Georgia beaches recorded a record 4,292 loggerhead sea turtle nests this season, rebounding from a low in 2004.

Georgia officials extended the annual wild oyster harvest closure beyond its usual September 30 end date due to unusually warm ocean temperatures.

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ATLANTA — Attentive Georgia voters will notice something different when they go to their polling places on Election Day: pen and paper. Poll workers will log each voter in electronically, but they ...

A proposal requiring Georgia poll workers to manually shuffle ballots to preserve voter secrecy failed to advance during a special meeting of the State Election Board on Thursday.

Georgia laws require independent candidates for non-statewide offices to collect signatures from five percent of voters.

Georgia's Promise Scholarship program saw participation increase to approximately 13,500 students for the 2026-2027 school ...

Editor’s note: This article was updated at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 28, 2026 to include a response from McIntosh County. Less than a month after the McIntosh County Commission approved new zoning for the ...

Jim Kingston, a candidate for Georgia’s 1st Congressional District, speaks at a campaign event in Brunswick on Sept. 29, 2026. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight/Report for America As ...