The innovative retail technology rollout is the latest milestone in a long-standing partnership between the Georgia Lottery and metro Atlanta-based Scientific Games, a collaboration that began at the Lottery’s inception in 1993. Through the long-standing partnership, Scientific Games has worked with the Lottery to launch its first scratch game, first second-chance promotion and is soon to launch its first loyalty program.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
While leaders focus on external market pressures, the 2025 Business Generosity Report suggests a surprising retention challenge is quietly unfolding within their organizations.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
As national Hunger Action Month kicks off in September, Chick-fil-A, Inc. today announced it will reach a major milestone in addressing community hunger, donating the equivalent of more than 200 million meals* to communities in need since 2020. This milestone reflects the collective efforts of local Owner-Operators, Restaurant Team Members, Chick-fil-A, Inc. and more than 1,500 community partners within the communities we serve.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
Colony Bank is honored to share that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has issued an official commendation recognizing its 50th anniversary. The commendation celebrates five decades of dedicated service to customers, commitment to strengthening Georgia communities, and support for local businesses and economic growth.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
For the seventh straight year, Augusta University has been named one of the top 100 employers in the state of Georgia by Forbes’ annual list, “America’s Best-In-State Employers.”| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
The Jessye Norman School of The Arts (JNSA) is proud to announce its| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
The Home Depot announced that it has completed the acquisition of GMS Inc. ("GMS") through its specialty trade distribution subsidiary, SRS Distribution Inc. ("SRS"), for a total enterprise value (including net debt) of approximately $5.5 billion. GMS is one of the leading distributors of specialty building products including drywall, ceilings, steel framing and other complementary products related to remodeling and construction projects in residential and commercial end markets. The agreeme...| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property data, and real estate analytics, today released its latest Housing Risk Report spotlighting county-level housing markets around the United States that are more or less vulnerable to declines, based on home affordability, equity and other measures in the second quarter of 2025. The report shows that many of the highest and lowest risk counties were located in the South.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
Private sector employment increased by 54,000 jobs in August and pay was up 4.4 percent year-over-year according to the August ADP National Employment Report® produced by ADP Research in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab ("Stanford Lab"). | Augusta CEO Latest Articles
The Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) awarded a total of 44 projects valued at approximately $201.8 million at the monthly State Transportation Board meeting held in July.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
H.R. 4669, the Fixing Emergency Management for Americans (FEMA) Act of 2025, proposes the most significant changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency in decades. The bill was introduced with bipartisan support and addresses FEMA’s structure, mission, and programs. | Augusta CEO Latest Articles
Georgia is going through numerous transitions, according to state economic forecasters at Georgia State University.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
Resume.org, the leading platform for building a resume, has released new findings from an August 2025 survey exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming the hiring process. The survey of 1,399 full-time U.S. workers with knowledge of their company's hiring practices found that 57% of companies already use AI to support hiring. Among those, 74% say AI has improved the quality of their hires, and 79% use it to review resumes. Other common uses include candidate assessments (66%), re...| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
Senior Human Resource Client Executive at OneDigital Vickie Price explains why Georgia businesses are opting for an outsourced HR model and the advantages it offers.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
On Wednesday, Governor Brian P. Kemp announced that JS Link America Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of JS Link, intends to invest about $223 million to establish a new rare earth permanent magnet manufacturing facility in Columbus. The new facility will create more than 520 new jobs in Muscogee County, Georgia.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
Executive Director of the CSRA Alliance for Fort Gordon Dr. Tom Clark talks about the CyberPatriot Program and why this program has been so successful.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
The Palomar Group is pleased to announce the sale of Professional Village, a 33,325-square-foot office property located at 119 Davis Road in Augusta, GA. The property, built in 1976 and 95% occupied at the time of sale, traded for $3,300,000 on August 11, 2025. The buyer was a 1031 exchange investor, while the seller was a family trust.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
Georgia lawmakers are taking a fresh look at a state-run venture capital fund that was created a dozen years ago.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
Georgia Power and Friends of Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites (Friends) are preparing to celebrate Your State Parks Day on September 27, an annual event hosted by Friends to help care for Georgia’s state parks in celebration of National Public Lands Day. The event was created by Friends and has been supported by Georgia Power for the last several years with hundreds of Georgia Power employees helping clean up and beautify their local state parks through the program, primarily through th...| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
While it’s widely known that exercise can improve symptoms and outcomes of various medical conditions, a group of researchers at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University recently dug deep and uncovered how exercise improves blood vessel health in people living with type 2 diabetes.| Augusta CEO Latest Articles
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S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) today released the December 2024 results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices. The leading measure of U.S. home prices recorded a 3.9% annual gain in December 2024, a slight increase from the previous annual gains in 2024. More than 27 years of history are available for the data series and can be accessed in full by going to https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/index-family/indicators/sp-corelogic-case-shiller/.| Augusta CEO