It's been 20 years since the biggest controversy in Masters history. Martha Burk protested the all-male membership at Augusta National. Nine years later, the club had its first female members.
The Sunday before Masters week is unlike any other major. It's a blend of kids as young as 7 years old competing in the Drive, Chip and Putt. And then there are Masters champions like Gary Player and Bernhard Langer who are on the putting green right there with them.
Georgia officials have approved the takeover of the Augusta University hospitals associated with the state's only public medical school. The state Board of Regents on Friday approved agreements to transfer control of the hospitals to Marietta-based Wellstar Health System.
Rakiya Lenon, editor-in-chief at the university's newspaper, interviewed attorney Frank LoMonte about open records and laws that protect members of the student press.
Democratic Georgia lawmakers, local officials and the NAACP are asking federal officials to investigate a health care system that closed hospitals in downtown Atlanta and a southern suburb. They claim Wellstar Health System has illegally discriminated against Black people and violated its tax-exempt status.
A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms in one of its two new reactors. Georgia Power Co. announced the key step toward reaching commercial operation on Monday. The utility and other owners are building the first two nuclear reactors constructed from scratch in the United States in decades.
On the Wednesday Dec. 14 edition of Georgia Today podcast: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger wants election changes, James Brown Arena in Augusta is reopening, and the USPS is honoring John Lewis.
After years of steady declines, levels of homelessness in the U.S. began rising again during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proven strategies are being used to reduce homelessness, even if they are facing new challenges.
Workers have begun loading radioactive fuel into a new nuclear reactor in Georgia. The announcement Friday by utilities means the first new nuclear reactor built in decades in the United States is on track to begin generating electricity in coming months.
Augusta Symphony conductor Dirk Meyer sits down with GPB’s Sarah Zaslaw to chat about everything from the renovated movie palace the orchestra now calls home and to its music therapy program that changes lives to the difference between German and American conductor training and his own secret musical past.
As the unhoused become more a part of our daily lives, some communities are taking action. Sometimes it means simply pushing the unhoused out of the way. Increasingly it can mean creating, and sticking to, a plan.
