Colin Powell, former U.S. secretary of state under President George W. Bush, died Monday morning from COVID-19 complications, his family wrote…
ATLANTA — The better part of Georgia’s political royalty broke bread Monday to celebrate the life and career of Johnny Isakson, the former U.S…
Americans ages 65 and older should get booster shots, a panel of experts advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a una…
Donald Trump Jr. and state Sen. Burt Jones, R-Jackson, a candidate for lieutenant governor, will campaign at the Strand Theatre this week.
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp signed a letter on Monday with 25 other Republican governors requesting a meeting with President Joe Biden in the ne…
WASHINGTON – The day after the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States issued a warning to the Taliban: No government that provides a haven for te…
President Joe Biden Thursday evening unveiled a six-point plan to combat the coronavirus, a plan that includes a vaccination mandate for every…
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday described the evacuation from Afghanistan as an “extraordinary success” even though dozens of Amer…
MARIETTA — In the wake of recent attacks at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, that left 13 U.S. service members dead and many more wounded, C…
MARIETTA — Gov. Brian Kemp opened a news conference at Lockheed Martin on Thursday asking those in attendance to pray for U.S. servicemembers …
SMYRNA – In a tour of Cobb County’s military and research complex at Dobbins Air Reserve Base on Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Georg…
Former President Donald Trump told a radio show Tuesday that former University of Georgia great Herschel Walker will run for the U.S. Senate s…
ATLANTA — The landscape of college sports in Georgia is about to change forever.
ATLANTA – The Justice Department sued the state of Georgia Friday over passage of an election reform law it claims violates the 1965 Voting Ri…
WEST COBB — Before leaving Nashville, Trisha Browning searched online for fun things to do during her weekend visiting family in Cobb County.
A man responsible for three armed robberies in Georgia, including one in Acworth on Sept. 2, has been arrested, according to Acworth police.
A federal judge has denied the Southern Poverty Law Center’s request for an emergency order requiring the Cobb County School District to imple…
Faced with too-few substitute teachers, Cobb County School District offered them a temporary raise. It worked like a charm, district officials…
Cobb residents whose homes were damaged during flooding last month will be able to apply for federal loans, after the U.S. Small Business Admi…
This week, the Marietta City Council unanimously approved a rezoning and annexation that paves the way for a 40-home development to be built a…
Cobb County recorded four COVID-19 deaths Friday. The death rate in the county has fallen to 2.4 deaths per day, about half the rate seen a we…
Students and volunteers of all ages enjoyed a couple hours of lighthearted recreation Thursday as Marietta City Schools held its first-ever Ad…
MARIETTA — The train crossing at Whitlock Avenue re-opened just before 4 p.m. Friday, having closed for a couple hours after a car was hit by …
The five candidates running for Kennesaw’s three open council seats this November haven’t filed any campaign finance reports, electing instead…
The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday denied a bid by Georgia and 17 other Republican-led states to overturn the Affordable Care Act.
MARIETTA — As 13-year-old Kennedy Coleman stood in line to receive her first COVID-19 vaccine at Marietta High School on Thursday morning, she…
Thirteen Cobb students were named as college-sponsored National Merit Scholars this week and will receive between $500 and $2,000 annually fro…
MARIETTA — Between bites of lamb chops and chicken pot pie, former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler and a small group of Cobb County Republicans mulle…
President Joe Biden passed through Dobbins Air Reserve Base on Thursday as he concluded a trip to metro Atlanta, where he highlighted Georgia’…
President Joe Biden plans to visit Atlanta next Thursday, marking his 100th day in office.
MINNEAPOLIS — Jurors convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Tuesday of all the counts filed against him — second-degree …
Georgia’s controversial new voting laws took center stage April 20 at a U.S. Senate hearing where majority Democrats blasted changes in state …
Georgia has paused distribution of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine as part of a nationwide halt after reports of blot c…
CUMBERLAND — If Gov. Brian Kemp is still fuming over the MLB’s decision to pull the 2021 All-Star Game from Cobb County, it hardly showed at h…
When Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star Game from Georgia to protest the state’s overhaul of its election laws, talking heads wondered:…
After several mass shootings on his watch, President Biden has announced his administration’s first steps toward greater gun regulation, decla…
ATLANTA — President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan would provide an overdue fix to deteriorating highways while ramping up inve…
For the second year in a row, the IRS has extended the tax deadline due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Treasury Department and the Internal……
