ATLANTA — One thing that Georgia’s House and Senate can agree on after finishing the first round of this year’s legislative session is that the state income tax rate should continue falling. Friday ...

The Republican majority’s surviving proposals include reducing Georgia’s income tax rate from 5.19% to 3.99% over time, along with a cap on annual property tax increases at 3% or the inflation rate.

The races for lieutenant governor are dominated by rivalries among state senators. Republicans running for Georgia’s No. 2 job include Sens. Gregory Dolezal, Blake Tillery, and Steve Gooch, along with ...

Sen. Greg Dolezal, R-Cumming, speaks in favor of a Senate Bill 568, which would have required voters to use hand-marked paper ballots in November’s elections on Friday, March 6, 2026. The bill fell ...

Lawrenceville, is the state’s youngest lawmaker. Whether he was organizing climate marches in high school or rechartering the Gwinnett Young Democrats, Ali has long been civically engaged. The driving ...

Georgia House Republicans pushed through a new proposal to address fast-rising property tax bills just ahead of the Friday deadline to move legislation between the House and Senate House Bill 1116 has ...

ATLANTA — Republicans in the Georgia Senate passed a bill Friday that bans candidates from raising more than half of their campaign money from outside of the state, a limitation that Democrats said ...

The 30-23 vote fell along party lines, with Republicans supporting the rights of Georgians to use force when needed during confrontations. The legislation, Senate Bill 572, would allow people to claim ...

ATLANTA — The Georgia House of Representatives rejected a proposal to nearly eliminate homeowner property taxes. The Republican-driven measure would have put a constitutional amendment to voters. To ...

At that hearing, Angela Flanigan, the executive director of the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said social media platforms had been linked to disrupted sleep, reduced academic ...

ATLANTA — The Georgia Senate adopted legislation Friday that would encourage judges to think of regular people when considering disputes about contracts between electric utilities and big customers ...