Two bills looking to allow the Buckhead neighborhood to secede from the city of Atlanta and create a separate city of its own, have died in the Georgia Senate. It failed by a 33-23 vote, with all ...

ATLANTA — Buckhead will not become its own city this year. Georgia’s Speaker of the House, David Ralston, basically killed the bill in the legislature Friday. On Thursday, Channel 2′s Richard Elliot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Georgia senators torpedoed an effort to let the affluent Buckhead neighborhood secede from Atlanta on Thursday, with 10 ...

ATLANTA — "Buckhead City" took a step toward becoming reality with a party-line vote in a state senate committee Monday. It came amid new criticism that the potential new city could strip assets from ...

ATLANTA (WRBL) — Harris County Republican Sen. Randy Robertson was right in the thick of it of a busy legislative day under the Gold Dome. Robertson sponsored a bill that would have given residents of ...

The supporters of Buckhead’s proposed secession often mention that lawmakers have approved a flood of new cityhood measures since Republicans took control of the Legislature nearly two decades ago.

Bill White, the slick carnival barker leading the Buckhead cityhood parade, has been stepping in it recently. Last week, White deleted his retweet of a comment from a far-right website called VDARE, ...

ATLANTA - A Georgia Senate committee has approved two bills that could allow neighborhood of Buckhead to secede from the city of Atlanta. It's the first time that the controversial issue connected to ...

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Hours after the friends and family of a Buckhead woman stabbed to death in her home held a candlelight vigil in her memory, the leader of the Buckhead City movement proposed ...

ATLANTA - Proponents of a Buckhead City bill have been met with disappointment. The Georgia Senate on Thursday voted 33-23 to reject SB 114, quashing plans by those looking to have the Atlanta ...