Metro Atlanta News

THE STEERING COLUMN

Do Atlanta drivers really need all-wheel drive?

AWD can add traction — and cost. Here’s when Atlanta drivers may benefit from it and when good tires matter more.

Data centers, factories bring billions to Georgia. New report asks who benefits.

Across six states in the Deep South — Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee — investment in data centers, factories and infrastructure is booming.

Atlanta jurors reach $164M verdict in federal sex trafficking trial

The former owner of a Super 8 hotel near Atlanta's airport must pay $164 million to a young woman who says she was sex trafficked there as a minor, a federal jury decided.

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Smyrna Police investigate homicide park valley apartments
UPDATE

Police find dismembered body at Smyrna apartments; teen charged

Norfolk Southern safety train
UPDATE

2 arrested after contractor killed outside Norfolk Southern facility in Cobb

Republic Lounge shooting

Atlanta ‘Most Wanted’ suspect tied to club owner’s death arrested in Florida

ICE Shooting Austin

Georgia migrant ‘pinned’ under ICE vehicle, GSP report says

New medical doctors receive their degrees from Morehouse School of Medicine in May. Unfortunately, a 2025 JAMA Internal Medicine study revealed Black physicians die at more than twice the rate of white doctors. (Ben Gray for the AJC)
GUEST COLUMN

The hidden toll on Black doctors: We are saving lives but losing our own.

Newsletter - AM ATL

A.M. ATL: On the move

Her+Story on Melanie Wolfe
AJC HER+STORY

Atlanta commercial real estate can be insular. Here’s how she broke in.

Judge Aaron Mason

Clayton Superior Court judge accidentally fires gun in restaurant, police say

Atlanta City Council, Fulton County discuss pending sale of detention center

‘We warehouse people’: Fulton sheriff makes case for buying Atlanta facility

Ethics trial Shermela Williams

Embattled ex-judge escapes punishment after resigning