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Haircuts, tattoos, and bowling matches will be back on the menu for people in Georgia following a new order lifting many of the coronavirus restrictions put in place.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday rolled out aggressive plans to reopen the state’s economy, saying many businesses shuttered to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus may reopen their doors as early …

During his latest coronavirus briefing, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp shared a list of businesses permitted to reopen starting April 24, with a second wave scheduled to resume operations three days …

Known coronavirus infections in Georgia are nearing 20,000 as the state moves closer to a scheduled end to a shelter-in-place mandate. The Georgia Department of Public Health is reporting 18,947 …

As President Trump begins to set out a roadmap for reopening the economy, Georgia is in some respects seeing signs of the curve flattening and the peak of the crisis extending out into early May as a …

At its plant on Georgia’s western edge, Kia Motors Manufacturing halted production last month, idling nearly all of its 2,400 workers. The Toyo Tire plant in Bartow County in North Georgia is closed.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is planning a news conference where he’s expected plans for reopening the state as health officials continue battling the spread of the coronavirus. Kemp, Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan …

Georgia DOT engineers have closed the Georgia 219/River Road bridge over Standing Boy Creek. This is just north of the Old River Road and Biggers Road intersections. The heavy rains that moved through …

Derrick Lee Hightower is charged in the shooting death of a Smiths Station woman and is a suspect in the killings of a couple in Dadeville and the slaying of a man in a Birmingham home invasion.