"The theory is that if the bad actors know [municipalities can't pay], they won't waste time trying to force people to pay," Chairman Robb Pitts told 11Alive.

It’s been two weeks since the start of the 2025 Georgia General Assembly’s legislative session opened. Each part of Georgia has a wishlist of sorts for items they want help achieving with the assistance of state lawmakers. Fulton County has its own list of priorities, published after a meeting of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners.

A Georgia appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court's ruling that dismissed six of the charges brought in the 2020 Fulton County election interference case against Donald Trump and other co-defendants. Trial judge Scott McAfee last year dismissed the ...

A potentially precedent-setting legal battle aims to decide whether a railroad can use eminent domain in one of Georgia’s poorest counties to build a rail spur to serve private businesses.

Rodalius '"Lil Rod" Ryan and Damone Blalock were both sentenced to life in prison in connection to a 2019 murder.

A Georgia appeals court has upheld the dismissal of some of the charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in the Georgia 2020 election interference case.

Georgia senators voted to reinstate the investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Senators voted along party lines.

Republican Georgia Sen. Colton Moore arrested Jan. 16 while attempting to enter the House chambers to attend Gov. Kemp State of the State.

A Republican northwest Georgia senator was arrested Thursday after he refused to abide by a ban on entering the House chamber made by the speaker last year.

Several districts are closing or making adjustments for Thursday, Jan. 23, following winter weather this week.