Georgia Government News

Back in July, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen warned that his fellow Democratsa health proposals would not only come with a trillion-dollar federal price tag.

Georgia's state-run psychiatric hospitals continue to have serious problems, and a recent Department of Justice visit to the largest facility - Central State Hospital in Milledgeville - led the hospital to stop taking new patients indefinitely.

There has been a change in lawyers in the state's appeal of a federal judge's ruling over access to water in Lake Lanier.

The date for a special election to fill the State Senate District 22 seat and the House District 122 seat has been set for January 5, 2010.

Figures released Thursday show Georgia taxpayers saved between $123 million and $140 million in the past fiscal year because of the state's own health-care reform of sorts.

Students at Dalton State College will pay an extra $50 fee starting in the spring semester to help cover funding cuts to the college.

Attorney General Thurbert Baker is getting some high-profile help in his bid to become Georgia's first black governor.

Water and sewer infrastructure projects in seven Georgia communities will receive help from $5.7 million in loans.

ATLANTA a ' Georgia's top fire official is urging churches to bolster security after two metro Atlanta churches were set on fire.

Georgia Department of Human Resources, with whom North Georgia Community Action Inc.

Gov. Sonny Perdue sent some good economic news home to Georgia from the Dubai Airshow.

On December 2, at 11:00 a.m. a long awaited event will take place at the home site of Byron Herbert Reece, Georgia's Appalachian Poet/Novelist as designated by the Georgia General Assembly.

Two aerospace companies plan to add jobs in Georgia, Gov. Sonny Perdue said Monday at the Dubai Air Show.

House Speaker Glenn Richardson took sleeping pills in a failed attempt to kill himself and then called his mother to tell her he loved her, according to a recording of the 911 call released on Monday.

Water is a finite resource. It is critical to our environment, our quality of life and our economic success.

Governor Sonny Perdue announced from the Dubai Airshow November 16th that Wamar International, Inc., will expand its Georgia operations, creating 100 jobs over the next three years and 300 jobs over the next 10 years.

A group of pre-K and kindergarten students at DeKalb County's Pleasantdale Elementary School recently had the opportunity to meet someone who loves reading just as much as them.

Conflicting state laws that regulate property taxes are costing McIntosh County dearly, Chief Appraiser John Barnes told the County Commission last week.

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In just six weeks, more than $82 million has reached survivors of the Georgia floods to help them in their recovery, according to federal officials.