Tonithia Fernandez holds one of her two cats while also trying to pack up and move her home as a Macon-Bibb County excavator clears out another part of the encampment where she lived until Tuesday.

Tonithia Fernandez holds one of her two cats while also trying to pack up and move her home as a Macon-Bibb County excavator clears out another part of the encampment where she lived until Tuesday.

Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB

Atlanta is moving forward with a contentious plan to lease 700 beds at its city jail to Fulton County.

Residents of a tent encampment near downtown Macon have been displaced by the city for the second time in three months.

Researchers have found evidence that sturgeon might be reproducing in Northwest Georgia's Coosa River for the first time since the 1970's.

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