This week, the Georgia General Assembly passed its first bills of the session, including an amended budget to fund hurricane relief, prison upgrades, and school safety measures. Meanwhile, the Senate advanced a controversial ban on transgender athletes, and Democrats pushed to put abortion rights on the ballot.

The United States Agency for International Development remains in turmoil as federal government agencies are targeted, with suppliers and recipients awash in confusion. Georgia farmers and peanut product manufacturers could be affected.

On the Friday, Feb. 7 edition of Georgia Today: A furlough of some federal workers going into effect today could affect Georgia's peanut industry; and the state senate passes a bill banning transgender girls from school sports.

A Georgia company funded largely by the US Agency for International Development is closely watching the agency's dismantling.

The state Senate yesterday passed a bill that would ban transgender girls from participating in school sports designated for women.

The Trump administration is using a federal prison in Atlanta to detain people arrested in its immigration crackdown, the AP reports.

On Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, the federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case of Anna Lange, a sergeant with the Houston County Sheriff’s Office in Middle Georgia.

As the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement nationally, Sheriff’s offices in Georgia are slowly doing the same as mandated by a state law passed last year. 

The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed two additional measles cases in unvaccinated metro Atlanta residents. These two cases are family members of the case confirmed earlier this year in January.

In this week's Lawmaker Huddle on Morning Edition, GPB’s Pamela Kirkland catches up with Lawmakers host Donna Lowry to break down the latest from the Gold Dome. where the Georgia General Assembly passed its first bills of the session, including an amended budget to fund hurricane relief, prison upgrades, and school safety measures. Meanwhile, the Senate advanced a controversial ban on transgender athletes, and Democrats pushed to put abortion rights on the ballot.

At a Valentine's weekend appearance in Augusta Feb. 15, the legendary trumpeter, singer, songwriter and starmaker will revisit six decades of hits.

A judge has ruled that a Georgia railroad can buy land against the will of property owners to build a track. The Tuesday ruling rejects a challenge that a libertarian group hoped could make it harder to use eminent domain to take property.

Thursday at the Capitol, the House OK'd millions of dollars in state funds and the Senate took up a controversial bill.

A new helipad on the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville Green Tower's roof means faster and more efficient access to support life-saving trauma, heart and surgical care.

On Thursday, the Georgia Senate passed a controversial bill banning transgender girls from participating in school sports while the House approved the amended fiscal year 2025 budget. On Saturday, an 11-story tower opens at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville.

A rule enacted by the Biden administration that took effect for many Affordable Care Act plans on Jan. 1 should make it easier for people like Wilkins to get long-acting PrEP injectable drugs — a new Trump administration adds an X factor to this and other federal health programs. 

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Doug Collins as secretary of veterans affairs, putting the former congressman and Iraq War veteran at the helm of a department that provides crucial care to America’s veterans.