Atlanta News First

Ice and snow are predicted for this weekend in metro Atlanta. In this podcast, award-winning investigative reporters Anastassia Olmos and Harry Samler - better known as Better Call Harry - talk about the dangers of...

Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank answered several questions Thursday as the 83-year-old business and philanthropic titan held a news conference following a huge shakeup in the Falcons’ front office. Early Sunday...

On Nov. 1, funding ran out for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, due to the government shutdown.  Although a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to continue supporting SNAP...

In the late hours of Oct. 26, 1970, and into the early morning hours of Oct. 27, the most famous armed robbery in Atlanta history happened. And it was right after the city's most famous sports event in its history, up...

The return of the champion ended with Atlanta’s most famous armed robbery in history. On Oct. 26, 1970, Muhammad Ali returned to the right for the first time since his three-year suspension from boxing for...

Over a long, distinguished career as an American sports journalist, Terence Moore likely interviewed Hank Aaron more than anyone. In fact, Moore said he was the last media professional to interview Aaron before his...

The two political candidates couldn’t have been more different. One man, descending from a family line of Baptist ministers and championing the values of temperance and chastity, promised law and order. The other...

Sixty years ago today, Mary Shotwell Little left her job at C&S Bank, where she worked as a secretary. That evening, she met a coworker for dinner and shopping at Lenox Square, and parted ways about 8 p.m. She never...

Early city officials purchased six acres in 1850 to be a public burial ground for a young-but-fast-growing town of Atlanta.  Originally called Atlanta Graveyard or City Burial Place, this was the beginning of...

The product that has become the world's most iconic consumer brand was first served in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup for Coca-Cola, and carried a jug...

Its streets were traveled by some of the nation’s principled and most courageous. Its buildings were brick-laid by people who endured and persevered to leave behind a better city than they discovered. Atlanta and...

One of the world’s most celebrated and influential speeches was delivered 60 years ago. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., made his now-famous “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963, capping the...

Mary Phagan had only two things on her mind on April 26, 1913. First, it was Confederate Memorial Day in Georgia, and she was excited to show off her new dress. Second, she had to pick up her paycheck of $1.20 from Leo...

The Heart of Atlanta Supreme Court decision stands among the court’s most significant civil rights rulings. In Atlanta, two arch segregationists vowed to flout the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the sweeping slate of...

Atlanta’s very first Super Bowl remains arguably the most exciting in NFL history. The crime that happened only hours later remains the Super Bowl's most infamous. Hours after the St. Louis Rams withstood a...