An influence failure at a water remedy plant has led to a boil water advisory being issued for all residents and companies in downtown Atlanta and a few surrounding areas to the east. The metropolis’s Department of Watershed Management (DWM) mentioned it issued the advisory on Friday morning out of an abundance of warning and…
Georgia is beginning to difficulty a one-time tax refund to residents: $250 for single filers, $375 for heads of households and $500 for joint filers who filed their 2024 and 2025 taxes. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the tax rebatetotaling greater than $1 billion, in March through House Bill 1000. The state has issued comparable refunds…
A wildfire in South Georgia has grown to just about 9,000 acres and was simply 10% contained as of Tuesday morning, according to the Georgia Forestry Commission. The Pinelands Road fireplace was one among 52 that began in simply two days, April 18 and 19, as most of Georgia experiences drought situations. Rainfall and water…
The Georgia Senate handed a measure Tuesday that would cut back house owner property taxes by creating a brand new sales tax in alternate. House Bill 1116 got here from the House as a cap on property tax valuation will increase. The Senate’s amended model would create new particular taxing districts overlayed on county strains,…
The Georgia Senate on Thursday handed a invoice to droop the state’s motor gasoline tax for 60 days amid skyrocketing gas prices because the launch of the Iran conflict. House Bill 1199 The Senate handed overwhelmingly with a vote of 51-0. The transfer comes a day after the House voted 163-4 in favor of the…
Filmmaker and producer Will Packer says he is hopeful that Atlanta will rise once more as a premier film hub. Currently, 26 motion pictures and TV exhibits are filming in Georgia, in line with state information, with episodic productions accounting for a lot of the exercise. Packer moved to Atlanta about 30 years in the…
Filmmaker and producer Will Packer says he is hopeful that Atlanta will rise once more as a premier film hub. Currently, 26 motion pictures and TV exhibits are filming in Georgia, based on state information, with episodic productions accounting for many of the exercise. Packer moved to Atlanta about 30 years in the past to…
Chamian Cruz | WABE February sixteenth, 2026 Up to date February 16, 2026,6:49 PM EST In opening statements on Monday, prosecutors made the case that the Georgia man whose teenage son is accused of finishing up the deadliest faculty taking pictures within the state’s historical past greater than a 12 months in the past can…
Georgia state introduced legislation aimed at improving early literacy by funding one full-time literacy coach for every school offering kindergarten through third grade. Only around 30% of Georgia’s fourth graders were reading proficiently or better in 2024, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress standards and data. House Bill 1193 and Senate Bill 459,…
