Atlanta GA

The infected person can leave the room. The measles virus can remain behind. That danger now frames a growing outbreak associated with a daycare setting in metro Atlanta. The Georgia Department of Public Health confirmed Tuesday four additional cases among close contacts of a measles case confirmed last week. The...

A 997-unit apartment community in Stone Mountain has changed hands for $70.7 million, with the new owner moving in to overhaul management before the ink was even dry on the deal. East Ponce Village, a sprawling 100-acre complex about 20 miles east of Atlanta, was purchased by Palm Beach Gardens, Florida-based Home Inve

Five Black women district attorneys in metro Atlanta are challenging a Georgia law that makes their elections nonpartisan, arguing it unfairly targets their counties and violates state and federal constitutional protections.

Two people were arrested after they were accused of keeping four children confined to a tractor-trailer for six years. Keisha Epps, 51, and Tamra Stewart, 37, both of Atlanta, face multiple charges including child neglect and molestation. Investigators say two boys and two girls were held in the cab of...

ROSWELL, Ga. - Massive black smoke could be seen billowing from a Roswell-area apartment building bordering State Route 400 on Tuesday. The fire happened at the Aspen Point Apartments located on Crique Way, just north of Holcomb Bridge Road. SKYFOX 5 flew over the scene shortly after 4:45 p.m. to...

A six-bedroom house on a golf course in Roswell, Ga., is not where most people would expect to find a so-called “halfway house.”. Lush landscaping along tree-lined suburban streets keeps private the pools and parking lots behind $600,000 homes like the one where Izzy Lawter lives to get peer support for her sobriety.

Customers along one Smyrna, Georgia mail route started noticing something wasn’t right long before federal investigators showed up. Checks were going missing, and complaints piled up until the U.S. Postal Service’s own watchdog agency started watching the route itself. What they found was a mail carrier who had been qu

One of the nation's largest wholesale alcohol distributors is closing its Georgia operations and eliminating more than 550 jobs as it winds down under bankruptcy protection.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Fulton County’s latest offer to purchase the Atlanta City Detention Center has expired after the county and city failed to reach a deal by a Monday afternoon deadline. Atlanta leaders have now sent a counteroffer. In an Aug. 10 letter to Atlanta...

I gave myself one rule this year. Find the best steak in the state without relying on a single list online. That meant asking bartenders, waiters, and strangers in grocery store lines who all had strong opinions. Some names kept repeating themselves, again and again, until I had a real list worth testing.