ATLANTA — The federal government has told Georgia it will soon release the rest of the education funding it had held back from public K-12 schools. The Georgia Department of Education said Friday that ...

ATLANTA — Thousands of Georgians will soon be spending money from the state’s new subsidy for private K-12 education, as the first quarterly payouts appear in “promise scholarship” accounts.

ATLANTA – Columbus-based Synovus Financial Corp. and Pinnacle Financial Partners, headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., have announced a planned merger, an $8.6 billion deal that will create the ...

John King, one of the two Republicans who declared his candidacy to unseat Democratic incumbent John Ossoff next year, has suspended his campaign. “Right now it’s clear there’s little path forward to ...

Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, who chairs the budget-writing Senate Appropriations Committee, announced plans Thursday for a series of hearings a newly created committee will hold later this summer ...

ATLANTA – A leading food company will build a plant to produce prepared foods in Northwest Georgia, a $400 million investment expected to create more than 630 jobs when at full capacity, Gov. Brian ...

“Georgia’s growing population means a greater demand for health care,” university system Chancellor Sonny Perdue said. “This partnership helps meet it by preparing more nurses, especially in rural and ...

The administration of President Donald Trump was expected to release funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program July 1 but withheld it until this week. State School Superintendent ...

ATLANTA — A two-year-old Georgia law requiring teachers to use the “science of reading” in their lessons has led to literacy gains in the state’s lowest performing schools, the Georgia Department of ...

ATLANTA – Cuts to Medicaid contained in President Donald Trump’s new budget bill put 37 Georgia nursing homes at risk of closing, according to a study released by Brown University’s School of Public ...

ATLANTA – Atlanta businessman and Air Force veteran Kelvin King has entered the race for Georgia secretary of state. King, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate three ...

A special committee of the state House of Representatives is studying the issue ahead of next year’s legislative session with the goal of producing laws that can reverse the trend. The first ...