ATLANTA — Bills meant to reduce paper use in state government and to expand a state Web site already loaded with information about government spending and employee salaries will be a priority for top Senate leaders, they announced Monday.

The 2009 Georgia General Assembly session ended with a deafening thud as far as two threatened museums were concerned. The Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame were counting on a locally sponsored measure to devote an extra penny from the hotel-motel to help the museums make ends meet. It didn’t happen. Our local delegation couldn’t get itself together enough to get the job done.

Mother Nature's wrath has forced the U.S. House to scrap its work week.

Adult diapers could be rationed and personal care assistants may need to buy their own disposable gloves to help cut $109 million from the state's Medicaid costs, state lawmakers were told Tuesday.

Haiti's government has raised the death toll for the Jan. 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000 and says more bodies remain uncounted.

A smelly problem is piling at trails around Jackson where people go hiking and cross-country skiing with their dogs. How big is this problem? Bridger-Teton National Forest officials say they recently counted 173 piles of dog waste around just one trailhead.