Decatur GA

Last summer, DeKalb County officials announced there would be annual 10% rate increases for the next decade, and the first phase began in August.

A camera captured fireworks out of control, igniting flames in a neighbor’s yard right next to a Children’s Hospital clinic – one of several dangerous situations during New Year’s celebrations across metro Atlanta.

Clayton County leaders say collaboration between law enforcement agencies and targeted policing is making a measurable difference in public safety. New data from the Sheriff's Office shows the county ended 2025 with one of the lowest homicide rates in nearly a decade. Clayton County Sheriff Levon Allen says 30...

ATLANTA - Atlanta Police are investigating a shooting that left a rideshare driver injured early Friday morning in northeast Atlanta. According to preliminary information, officers responded around 1 a.m. Jan. 2 to reports of a person shot near 562 Boulevard NE. Investigators learned the male victim had already...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — It was a reunion decades in the making and nothing short of heartwarming. Seventy-one-year-old Calvin Cooper flew into Atlanta from Toledo to meet his son. A son he never knew existed. Thirty-three-year-old Tim Holloway, who lives in Atlanta, had uploaded his DNA to...

Pastor Corey Brooks from Chicago is leading a Walk Across America, a national movement rooted in faith, unity, hope, and community restoration. He began in Times Square in September of 2025 and has reached Atlanta.

SNELLVILLE, Ga. — For some small business owners in Gwinnett County, 2026 began with shattered glass, stolen cash and an expensive mess waiting behind locked doors. Thieves targeted three businesses inside a Snellville shopping center anchored by Publix along Centerville Rosebud Road early New Year’s Day, breaking...

A dispute inside a southeast Atlanta business turned fatal this Tuesday night, leaving a 26-year-old man dead from gunshot wounds. FOX5 Atlanta reports that the altercation began at a location on the 2400 block of Jonesboro Road SE, eventually spilling outside where the violence escalated. Atlanta Police responded to...

Tucked along N Druid Hills Rd in Decatur, Georgia, Mechanical Riverfront Kingdom feels like stumbling into a living steampunk storybook. Gears, rivets, and whimsy collide in an outdoor gallery that invites you to linger, listen, and look closer. You can almost hear the clink of tools and the whisper of river breezes...

A 15-year-old has been charged as an adult with murder after Lawrenceville police used Ring camera footage to track down the person who killed an Uber driver in an apparent carjacking.