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The bill contains six new fees and dozens of fee hikes expected to raise millions of dollars to help fill a widening budget hole.

Sweeping water conservation legislation is on its way to Gov. Sonny Perdue. The House gave the Georgia Water Stewardship Act final approval with a 153-8 vote on Thursday.

A bill introduced this week with the support of Senate and House leaders sets the framework for a systematic study of Georgia's tax system this summer and fall by a blue-ribbon committee and creates an extraordinary mechanism for submitting any recommendations it may produce to next year's Legislature.

Former presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will speak at Emory University later this month.

Speaker David Ralston urged a House panel to get moving on a bill that could provide new funding for roads.

The target of political anger has shifted from the University System of Georgia's Board of Regents to the state's hospitals.

The House voted Tuesday to give state revenue officials more muscle to collect overdue taxes.

A resolution honoring entertainment mogul Tyler Perry, scheduled to be proclaimed on Wednesday by the Georgia Senate, has been postponed.

Georgia's top judge warned state lawmakers Tuesday that deep cuts to the state budget are making it "increasingly difficult" for the courts to do their constitutionally mandated duties.

In a desperate search to plug multimillion-dollar holes in the Georgia budget, legislators are looking at raising some of 1,700 different fees the state charges for various services and licenses.

The House approved a bill Tuesday that would outlaw the use of gas chambers to euthanize pets at animal shelters in Georgia.

Legislation to prohibit the release of nude crime-scene photos is likely to sail through the Senate, according to Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers.

State senators are in unanimous support of a proposal to create a state-wide alert system to catch criminals who kill or seriously injury law enforcement officers in Georgia.

Senate leaders are expected to get dozens of ideas for saving billions of dollars from a group of business leaders assembled to bring fresh ideas to Georgia's fiscal crisis.

College students rallied at the state Capitol to protest possible cuts to higher education.

Georgia's Environmental Protection Division will hold a public meeting in April to discuss air quality permits associated with the $14.5 billion addition of two new reactors to Plant Vogtle.

A few hundred college students rallied on the steps of the Georgia Capitol on Monday to protest budget cuts they say could make college too expensive at a time when education is needed with a shrinking pool of jobs.

The polling firm Strategic Vision is out with its first public poll since facing a barrage of allegations last September that it had extensively falsified data in its political surveys.

When someone is murdered, a child is molested or public money goes missing, Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents are the first ones South Georgia sheriffs and prosecutors call for help.

A House bill making its way through the Georgia General Assembly, proposes that sex offenders be banned from sites like Facebook and MySpace.