In response to a rise in COVID-19 infections in Georgia, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has reinstated a mask mandate in Atlanta. Gov. Brian Kemp's office issued a statement saying that mandates only create division and unnecessarily divert critical resources.
Georgia’s unemployment rate fell to an all-time low of 2.8% in November, marking the first time the number has dipped below 3% since current records began in 1976.
And on this one year anniversary of the first COVID vaccinations, Georgia Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Kathleen Toomey says the fight against the pandemic has not always gone as planned. GPB’s Riley Bunch reports.
Georgia environmental advocates have released their annual list of water issues they say need to be addressed, the so-called Dirty Dozen. GPB's Grant Blankenship reports.
A months-long Associated Press investigation in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump, including Georgia, has found fewer than 475 cases of potential voter fraud.
Georgia's former insurance commissioner has begun a seven-year prison sentence.
Two Fulton County election workers are suing a popular far-right website for defamation, that falsely claims they committed election fraud. GPB's Stephen Fowler reports.
A judge has ordered nine lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump, including two who tried to overturn Georgia's 2020 general election results, to pay Detroit and Michigan.
The Georgia legislature is officially done with redistricting, with the final passage of a new Congressional map that now goes to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature.
Meanwhile, Kemp and the Republican leaders of 14 other states are pushing the federal government to get more drivers on the road to ease supply chain issues at ports in Savannah and across the country.
The Glynn County jury will hear closing arguments in the murder case against Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan for the February 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
The state House is set to approve a new Congressional map that would give Republicans another seat.
Atlanta police continue to search for Kenny Wells, the man who escaped with his gun from an airport security checkpoint after the gun in his luggage discharged on Saturday.
Closing arguments in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial will begin Monday. This after defense attorneys wrapped up their case yesterday after calling seven witnesses.
A former state correctional officer has been charged with two felonies, including obstruction of justice, in connection to the 2018 assault by guards on an inmate at Valdosta State Prison.
The trial of the three white men accused of felony murder in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery continues in Glynn County, with one of the defendants, Travis McMichael, speaking on his own behalf.
Savannah is the latest city in Georgia to pull back on mask mandates.
The prosecution in the trial of three white men accused of murder in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery have rested their case.
Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr have filed another lawsuit over the Biden administration's COVID vaccine mandate, this time for health care workers.
All five of the inmates who escaped from the Pulaski County Jail on Friday are now back in custody.
A bill that creates new boundary lines for state Senate districts heads to Governor Brian Kemp's desk.
Rather than wait for a verdict from a Muscogee County jury, Mark Jones has pleaded guilty to ethics violations -- he's also resigning from his post as the regional district attorney.
A bill that creates new boundary lines for state Senate districts heads to Governor Brian Kemp's desk. GPB's Stephen Fowler has the latest from the Legislature’s redistricting special session.
And Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley denied mistrial requests today in the Ahmaud Arbery death trial. Defense attorneys claimed crying from the gallery where Arbery's parents sat with the Reverend Jesse Jackson tainted jurors.