Jim Burress

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s old Atlanta neighborhood, Sweet Auburn, was once one of the more prosperous African-American neighborhoods, but it has since fallen on hard times. Now it is trying to make a comeback.

NCAA Division I universities continue to spend big money for sports programs, according to a new study. Does the investment pay off?

So half the dose should mean half the price, right?

HUD cannot afford to fix its public housing, so the government wants to reclassify the properties as Section 8.

NASA looks to find new uses for defunct space center.

It's another sign the global business world has become less centralized and more diffuse. The company poised to buy the New York Stock Exchange for more than $8 billion is based not in a world financial center, but in Atlanta.

As Georgia confronts budget cuts, residents fights to keep the state archives funded.

In Georgia alone, 1 in 12 jobs is linked to the ports of Savannah and Brunswick. If longshoremen and port authorities can't agree on a new contract, an economic slowdown is possible.

Buying into the American Dream? Renting for life? For younger people, home ownership is less cut-and-dry than it was a generation ago.

A proposal to add a penny to Atlanta's sales tax would mean billions raised for transit projects, winning the backing of business leaders but attracting a strange mix of opponents.