Lawrenceville GA

For Jobina Fortson-Evans, joining CBS Atlanta’s newsroom felt less like a career move and more like a homecoming to the city that first ignited her passion for storytelling. As a child, Fortson-Evans loved interviewing people with her camcorder. Years later, she joined the Tucker High School newspaper, which sparked...

Wildlife inspectors with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seized five elephant ivory carvings at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The illegal carvings were found in a package imported from Austria, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. The shipment violated several regulations, including not...

Local governments in the Atlanta area are legislating against corporate landlords as part of a growing call to regulate real estate investment that critics say drive up the cost of housing for everyday buyers and renters. As Michael Sasso and Kriston Capps explain in Bloomberg CityLab, institutional investors hold...

The critically acclaimed novelist will be at the Margaret Mitchell House this week. New York Times bestselling author Sadeqa Johnson is making a stop in Atlanta to discuss her latest historical fiction novel and how the city’s civil rights history influenced a major element of the story. On Feb....

Most of the time, dogs go viral for the cute stuff like goofy zoomies, showing off loyalty, or those tear-jerker reunions. But sometimes, something totally different pops up and grabs everyone’s attention. A video from Atlanta, Georgia, shows two dogs going after a parked car like it’s their sworn enemy. People...

The family says they’ve given the city a year to make this street safer. Now they’re suing for negligence and $12 million.

A community is mourning a U.S. Postal Service worker who family and friends say was shot and killed while delivering mail.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A DeKalb County mother that got scammed out of hundreds of dollars to get her child out of Henry County Jail is now warning others. A DeKalb County Police investigation is ongoing into the phone call made to the mother while she was at her home in DeKalb County. The mother spoke to...

Fashionaid DryCleaners in Buckhead suffered a partial collapse Sunday morning after a vehicle crashed through the front of the building. Atlanta police are on-site at Piedmont Avenue, where a car destroyed the storefront and left debris scattered across the sidewalk. FOX 5 is on the scene as crews investigate the...

An effort to provide tax relief to homeowners in Suwanee could see tax relief in a big way thanks to legislation currently working its way through the Georgia General Assembly.