The US Senate has overwhelmingly approved a sweeping bipartisan housing bill that aims to make housing more affordable by curbing investors’ outsize influence in housing markets, boosting housing ...

Patrons watch sports programming at a bar. (Credit: Amit Lahav via Unsplash) The sports betting industry — which has spent years trying to legalize sports gambling in Georgia — has emerged as the top ...

The Nathan Deal Judicial Center is home to the Supreme Court of Georgia and the Georgia Court of Appeals. (Credit: Harrison Keely/ Creative Commons) Every voter in the midterm primary election will ...

All 15 Atlanta City Council seats are up for election in 2021. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to keep up with all things Housing and Democracy related in metro Atlanta. Sign up There are 12 ...

Here are the Democratic candidates running statewide and in key metro Atlanta races, plus a brief description of what each office does. Offices are listed in the order they will appear on your ballot.

From left to right: Fulton County Commission Chair candidates Mo Ivory, Robb Pitts, and Marvin Arrington Jr. address the Fulton Jail, housing, and election security at a candidate forum in Capitol ...

The Atlanta City Detention Center, background, looms over The Melody, a shipping-container community for formerly unhoused people. (Credit: Claire Becknell) As Atlanta prepared to host the 1996 ...

Unionized Starbucks baristas picket their Alpharetta store in November 2025 as part of national strike over stalled contract negotiations. Credit: Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon Starbucks will resume ...

Cover photo of Kirke and Lynn Kickingbird's 1987 book, Indians and the United States Constitution: A Forgotten Legacy. Photo courtesy of Kirke Kickenbird. More than 600 years before the United States ...

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens delivering his second inaugural address after being sworn in on Jan. 5, 2026. (Credit: Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon) Mayor Andre Dickens is dialing back his bid to extend the ...

The nation’s largest gathering of gun enthusiasts opened its annual convention Friday in Houston, three days and nearly 300 miles away from the Texas scene of one of the nation’s deadliest mass school ...

The firefighter union parked a historic firetruck with a sign that reads “Collective bargaining now” outside City Hall before an April 20 Atlanta City Council meeting. (Credit: Alessandro Marazzi ...