Now that President Obama has canceled plans to store the nation's highly radioactive nuclear waste at the controversial Yucca Mountain site in Nevada, South Carolina community leaders are wondering if their state will become the new long-term storage solution. More...

Last winter, a remote Texas prison convulsed in a cry of outrage, voicing the desperation of the immigration system's silenced captives. Michelle Chen reports. More...

In Georgia, a full count of undocumented immigrants and their families brings economic benefits to local communities that no one can afford to miss, writes Afton Branche. More...

In closing its doors, Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, leaves the city without a hospital to treat low-income, poor and undocumented people who need dialysis. More...

Heavy rains are leading to unprecedented flooding of the Chattahoochee River, which runs near coal ash storage ponds at Georgia Power's Plant Wansley and Plant Yates. The company says it has no reports of problems at this time. More...

Even though Georgia Senate Republicans are proposing to amend the state constitution to prevent health care reform in the state, other Georgia lawmakers are weighing in. Monday the Atlanta City Council passed a resolution calling on Congress to enact "comprehensive, quality, affordable health care legislation for all Americans." More...

The retail giant responsible for damaging an ancient Indian mound in Alabama to get fill dirt for a new store in its Sam's Club chain has damaged culturally significant Native American sites before -- and it's not alone. More...

In a major breakthrough Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a new hearing for Georgia death-row inmate Troy Davis. Davis' case has become one of most high-profile death penalty cases in the United States, and has helped to spur a growing movement against the death penalty in the South. More...

Despite raucous protests, members of Congress are moving ahead with town hall meetings this week, with events today in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. Help Facing South cover these events! More...

A longtime proponent of advance care planning, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) says the effort to portray such planning as creating "death panels" is "nuts." But he's no fan of the Obama administration's reform plan, either. More...

The office of Rep. David Scott of suburban Atlanta was also hit with other graffiti using racial slurs and calling for "Death to all Marxists!" The lawmaker believes he's been targeted over remarks he made at a recent town hall on health care reform, which he supports. More...

AUGUST 2009 | Some of the anger over health care reform focuses on a provision encouraging elderly patients to plan for end-of-life care, a provision misrepresented by opponents as a "death panel" to determine who lives and who dies. But one of the biggest promoters of advance care planning is Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia -- a pro-life Republican. More...

Sixteen bank failures -- one-quarter of all bank failures in the United States so far this year -- have been reported in Georgia. Why are the state's banks so vulnerable? More...

In what is being called a political victory for the Obama administration, the Senate voted Tuesday to halt further production of the Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter jets, one of the nation's most expensive defense programs. More...

As the recession deepened across the country in 2008, the nation saw a shift in its homeless populations to include more families and more rural and suburban areas. More...

States continue to expand alternatives to incarceration for low-level offenders, including reducing sentencing times and streamlining probation and parole. More...

While federal recovery spending is generally working as intended by helping states provide needed services and avoid layoffs, a number of states have squandered funds trying to steal jobs from each other. More...

Two Georgia banks failed Friday, with 14 failing across the state since last August. Bad real estate lending is a major culprit, reports Jake Bernstein of ProPublica. More...

Links between the Honduran coup leaders and a Pentagon training school at Fort Benning, Georgia, revive a debate about U.S. intervention -- and the U.S. connection to human rights abuses like torture. More...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that requires a number of states and many local governments -- mostly in the South -- to get federal permission before changing their voting procedures. Judith Browne-Dianis makes the case for why that provision is still crucial today. More...