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The city that hosted the 1996 Games will be the first American stop for the 2028 Olympic torch relay to Los Angeles.
Two pandas from Chengdu landed at Hartsfield-Jackson on Sunday and will spend about a month in quarantine.
Atlanta Community Food Bank CEO Kyle Waide will take over as downtown's top civic leader on Dec. 1, succeeding AJ Robinson after 23 years.
A Grady-run services hub inside the downtown city detention center is seeing far fewer guests than it was built for.
A resolution before Atlanta City Council asks the mayor's office, MARTA and Atlanta Beltline Inc. for a Beltline rail construction plan.
Georgia State's Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions puts students in a teaching kitchen to learn food as medicine.
Georgia State's College of Law launches a free clinic to help Georgia families untangle heirs' property and plan estates.
Grady Health System is scaling back the temporary block-pay premium for nurses at its downtown Atlanta hospital and systemwide.
Atlanta City Council passes a parking bill of rights requiring private pay-to-park lots to post their rules at the entrance.
The city has folded real-time traffic data, a Citymapper trip planner and downloadable navigation guides into one page — arriving just as school traffic returns and Downtown construction multiplies.
Roughly 75,000 Dragon Con attendees, a sold-out Aflac Kickoff Game and 2.3 million airport passengers land on Downtown in the same five days. Here is where the trains stop and what is still closed at Five Points.
Blue Meridian Partners and the Blank Family Foundation would fund workforce development, early childhood education and affordable housing, contingent on the city matching them dollar for dollar.
A Morehouse graduate who grew up on the New York subway spent a summer riding from Ashby to Midtown — and argues Atlanta's global ambitions run through a system it undervalues.
Residential permits fell more than 18% in a year, and ARC's research chief says the affordability that once pulled people to Atlanta no longer does the same work.
Five-minute headways, ambassadors at every portal and English fans comparing it to the Tube — then a date-night ride with no police, broken tap-and-pay and trains off schedule.
