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A group that supports gun control filed suit Thursday against a north Georgia town that recently passed a law requiring gun ownership that it said is mostly symbolic.

Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.

Georgia Emergency Medical Services has announced the winner of its EMS Educator of the Year award, and the recipient is a local.

Department of Natural Resources officials say Georgia was one of 14 recipients of a grant to help promote National Safe Boating Week.

Starting this fall, students who want focused training in the field of environmental engineering technology will no longer have to go outside of Georgia for that training.

An attempt to hold a march against homophobia in the Georgian Tbilisi ended in rioting as hostile protesters attacked participants and police lines crumbled.

The Augusta Chronicle reports that the Richmond County deputy was off-duty when he was hurt Thursday afternoon in Columbia County.

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"Lies straight from the pit of hell," "War of Yankee Aggression," and nine other quotes from actual politicians seeking statewide office in the 21st century.

Republican senators from South Carolina and Georgia have called on the Obama administration to continue funding a program to turn weapons-grade plutonium into commercial nuclear reactor fuel, saying that slowing or ending the project would harm international and domestic relationships.

Georgia legislators who want to sit in the president's suite above the hedges at Sanford Stadium next year will have to pay their own way, thanks to ethics legislation signed by Gov.

If you stay in a cabin or lodge room at a Georgia state park, you can take in the native flora and fauna outside.

The pace of job creation began to pick up steam in April, with Georgia’s unemployment rate slipping to 8.2 percent, down from 8.4 percent in March.

Powder Springs resident Tom Maloy, who serves on the board of the Marietta-based Georgia Tea Party, said his group was among the conservative organizations targeted by the Internal Revenue Service.

For the first time in recent memory, four congressional seats in Georgia are open at the same time, providing ample opportunity for the Peach State's farm team of up-and-coming state legislators to unleash their ambitions.

A 29-year-old Georgia man was arrested Wednesday on a Pierce County warrant charging him with killing a man outside a Sumner motel in December, police said.

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. - The Georgia Department of Transportation will scale back its construction projects across Northwest Georgia - suspending construction-related lane closures on all interstate and major state system highways to ease Memorial Day weekend traffic congestion.

Georgia officials will lead a project testing whether water stored underground can be used to supplement drought-stricken waterways after the local agency managing the project pulled out, state officials said Wednesday.

Governor Nathan Deal says the state will return Bibles to guest cabins and lodge rooms at Georgia parks following their recent removal by Georgia Department of Natural Resources managers, MyFoxAtlanta.com reports .

The number of hospitals willing to hire and instruct medical residents is growing, putting the state on the way to meeting its goal of 400 new positions, a Board of Regents committee learned Tuesday.