Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced that he is calling lawmakers back to work to consider redistricting.

The Athens-Clarke County mayor and commission met for a work session to determine whether public sewer lines could be extended into northern parts of the county.

During a commission work session Tuesday, County Manager Bob Cowell said that the county expects to collect an extra $1.6 million. He said some of the money will go to funding county employee salary increases and police pensions. Manager Cowell said the remainder should go back into the county’s fund balance, or reserves.

Clarke and Oconee County high schools earned multiple statewide honors for student performance on Advanced Placement exams, according to a list released last week by State School Superintendent Richard Woods.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law requiring nonpartisan elections for most local officials in the five most populous counties in the Atlanta area, leading Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and another Democratic prosecutor to threaten to sue over the bill's constitutionality.

U.S. school districts worry it could get even more expensive to prepare a meal under new federal dietary guidelines, as they also contend with cuts to programs that helped them buy local food.

Until recently, Jonathan Gross was a Trump political appointee at the Department of Justice and worked on its "Weaponization Working Group." He has now become a vocal critic of the department.

Much of the focus of the ongoing redistricting war has been on which political party will come out on top. But it's voters who will pay a cost, say voting experts and voting rights advocates.

Gabriela Lena Frank's first opera, in its Met debut, sees late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead to be reunited with her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera.