By Justin Gray, WSB-TV — Watch the full news story here. ATLANTA — Just days after we reported that members of the U.S. Senate were pressing a real estate company for answers about its 40-year listing agreements, Channel 2 Action News has...
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By T.A. DeFeo, The Center Square — (The Center Square) — Georgia ranked ninth for residents struggling to pay off medical debt. According to a new report from HelpAdvisor.com, more than one in six Georgians (17.3%) with a credit report have medical...
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By Drew Kann, The Atlanta Journal Constitution — Georgia Power, staff for the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) and several consumer advocacy groups have reached a deal that could pass $7.6 billion in remaining Plant Vogtle expansion costson to...
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By Jeff Amy, Associated Press News— ATLANTA (AP) — Residential customers of Georgia’s largest electrical utility could see their bills rise $9 more a month to pay for a new nuclear power plant under a deal announced Wednesday. Georgia Power Co. said...
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By Jeff Dantre, WUGA — A legislative study committee looking for ways to modernize Georgia’s Certificate of Need guidelines governing the construction of new health facilities in the state heard from a consumer advocate who’s calling for more notice before...
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By Alice Barrett, Georgia Law News — Several of Georgia’s hospital regulations should be changed or scrapped to give patients better access to health care, advocates and policy analysts told a House of Representatives committee in Augusta. Georgia House’s...
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By Nick Thomas, Becker’s Hospital Review — Following Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System’s abrupt closure of two Atlanta Medical Center facilities in late 2022, health systems in the state should in the future provide 180 days of notice...
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By Joe Hotchkiss, The Augusta Chronicle — Several of Georgia’s regulations governing hospitals should be changed or scrapped to give patients better access to health care, advocates and policy analysts told a state House committee in Augusta. The...
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By Dave Williams, Capitol Beat News Service — ATLANTA – The state should require hospitals planning to close or eliminate core medical services to give 180 days written notice, the head of a statewide consumer advocacy group said Tuesday. That six months...
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By Drew Kann, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — WAYNESBORO — The first of the two new units at Plant Vogtle, in east Georgia, has officially entered commercial service, Georgia Power announced Monday, making history as the first nuclear reactor...
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By Stanely Dunlap, Georgia Recorder — The debate surrounding Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle expansion raged on Thursday during the latest installment of state regulators considering the controversial nuclear expansion project, which has doubled in cost and...
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By Ashli Lincoln, WSB-TV— Watch full story here. ATLANTA — Tia Ballard said an Easter Day fire left her family without a home. “People are running and crying. It was really scary,” she said. She told Channel 2 investigative reporter Ashli...
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