georgia

A mining company’s plan to dig outside the federal wildlife refuge in the Okefenokee Swamp is taking a big step forward because of the Trump administration’s rollback of environmental rules

With the election just two weeks away, the historically red state of Georgia is starting to look purple. According to recent polls, Biden has a shot to become the first Democrat to win the state since Bill Clinton in 1992. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain went to the moderate Georgia town of Rome to talk to early voters about the issues...

Black people are going to the polls by the thousands and waiting in lines for hours to vote early in Georgia

The chance to cast ballots on the first day of in-person early voting in Georgia has thousands of people waiting for hours outside polling places

Federal authorities say nearly 40 missing or endangered children have been rescued by federal and state agents in Georgia.

An Atlanta-area mother who attempted to shoot and fight off kidnappers was reunited with her child Saturday after the baby was found unharmed, authorities said.

Callie Evans and Audri Williams, teachers at Monroe Comprehensive High School in Albany, Georgia, made a video to excite students about virtual learning.

A man driving a rental truck that collided with a school bus in Georgia helped free trapped students before he collapsed and died.

Lisa Morgan, president of the Georgia Association of Educators, talks about the risks of bringing kids back to school prematurely as cases of coronavirus in her school district continues to climb.

A suburban Atlanta park that’s home to a massive carving of Confederate leaders says it will close its gates Saturday in the face of a planned right-wing rally

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he’s dropping a lawsuit against the city of Atlanta in a dispute over the city’s requirement to wear masks in public and other restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic

Marjorie Taylor Greene has won the Republican nomination for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District

Georgia State Sen. Ben Watson joined LX News to discuss the surge in coronavirus cases in his state. The Republican lawmaker said he thinks in-person learning for children is crucial after a viral photo of a school’s crowded hallways sparked criticism about reopenings.

The Georgia high school captured in viral images last week that showed hallways packed with students will temporarily close after nine people at the school tested positive for COVID-19, the district’s superintendent said in a letter Sunday.

John Lewis is lying in repose at the Georgia Capitol in the Atlanta district he represented for more than three decades in Congress

Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia has taken down a digital campaign ad featuring a manipulated picture of his Democratic opponent Jon Ossoff, who is Jewish, with an enlarged nose

Georgia Democrats have selected state Sen. Nikema Williams, chair of the state party, to replace Rep. John Lewis on the ballot in November.

Savannah Mayor Van Johnson slams Georgia Gov. Kemp for his mandate banning a face mask policy as he urges him to “follow the science.”

John Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, has died

John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis’ passing late Friday night, calling him “one of the greatest heroes of American history.”…