Initiative aims to help Georgians harness artificial intelligence for productivity
ATLANTA — Alex Willson knows how to grow a pecan and turn it into a cake, but he is not so great at analyzing shipping logistics. The president and CEO of Sunnyland Farms in Albany is running an agricultural business that dates to 1948 — not the kind of operation one...
A higher proportion of Georgia high school students graduate, setting new record
ATLANTA -- Nearly nine out of every 10 Georgia high school students in the class of 2025 earned a diploma within four years, setting a record. With one exception, Georgia's on-time graduation rate has increased every year since the class of 2011. That was the first...
Tourism sets new record in Georgia
Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at the Georgia Governor's Tourism Conference in Savannah on Friday, Sept. 26. (Contributed/Explore Georgia) ATLANTA -- Tourists and business travelers continued flocking to the Peach State last year, injecting billions into the economy,...
Breach may have exposed some Georgia Medicaid recipients’ health information
ATLANTA -- The private health information of more than 900 Medicaid recipients in Georgia may have been exposed in July, according to a state contractor. Gainwell Technologies, the fiscal agent for Medicaid in Georgia, disclosed the incident Friday, saying an...
Magazine still rates Georgia No. 1 for business
ATLANTA -- For a dozen years in a row now, Georgia has ranked at the top of an economic development magazine's listing of the best states for doing business. In a new report, Area Development Magazine cites affordable housing, reliable child care and...
Trump administration gives one-year extension to Georgia’s health insurance program for the poor
ATLANTA -- Georgia's unique approach to Medicaid was set to expire this month, but the state just got a one-year extension from the federal government. The Pathways to Coverage program, which requires recipients to prove that they work, volunteer or take classes 80...
Health officials warn of measles in Georgia
ATLANTA -- Georgia health officials are monitoring seven people for measles after they came in contact with infected people. The state Department of Public Health said Tuesday it had confirmed three new measles cases, including one on Sept. 11. "Two of the individuals...
Atlanta area voters to head to polls in November for another Senate special election
ATLANTA -- Metro Atlanta voters will head to the polls again in November to fill another vacancy in the Georgia Senate, after Democrat Jason Esteves resigned his seat this month. Esteves, a former Atlanta school board member who was first elected to the Senate in...
GOP keeps hold on north Atlanta suburbs with solid win in Senate election
ATLANTA -- Republican Jason Dickerson cruised to a strong finish ahead of a Democratic challenger in the special election Tuesday to fill a vacant state Senate seat in the northern suburbs of metro Atlanta. Dickerson, a businessman from Canton in Cherokee County, took...