State lawmakers are considering new food safety rules in Georgia, where a peanut plant has been linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people nationwide. The Senate Agriculture Committee is to consider a bill Monday that would …
The banks of Georgia’s Lake Lanier look about the same as last year: Closed boat ramps, parched soil and lonely islands peeking above the surface that should be covered by a dozen feet of water. Epic drought forced officials across …
The National Transportation Safety Board released final recommendations urging more clear and consistent highway signs in the wake of a March 2007 bus crash in Atlanta that killed five athletes from Ohio’s Bluffton University. The recommendations were approved in a …
Specialists arrived in Port Wentworth, Ga., Tuesday to help extinguish a five-day-old sugar-refinery fire burning too intensely and deeply for standard firefighting to douse, and officials feared the deadly blaze could once again trigger explosions. Thick masses of molten sugar …
The town of Talmo, Ga., boasts a post office, a volunteer fire department, a few cattle farms, two Coke machines and 500 residents who grew up “on beans and cornbread,” locals like to say. But they have been holding their …
The Georgia House Judiciary Committee gave the green light last week to a measure that would overhaul the way insurance companies pay for accidents involving underinsured drivers, despite warnings from Georgia’s top insurance official that it could hike insurance premiums …
House Republicans introduced a measure that requires Georgia’s top insurance official to sign off on each medical malpractice rate hike, saying they’re unconvinced that new state laws aimed at suppressing medical malpractice are working. The proposal would require Georgia’s Insurance …
Georgia state Rep. Ed Setzler says he’s seen a glimpse into the future — and he doesn’t like all he sees. The Acworth Republican has introduced a bill aimed at outlawing genetic profiling in Georgia by banning businesses, government agencies …
