People tour a home at Beacon Point at New Hampstead near Savannah on Aug. 1, 2026. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

Savannah sprawl: Housing construction spreads like wildfire on Georgia coast

Supply pipeline is now keeping pace with demand in a metro area in need of 41,000 new units between 2024 and 2030.

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Georgia Power deal to serve $20B OpenAI data center goes under the microscope

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Emory University students make a life-changing discovery in Utah

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At Georgia Square Mall, back to square one after major redevelopment fizzles

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Politics

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Communism, Shariah and executions: Georgia GOP push politics of the past.

The party says it can energize MAGA voters by focusing on tried-and-true issues while also appealing to the middle. Some Republicans fear that balance is getting harder.

A Jan. 6 exchange gives Jon Ossoff a new line of attack on Mike Collins

Georgia Democrats talk property taxes as they eye a possible House takeover

Georgia judge gives up federal bench seat for state service

AJC Investigation

John E. Jones was the leader of the local NAACP during a federal lawsuit that toppled Fayette County's at-large voting system. The suit helped increase Black political voting power in the county. Now Jones worries that those gains could be at risk of eroding. (Abbey Cutrer/AJC)

A voting rights suit transformed Fayette County. Could it now slide back?

A recent Supreme Court decision raises fresh questions about the county’s political future and whether recent gains by Black voters will hold.

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AJC Sports

Olson’s three-run shot lifts Braves to win over Diamondbacks

WNBA

Short-handed Dream suffer heartbreak in overtime loss to Fever

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AJC VARSITY

Reclassification reset GHSA’s 57 regions. Here are the 10 best.

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How top-10 teams fared in GHSA football opening week

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Home at last, Atlanta United finally has reason to celebrate

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Chadwick not a fan of heat rules or Beatles, but extols brothers, Dan Fogelberg

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Tiffany Haddish pleads guilty to DUI, avoiding Fayette County trial

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Food and Dining

Justin Brown, aka the Real Food Stalker, has an all-day itinerary for an outing just north of Atlanta that includes breakfast at Buttermilk Kitchen (left), lunch and crafting at ScentTok Craft Cafe (center) and dinner and gaming at Battle & Brew (right). (Justin Brown for the AJC)

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Curiosities of the South

Residents mapped nearly 500 cameras in one Atlanta neighborhood

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Latest Headlines

At Georgia Square Mall, back to square one after major redevelopment fizzles

Welding school leader seeks more women in trades as modern Rosie the Riveters

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Jon Ossoff wants more than a win against Mike Collins

Georgia and Metro News

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Head of Georgia firm accused in massive Ponzi scheme gets 20 years in prison

Drive Planning founder and CEO Todd Burkhalter defrauded over 2,000 investors out of around $380 million, federal prosecutors say.

2 beluga whales settling in at Georgia Aquarium after trip from Canada

Why Georgia’s birds are disappearing and what can be done

Mom charged in son’s hot car death allowed to leave jail for funeral, Gwinnett judge ordered

ICYMI

Thousands of Georgians heading back to offices Monday, but many aren’t

Atlanta’s Equifax to pay $100M after miscalculating credit scores

Lawyers say the settlement is the largest ever achieved under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

ICE agents patrol at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

ICE presence at Atlanta airport yields immigration arrests — and a false alarm

A Venezuelan asylum-seeker and a U.S. citizen confused for a British immigrant were recently apprehended at the airport.

After more than 60 years, a Buckhead pharmacy is evolving

Wender & Roberts will relocate and shrink in a popular shopping center along tony West Paces Ferry Road.

Opinion and Voices

OPINION

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Mike Luckovich: Runnin’ on empty

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GUEST COLUMN

Black Atlanta must decide its own political future before someone else does

The rise of democratic socialism in the metro area is a result of constituents who do not feel heard by established leaders.

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Electric vehicles: An abrupt end or a new beginning?

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Don’t let extinction become a reality. How Georgians can protect right whales.

North Atlantic right whales are endangered sea-dwelling giants that often rest in the waters of Georgia, but sea-vessel strikes pose a threat to their survival.

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