The punishment would only be a last resort. Schools would have to first identify students at risk of missing too many days, then they would have to craft attendance intervention plans with the student ...

To overcome an impasse after the state House and state Senate took money from each other’s priorities — and from Gov. Brian Kemp’s — to pay for their own projects, Kemp dug up an extra $1.4 billion in ...

Senate Bill 456 would have allowed brewers to sell up to 500 barrels of beer annually within county lines and increased the limit on to-go orders from one case of beer to three. When state Sen. John ...

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp is halfway to getting his income tax rate cut approved by the Legislature after the state House passed it in a mostly party-line vote Wednesday. “It’s not the government’s ...

HB 1076 would make it a felony punishable by one to five years in prison and a $100,000 fine for anyone using a vehicle who “knowingly obstructs, hinders, blocks, or otherwise interferes” with ...

Body cam videos of police shootings or alleged police misconduct are already kept confidential in Georgia while investigations are underway. Those videos only become a public record after ...

Public Service Commission Chair Jason Shaw told senators that consumers are being protected by an agreement last year that freezes Georgia Power’s electricity rates for the next three years. He said ...

ATLANTA — Taxpayers, rural drivers and the mentally ill were among the winners in the mid-year budget adopted by the Georgia ...

ATLANTA — State Rep. Lynn Smith, one of the longest-serving representatives in the Georgia House, plans to retire after 30 years focused on environmental issues. Smith, R-Newnan, is the chair of the ...

ATLANTA — Lt. Gov. Burt Jones can no longer raise millions of dollars for his gubernatorial campaign through a special fundraising committee, a setback in his race for the Republican nomination. A ...