Politics

Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron will keep his job following a vote by the Fulton County Commission Wednesday.

Republicans in the Georgia Senate are floating a constitutional amendment that could impact the Fulton County District Attorney's office investigation into former President Trump and Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Georgians won’t be deciding on the future of the state’s top executive for another 630 days, but it already seems the public fighting over who will be sitting in the governor’s chair come 2023 has begun to heat up. Former President Donald Trump weighed in through his Save America PAC on Tuesday.

A Republican-backed bill advancing in the Georgia House would block "defund the police" movements in cities and counties, after Atlanta and Athens debated plans to cut or redirect spending following racial injustice protests last year.

Georgia’s House of Representatives is trying again to give paid parental leave to state workers, teachers, and university employees.

Surrounded by Republicans and Democrats in the state Capitol rotunda, Governor Brian Kemp explained why he felt compelled to repeal the Civil War-era statute of the Citizens Arrest Statute used as a defense by the father and don duo charged with the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.

The Fulton County Election Board voted 3-2 Tuesday to fire Richard Barron after receiving criticism for its handling of the presidential and Senate runoff.

Former Sen. David Perdue has filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run again for the U.S. Senate in 2022.

A Gwinnett County commissioner is proposing a plan to decriminalize marijuana possession throughout the county.

Former University System of Georgia employees who lost their job during the pandemic are now weighing in as thousands of state employees are expected to get a pandemic-related bonus.

State Representative Sandra Scott introduced House Bill 9. It would authorize the state to develop guidelines specifically for mental and behavioral telehealth services for students in Georgia schools.

The Atlanta City Council overrode Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' veto of a proposal that would have let the state permanently close part of a street between the Georgia Capitol and a legislative office building.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed the Fiscal Year 2021 amended budget in a small ceremony at the state Capitol Monday afternoon.

Lawmakers in Georgia’s state House are considering legislation that would require hospitals and nursing homes to allow visitors, after many cut visitor access because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Georgia’s Democratic senators have released statements after the Senate failed to convict former president Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.