Workers in Georgia at one of the nation's largest school bus makers have voted to unionize. Employees at Blue Bird Corp. chose to be represented by the United Steelworkers union by a vote of 697-435.
In the wake of this year’s Orange Crush spring break event, the Tybee Island City Council is asking state and federal lawmakers to consider restricting access to the island when it becomes overly crowded.
Georgia State University graduated earlier this month its first class of students who earned their associate's degrees while incarcerated.
Rates of maternal mortality in the U.S. have soared, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. As Mother's Day nears, experts remember the women who died in childbirth.
After more than three years and 1.1 million deaths, the United States on Thursday ended the public health emergency for COVID-19 — and Congress is attempting to better prepare for a possible resurgence of that virus or another.
On the Friday, May 12 edition of Georgia Today: So-called "woke" language is being removed from from Georgia teacher training; the vice president is in Atlanta this afternoon; and we'll talk with the producers of a new podcast that looks at one of Georgia's most troubled correctional facilities.
Friday on Political Rewind: Since August 2001, Soumaya Khalifa has worked through the Islamic Speakers Bureau to educate Georgians on the ins and outs of life as a Muslim woman in America.
The members of the Georgia Professional Standards Commission, which oversees educator training rules, have been getting a lot of emails ahead of the Thursday meeting in which they voted unanimously to remove references to diversity from Georgia’s teacher standards.
State officials in charge of checking Medicaid eligibility for millions of people over the next year gave their first update on the process Thursday.
The Georgia Professional Standards Commission voted Thursday to remove certain words like “diversity,” “equity” and "inclusion” from educator training curriculum.
The U.S. Army officially renamed Georgia's Fort Benning to Fort Moore Thursday.
On the Thursday May 11 edition of Georgia Today: Fort Benning has a new name and it's definitely a family affair.. we'll explain; A new pilot program will bring healthcare to the homes of some expectant mothers; and legendary Georgia bands participate in a benefit to preserve Georgia's theaters.
New York's attorney general is suing a Georgia gun accessory manufacturer for selling a magazine lock that can be easily removed to attach high-capacity magazines. The magazine lock supplied by Woodstock-based Mean Arms allowed a white gunman to insert multiple 30-round magazines to the AR-15 he used in the racist 2022 Buffalo massacre.
The Army's training hub in Georgia is now officially called Fort Moore. The Army completed a name change Thursday that's been a year in the making at the base known previously as Fort Benning.