U.S. Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux, D-Ga., has picked up a key local endorsement in what will likely be a fiercely contested race among Democrats to keep her seat in Congress.

A Gwinnett County commissioner is calling on residents to attend a county budget public hearing next week and demand his colleagues raise the minimum wage paid to library workers to at least $15 per hour.

Duluth residents will have to wait another day to find out who won the City Council Post 4 runoff election as the city has to count the ballots for a second time.

ATLANTA — Dr. Rich McCormick announced his candidacy Tuesday for Georgia’s newly redrawn 6th Congressional District seat.

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux, D-Ga., said on Monday that she does foresee a chance that she will back out of a race against fellow congresswoman and Democrat, U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, to keep her 7th Congressional District seat next year.

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux, D-Ga., said a portion of the Build Back Better Act could help Georgians caught in a health insurance coverage gap in Georgia without needing buy-in from Republicans in the state who have been cool to the idea of Medicaid expansion.

The bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by Congress earlier this fall could help with efforts to improve traffic capacity on Interstate 85 and expand public transit in Gwinnett County, officials said on Monday.

State Rep. Donna McLeod, D-Lawrenceville, was recently recognized by the Georgia Association of Educators for her efforts to modernize Georgia's education funding formula.

State Rep. Jasmine Clark, D-Lilburn, has pre-filed legislation to make sure Georgia students are taught about consent during their sex education classes as a way to fight sexual assault.

State Rep. Gregg Kennard, D-Lawrenceville, will push legislation in the 2022 legislative session to address mental and behavioral health needs of Georgia's first responders.

A state lawmaker who was part of the blue wave of 2018 in Gwinnett is planning to run for Congress.

Gwinnett County school board Chairman Everton Blair shook up next year's election cycle on Tuesday by announcing he will not seek a second term in office.

U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., announced on Monday that she will run for the newly redrawn 7th congressional District — putting her at odds with U.S. Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux, also D-Ga., who is also moving ahead with running for re-election to the seat.

State Rep. Beth Moore, D-Peachtree Corners, will try to make the jump from the Georgia House of Representatives to the Georgia Senate next year.

As Gwinnett County officials kicked off a series of open houses to gather public input on county commission redistricting, there was one question that loomed in the background over the proceedings: whether the commission should be expanded.

Gwinnett County Public Schools is making local control one of its top legislative priorities for next year on the heels of a stalled attempt by Republican legislators from Gwinnett to push a bill targeting the county's school board through the General Assembly's special session.

Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan announced on Thursday that state Sen. Clint Dixon, R-Buford, will lead a study committee looking into nonpartisan school boards, building off legislation Dixon tried to push through this month targeting the Gwinnett County Board of Education.

ATLANTA -- Republican lawmakers on Wednesday released another proposed congressional map that appears to make one metro Atlanta district more friendly to the GOP while leaving another solidly in Democratic hands.

Gwinnett County Commission Chairwoman Nicole Love Hendrickson said she wanted her first county budget proposal since taking office to address an array of community needs ranging from human services, to transit expansion, increased public safety and better access to elections materials.

A pair of controversial bills that would have expanded the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners and changed the way the county's school board is elected have been put on ice until at least 2022.

Former state Rep. Josh Clark, who now lives with his family in the Flowery Branch area in Hall County, kicked off his Senate campaign on Monday.

While a group of Republican legislators are moving an effort to expand the Gwinnett County commission — over the objections of the commission — through the legislative process, the commissioners are proceeding with their own separate redistricting efforts.

The move to make Gwinnett County school board elections nonpartisan and redraw map for the board's districts without consulting Gwinnett County Public Schools or its school board has drawn a rebuke from GCPS Superintendent Calvin Watts and a letter-writing campaign from parents.

Gwinnett County found itself at the center of a political storm steeped in allegations of partisan politics and racism at the state Capitol this past week after the county's lone Republican senator put forward a pair of bills targeting the county commission and school board.

The proposal included in Senate Bill 6 EX to expand the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners is raising questions about what kind of long-term impact it would have on the county's government, both in terms of annual costs and the increased size of the government.

The state Senate took another step Friday toward completing the once-in-a-decade task of redrawing Georgia’s legislative and congressional districts, approving a map drawn by the House of Representatives.

A bill to add five district seats to the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners was approved by a Georgia Senate committee on Thursday over objections from local officials and some committee members over the racial make up of proposed districts and the financial cost to Gwinnett taxpayers.

An at-times contentious hearing on two bills that would make majors changes to Gwinnett County's school board and county commission resulted in a hurdle being cleared for one of the bills on Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux said two bills, one that she has introduced and another that Congress recently passed, will be a key step in helping communities make headway on addressing a host of infrastructure needs ranging from transportation to water and broadband.

As a veteran himself, Gwinnett County Commissioner Jasper Watkins III has spent his first 10-and-a-half months in office being the voice who often brings up the needs of veterans with he and his colleagues are discussing plans for Gwinnett's future.

ATLANTA — Former Georgia U.S. Sen. and Secretary of State Max Cleland died Tuesday at the age of 79.

ATLANTA – Georgians whose cities and counties would be divided under a new state House map proposed by legislative Republicans complained Monday the new districts would unfairly dilute their voting power. During a nearly three-hour hearing, residents from Coweta County, Peachtree City, Dunwoody and other communities pleaded with members of the House Legislative & Congressional […]

Buford's only contested race on Tuesday's municipal election ballot has resulted in a new school board member.

ATLANTA — It looks like a new state Senate map will be the first order of business for the General Assembly special redistricting session that convened Wednesday.

One of the first city council members elected as Peachtree Corners was becoming a city in 2012 has lost her bid for another term in office.

Despite having led Dacula as its mayor for nearly three years, Trey King was elected to the office for the first time on Tuesday.

Unofficial results released by the city of Braselton on Tuesday night show Kurt Ward will be the city's new mayor.

Gwinnett County commissioners voted to hold off on making a final decision about a proposed change to a county ordinance that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana on Tuesday.

ATLANTA – Georgia lawmakers will converge at the state Capitol Nov. 3 to begin redrawing Georgia’s political maps, a once-a-decade exercise to accommodate population shifts reflected in the U.S. Census.

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux, D-Ga., is one of 32 Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives who are backing a bill to give state and local governments more flexibility in how they use their COVID-19 relief funds.

Gwinnett County Public Schools is turning to the Georgia General Assembly to not only approve a reapportionment map for the county's school board, but to also have one of its offices draw up the map.

Gwinnett County commissioners are making a big investment in a new exhibit at the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center in Buford.