Shirley C. Franklin, Atlanta's first Black woman mayor, was celebrated with a street and park named in her honor. The Atlanta City Council shared the event on its YouTube ...

The Atlanta City Council Public Safety Committee has voted to hold a resolution aimed at initiating an exit strategy for removing Fulton County inmates from the city jail. The Small Business ...

The committee gave ‘no recommendation’ as to how the full Council should vote when the zoning and land use approvals comes ...

The City of Atlanta will ask all of its employees to return to work, except for those in the 311 department. The more than ...

ATLANTA — Three Atlanta City Council members have announced their departure from their council seats for this year. Councilmembers Amir Farokhi, Marci Collier Overstreet, and Howard Shook have ...

The Atlanta City Council is advancing a resolution that could force Fulton County to look for a new place to jail people.

The Atlanta City Council approved a pay raise for themselves, the council president and the mayor. According to the city ordinance that was amended Monday night, the last time any of them received ...

City of Atlanta departments looking to hire for vacant positions must now get special approval from the mayor’s office as the city works to cut back on spending. The hiring slowdown comes after the ...

Atlanta’s city council president seat is wide open for the Nov. 4 municipal elections, since the current president, Doug ...

Now, the City of Atlanta said it is working on a major project to improve its clean water system to prevent it from happening ...

Riley Bunch is a reporter on the local government team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering Atlanta City Hall. She covers the mayor and Atlanta City Council while also keeping an eye on the ...

Amsterdam Walk is set for a transformation into a mixed-use development, bringing big change to the area. ATLANTA — Amsterdam Walk, the popular retail and commercial area near the BeltLine, could ...