Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp delivered a blow this week to the wealthy suburban Buckhead neighborhood’s effort to secede from the city of Atlanta over violent crime. The issue is tentatively ...

Ten Republican state lawmakers in Georgia joined with Democrat senators to sink a proposal to let an affluent, conservative neighborhood secede from Atlanta on Thursday. "If we jerk the heart out of ...

Members of Atlanta’s Buckhead community want to part ways from the city. Atlanta’s Buckhead district is trying to become its own city, drawing mixed reactions from folks around town. Buckhead is known ...

ATLANTA (NewsNation) — The affluent and predominantly white neighborhood of Buckhead in Atlanta is moving closer to breaking away from one of the most populous cities in the Southeast. Some residents ...

The leaders of the effort to split Atlanta into two municipalities have called it quits “for now” after their Buckhead secession movement was crushed in the Georgia Senate. The Buckhead City Committee ...

Some residents of the affluent and predominantly white neighborhood of Buckhead in Atlanta are pushing to secede from the city. Those supporting the measure cite concerns about crime and say they’re ...