South Fulton is offering up to $25,000 in no-repay grants to seniors for home repairs; applications close July 31 and early pop-up sessions drew long lines.

Three former Black employees allege Life University discriminated and retaliated against them during their time on the Marietta campus. The university says it will defend the claims.

A Georgia Lottery ticket matched five white balls with a 4x multiplier to produce a $4 million prize. The Mega Millions jackpot rolls higher for Friday.

Glynn County Schools will require K–12 students to keep phones powered off and out of sight from arrival to dismissal starting this August. The rule comes with stepped discipline and exemptions for medical needs.

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.