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Communities across the area honored Martin Luther King Jr. Day with parades, service projects, and outreach efforts aimed at strengthening neighborhoods and helping those in need.
The Fulton County Department of Community Development is calling for more volunteers to help count people experiencing homelessness later this month.
On Christmas Day, one of the NBA's biggest stars was honored not for basketball, but for his service to a North Georgia community.
Spirit and Truth Church says the effort will eliminate medical debt for more than 1,100 people across four metro Atlanta counties this Christmas season.
District officials say years of reform and community support helped six schools improve student outcomes.
A Georgia law creates a clearer process to determine intellectual disability before trial, strengthening long-sought protections in death penalty cases. Now, the state's interfaith leaders are recognizing the advocates who made it possible.
Congregation Or VeShalom welcomed families for its 49th Annual Hanukkah Bazaar, featuring Sephardic food, handmade gifts, children's activities and a celebration of Jewish heritage.
The annual CURE Childhood Cancer Holiday Party brought joy, crafts, treats and a visit from Santa to families navigating the challenges of childhood cancer.
New Birth Missionary Baptist Church partners with public-health groups to confront HIV stigma and expand access to testing for communities disproportionately impacted across metro Atlanta.
New federal labor data shows chefs are among the least likely professions to be replaced by AI, while Atlanta students are cooking through high-stakes final exams.
The Atlanta Board of Education unanimously approved a sweeping facilities overhaul that will close, merge, or repurpose 16 public schools across the district.
Just one year after becoming Georgia's newest city, Mulberry is wrestling with the same challenges facing much of metro Atlanta — overcrowded schools, worsening traffic, and a flood of new development that has many residents asking: How much growth is too much?
As Atlanta Public Schools prepares for a vote that could close or restructure 16 schools, neighbors near Scott Elementary say new development and shifting decisions by incoming families are reshaping who attends their local school.
Neighbors who relied on the Shallowford Exchange Publix say its closure will upend daily routines and add extra drive time, with the next closest store more than three miles away.
A metro Atlanta modeling group is redefining aging by teaching seniors to strut, build confidence, and reclaim joy one runway walk at a time.
Rapper T.I. returned to Adamsville to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his annual food giveaway.
After losing their wives to cancer, two fathers found healing in friendship and launched a podcast to help others facing loss.
A packed and heated zoning meeting over data center rules in DeKalb County ended with police escorting residents out as concerns over noise, pollution, health, and rising energy and water costs fueled public outcry.
Atlanta attorney and Marine veteran Scott Pryor spends his days fighting for injured families in the courtroom - and his nights on stage using music to help others heal after the tragic loss of his son.
Residents in south and east DeKalb say a proposed zoning change could open the door to large-scale data campuses near homes, threatening water supplies, infrastructure, and quality of life.
More than 30 artists lost equipment, artwork, and their creative home after a massive fire tore through the South River Art Studio.
Residents at a Buckhead senior living complex say deafening classical music blasted nonstop for three days from a closed Kroger parking lot, a tactic they believe was used to keep people from gathering outside the shuttered store.
Gwinnett County Justice Administration Center celebrates National Adoption Day early, welcoming dozens of forever families.
TSA officers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport lined up this week for free car washes and gas cards, thanks to a partnership between Caliber Car Wash and Caleb Harmon-Marshall.
Metro Atlanta families are putting the finishing touches on costumes and making plans to keep their trick-or-treaters safe.
Students across metro Atlanta are set to join a nationwide walkout in solidarity with protests against the ongoing immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
Black landowners from a Georgia island community founded by freed slaves are fighting their latest property dispute with local officials at the ballot box.
An internal investigation by the Rockdale County Sheriff's Office has determined that policy violations by a deputy led to the escape of inmate Timothy Shane from Grady Memorial Hospital last December.
Firefighters raced into action late Monday night after smoke began filling apartments at a Gwinnett County complex, rescuing residents trapped on upper floors as flames spread through a lower-level unit.
Though Martin Luther King Jr. and Jimmy Carter never met, the former president's enduring support — and the deep ties between their families — helped transform King's legacy into a national holiday.