The Georgia Environmental Protection Division hit the City of Atlanta with an almost $300,000 fine for sewage overflows at its R.M. Clayton Water Reclamation Facility. Inspection by both the EPD […]
A day after Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones stood with President Donald Trump in Washington as he signed an executive order intended to prevent transgender athletes from competing in women’s […]
Latino advocates in Georgia are calling on their state lawmakers to create equal opportunities for the people of their community. The Latino Community Fund of Georgia, GALEO, partner organizations and […]
Atlanta is home to a variety of significant historical landmarks, events and cultural milestones that showcase the plight and triumph of the African American experience. Outside of well-known exhibitions such […]
A team of Georgia State University researchers have been working together to uncover the names and locations of where more than 5,000 enslaved persons and their enslavers lived in Harris […]
Scientists and public health leaders are taking stock of the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to pull down web pages, datasets and selected information from federal health websites. Some of the […]
Republicans in a Georgia Senate committee advanced a bill Wednesday that would force the city of Atlanta to allow the Fulton County sheriff to use the city jail for no […]
Atlanta’s Office of the Inspector General is accused of violating state law at least 50 times while issuing subpoenas to obtain city employees’ financial records during investigations. The City of […]
Manny Portillo is one of many people at the Georgia State Capitol today for Latino Day. Portillo, who moved to the U.S. when he was 4 months old, is a […]
Amid Trump’s massive deportation efforts, the Latin American Association (LAA) is working to help people who are living in Georgia without legal status. Santiago Marquez, who serves as CEO of […]
Malyndia Brown never imagined it would be so hard to preserve her family’s longtime home. She first moved back to the three-bedroom brick house in Southwest Atlanta’s Westview neighborhood about […]
From December through March every year, the waters off Georgia’s coast provide calving grounds for the estimated 70 remaining reproductively active female North American right whales, one of the world’s […]