News for Metro Atlanta and Region

Sheriff Patrick Labat pointed to slowness reaching a "bleeding out" inmate and an officer stuck in a broken elevator with inmates to demonstrate the risks at Rice Street jail.

The Atlanta Board of Education will cast the deciding vote on Mayor Dickens’ idea to extend taxing districts, sacrificing revenue for revitalization. They are in no hurry.

Both Georgia gubernatorial candidates want to raise teacher pay and improve literacy rates if elected.

Georgia tends to rank in the middle on topics like academics, teacher pay and spending, but has made recent steps toward improvement.

A former Amazon contractor was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in federal prison for her involvement in a $10 million Atlanta-area scheme to defraud the company.

The overall settlement resolves claims by 48 states. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said Meta is the first "to come to the table but shouldn't be the last."

A gifted storyteller, Rev. Joanna Adams was magnetic in the pulpit. She was also devoted helping Atlanta's most vulnerable people, by founding shelters and nonprofits.

More than a year after nearly a dozen people were shot overnight in Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood, another suspect is behind bars.

One of Atlanta's oldest concert venues, the Tabernacle will now be called the Tabernacle presented by iThink Financial.

Country legend Dolly Parton, who died at 80, had several Georgia ties, including her Ringgold wedding to longtime husband Carl Dean.