City crews cleared tents, medicine and IDs from people at Freedom Park ahead of World Cup gatherings, leaving residents scrambling to replace essentials.

Serena Williams will headline Invest Fest Aug. 7–9 at the Georgia World Congress Center, joining business panels, pitch competitions and a stacked cultural lineup. The booking marks the festival’s first female headliner and a high-profile moment for Atlanta’s summer events calendar.

Neighbors in northwest Atlanta are fighting a developer plan to convert their last full-service grocery into a storage facility. The dispute highlights food-access gaps in Kerry Park, Almond Park and Collier Heights.

Georgia’s new Safe at Home program gives eligible survivors a substitute mailing address, mail forwarding and sealed voter records as the initiative goes live. It aims to keep home addresses out of public state and local files.

Shoppers flooded Atlanta Harvest after someone carved a racial slur into a watermelon, turning a hateful act into a surge of neighborhood support.

Advocacy groups say Serverfarm and VoltaGrid installed dozens of generators in Covington without final air permits and have asked EPD to halt construction while regulators review the filings. The companies say they have consulted authorities.

Georgia requires in-person fireworks purchases, limits hours and locations, and counties can now bar fireworks within 200 yards of horse farms.

An alumni trust won a $499,950 EPA brownfields grant to remove asbestos, lead and PCBs from the former Henderson School. The cleanup clears a path to repurpose the 20‑acre campus into a community center and garden.

A Georgia Tech analysis finds Children's Healthcare of Atlanta produces about $6 billion in annual economic activity and is planning expansions to meet growing pediatric demand.

Fresh FTC records and an independent analysis show Atlanta logged more debt‑collection complaints in 2025 than any other major U.S. metro. Here’s what locals should know — and how to report abusive calls.

A fallen tree snapped a transmission line on Collinsworth Road, leaving most of Palmetto without power; cooling sites opened and crews are on-scene repairing damage.

Life University is cutting more than 30 jobs, including 14 faculty, and ending its 401(k) match as it works to close a projected $5 million budget gap.

Local nonprofit Soccer in the Streets will provide 150 young player escorts at each of Atlanta’s eight World Cup matches, linking Station Soccer fields and MARTA access to the global stage. The move highlights how transit‑side pitches can feed big events and opportunity to neighborhood kids.