Helene’s storm left in Georgia has risen to 33 people as and preliminary reports are up of $417 million in damages across the state.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating an explosion that destroyed much of the Georgia Guidestones, a quirky granite monument in Elberton near the South Carolina border.