If you pay property taxes in Georgia, you would receive a county valuation notice every year and instructions on how to appeal it under a bill that the state Senate passed unanimously and sent to the House on Thursday.

Cuts to higher education would not be as severe as feared, but hospitals would face hundreds of millions in new fees and taxes under Gov. Sonny Perdue's revised budget plan released Thursday.

A controversial proposal that could lead to the re-creation of Milton County out of what is now north Fulton County could be voted on by the state House of Representatives in a week.

With school budget cuts making the headlines daily, some lawmakers are ready to give school systems the flexibility to lop five days off their school calendar and up their class sizes.

By a 4-1 vote, the state Public Service Commission approved a fuel charge hike for the company Thursday afternoon, in a settlement ending a three-month-old case.

State Sen. Cecil Staton's effort to crack down on illegitimate massage parlors moved passed committee Thursday with new sanctions for parlor owners instead of just the women who work there.

The Georgia House balked Thursday at passing local legislation calling for a November referendum on extending DeKalb County's property tax freeze another five year

Legislators aren't surprised when they come into their chamber and find small gifts, promoting this city or that special interest. But some weren't happy when what was waiting for them Thursday were several items promoting the 2010 U.S. Census.

Both political parties are taking tea party activists seriously and are wary of offending them – if they are not already actively wooing them for state races this fall. Just look at the governor’s election in Ohio. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich openly touts his tea party credentials in his bid to defeat incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland. “I think I was in the tea party before there was a tea party,” Kasich famously told a Columbus crowd earlier this year. “This is a real movement with a real message about people’s frustrations by broken promises that leaders on both sides of the aisle would be foolish to ignore,” he went on to write in a blog posting.