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Ice storm warning

Georgia ice storm: Road conditions, warnings and closures live updates

A menacing storm is bearing down on North Georgia. In metro Atlanta, an ice storm warning went into effect at 1 p.m. Saturday.

Bitter cold will test Georgia’s power grid. Utilities say they’re ready.

Bitter cold will test Georgia’s power grid. Utilities say they’re ready.

Georgia's electric utilities will face a second test of their power grid this week as freezing temperatures could strain power plants and grid infrastructure.

Pedestrians brave the weather near Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, as a major winter storm drenched Georgia with freezing rain, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses across the state, slickening roads and keeping hundreds of flights in and out of Atlanta grounded. (Miguel Martinez/AJC)

Georgia steels itself for more challenges this week amid winter storm

The National Weather Service warns of more power outages and ‘impossible travel,' with dangerous cold possibly lasting until Thursday.

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Snow increasingly likely for Georgia, parts of metro Atlanta this weekend

Another arctic blast is on the way that will keep conditions frigid over metro Atlanta and could even bring a small chance for snow to the Peach State.

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Bird flu detected in another Georgia poultry facility, the third case this month

Bird flu detected in another Georgia poultry facility, third case this month

Another Georgia commercial poultry flock has tested positive for bird flu, the third such case in less than a month in the state, agriculture officials said.

ICE Protest in Atlanta

ICE opens new satellite field office in College Park

The College Park office will likely play a supporting role to ICE’s existing Atlanta field office, located downtown on Ted Turner Drive.

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Cobb police shoot woman who pointed gun at officer outside HQ, GBI says

The GBI has been asked to investigate the incident, which left a 26-year-old Marietta woman in critical condition.

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Georgia man accused of shooting at utility workers restoring power from storm

Suspect faces five charges, including aggravated assault, Rabun County sheriff says.

unidentified woman

She died in a Fulton hospital in November 2024. But no one knows her name.

A woman who died at a Fulton County hospital in 2024 remains unidentified, and Roswell police are asking for the public's help.

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Workers who answered the phone Tuesday at Irwin County Hospital, seen here in a file photo from 2020, said the water has been turned back on. (Aileen Perilla/The New York Times)

City shuts off rural Georgia hospital’s water for nonpayment, locals say

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AJC INTERVIEW

Georgia Tech professor headed to the Grammys for Black poetry-inspired works

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Herschel Bloom, prominent Atlanta attorney, dead at 82

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Georgia man accused of shooting at utility workers restoring power from storm

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Lawsuit targets exemptions Trump granted to Georgia plants using toxic gas

HOME DEPOT HALLOWEEN

Home Depot to cut 800 corporate jobs, require workers back to office full time

unidentified woman

She died in a Fulton hospital in November 2024. But no one knows her name.

World Cup draw party TKTKT

Atlanta has to consider World Cup security risks. Does that list include ICE?

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CMA Award winners among headliners for inaugural Atlanta Braves fest

Tree down over Ponce De Leon Ave

Ponce de Leon in Druid Hills reopens after large downed tree crushes car