Georgia begins COVID-19 vaccination
ATLANTA — Local health departments are giving COVID-19 shots while supplies last, with more vaccine expected to arrive next week. The Georgia Department of Public Health began vaccinating after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new COVID-19...
House Republicans consider more funding for public health
ATLANTA — Public health services save Georgia money and heartache, but funding has failed to keep up with costs and recent federal cutbacks put the state at a crossroads, lawmakers heard from advocates and experts Tuesday. Expiring federal dollars from the COVID-19...
Data centers and electrification of transportation driving energy demand in Georgia
ATLANTA — Data centers gulp massive amounts of power, and that insatiable thirst is driving new production and distribution of natural gas supply, experts said at a legislative hearing Monday. A special House subcommittee heard from industry insiders involved in the...
Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis said to agree to testify to Republican-led committee
ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will finally testify to a special committee of the Georgia Senate after rebuffing their demands for more than a year, the committee's leader said Friday. After refusing to appear last year and fighting a committee...
Georgia lawmakers hear more from both sides on election security
ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers who say they want to address doubts about election security wrapped up a fifth marathon meeting Thursday, hearing about themes repeated from prior such events during their travels across the state. Some Republicans on the GOP-led study...
Georgia ports investing in infrastructure as shipments increase
ATLANTA — One in eight Georgia jobs are tied to the state's two ocean ports, and the number of those jobs is growing, according to new research and state data. The Port of Savannah handled 9% more container units year-over-year and has implemented a new routing...
More than a hundred thousand Georgians could be directly affected by shutdown
ATLANTA — The federal government shut down as of 12:01 a.m., and it could affect the income of about 111,000 Georgia employees. Many will not get paid, causing an economic loss that could reverberate through communities. But the Georgia Department of Labor said Friday...
Georgia SAT scores drop a bit but remain higher than national average
ATLANTA — Georgia's public school class of 2025 scored marginally worse on the SAT than the class before but still outpaced the nation by a wide margin. The average score of 1029 was a point lower than that scored by the class of 2024 but 33 points higher than the...