Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who gained national prominence scrapping with President Donald Trump before joining President Joe Biden’s inner circle, entered the race for Georgia governor ...

Greg Bluestein is the Atlanta Journal Constitution's chief political reporter. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is turning up the pressure in Georgia’s elections standoff — and signaling a possible way around the ...

Editor’s note: This story has been changed to reflect the accurate bill number for legislation prohibiting transgender care for prisoners. An earlier version of the column had an incorrect bill number ...

The worried calls have come into Tom Houck one after another. Houck, the former Atlanta radio host and journalist, operates a popular civil rights tour of Atlanta, guiding students, professional ...

Kemp said his proposal, unveiled Thursday, is a way to rein in lawsuits he and supporters believe have gotten out of hand in recent years, resulting in massive jury payouts. In some rare cases, ...

The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously upheld a state law Wednesday that prohibits people under 21 years old from possessing or carrying handguns in public. The court’s ruling rejected an appeal by ...

Attorney General Chris Carr and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones are both running for governor, but only one can raise unlimited campaign cash. Attorney General Chris Carr has asked a federal judge to restrict Lt.

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests have spiked and bed space has dwindled at detention centers, the agency has turned to detaining immigrants for long stretches in the basement of its ...

Georgia’s taxes keep going down, but its budget surpluses keep piling up. The Peach State ended the fiscal year with a $1.3 billion surplus, according to preliminary numbers released Tuesday by the ...