1+ hour, 31+ min ago  (322+ words) A person of interest was taken into custody Tuesday in the death of a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier, officials said. Dequavious Graves, 31, was working a mail route in DeKalb County when he was fatally shot near his carrier vehicle in…...

3+ hour, 10+ min ago  (329+ words) Kroger plans a glow-up for one of its metro Atlanta stores. The grocer said Tuesday it will invest $23 million into its store at the Parkaire Landing shopping center in affluent East Cobb. The project will take three vacant storefronts and…...

5+ hour, 13+ min ago  (652+ words) A bill introduced under the Gold Dome would set back an ambitious proposal by Mayor Andre Dickens to put billions of dollars toward revitalizing Atlanta's underserved neighborhoods by extending the city's eight tax allocation districts. It's a new political hurdle…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (549+ words) Veteran Republican utility regulator Tricia Pridemore announced Tuesday she won't seek another term this fall, creating an open seat on the powerful Georgia Public Service Commission in an already tense year for Republicans. Pridemore's announcement comes just months after Democrats…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1482+ words) Georgia's criminal justice system looks significantly different than it did a decade ago, thanks in part to the record number of women of color now serving as district attorneys across the state. Metro Atlanta's top prosecutors say their shared experiences…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1022+ words) Advocates for Eastside Beltline light rail took turns blasting the MARTA Board of Directors at its meeting Thursday, berating the board for the transit agency's pace of project delivery and for the decision made by a small group of officials…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (565+ words) An area that was once a cluster of abandoned warehouses now acts as the center of gravity in Atlanta's fast-developing Upper Westside. And that was just the project's first phase " it's about to get even larger....

2+ week, 8+ hour ago  (469+ words) A senior executive at the Atlanta Housing Authority who oversaw one of the nation's largest Section 8 housing assistance programs has pleaded guilty to charges she pocketed tens of thousands of dollars for a family rental property. Tracy Denise Jones, a…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago  (1436+ words) All eight of Georgia's House Republicans voted for the funding bill. Among those celebrating its passage was U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, who was able to add in language he has long championed to place ......

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1398+ words) Wanda Sims Watters was among the first Black students who integrated Decatur City Schools in the 1960s. But in 1970, her family was forced out of the small city entirely. Decatur seized her family's house " and all the homes on their street…...