Tomorrow marks one year since the world lost Civil Rights icon and Georgia Congressman John Lewis. His fight for voting rights inspired a rally at Senate offices in Washington, D.C.

You might have to wait until next week before I-16 in southeast Georgia is fully open to drivers.

Georgia continues to close the employment gap caused by the pandemic.

Everyone from beachgoers in cars to truck drivers hauling containers from coastal ports are detouring along a major route in Southeast Georgia. How a crash with a bridge on another road shut down Interstate 16, plus the plan to reopen the highway.

The ongoing shutdown is complicating things for trucking companies. How they're working around the congestion and delays.

Attorney General Chris Carr reports only two counties in Georgia are not seeing an uptick in gang-affiliated crime.

Nine Georgia mayors have joined city leaders from across the country in pushing Congress to pass a bipartisan infrastructure plan.

A local government in Georgia has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a man who died in a struggle with police officers in 2017. 

A longtime state government attorney is seeking almost $800,000, after being fired as chief legal officer for the Georgia Department of Public Health. 

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is reporting profits of more than $650 million for the second quarter.

There's a new executive director of the Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor Commission, and she's a member of the community.

President Biden says the Justice Department is targeting several laws nationwide, like Georgia's S.B. 202, that make it harder for mostly Black and Brown communities to vote.

State and federal transportation planners have chosen a route for a high-speed rail line that would connect Atlanta to Charlotte, North Carolina.

Authorities are offering a $50,000 dollar reward for tips leading to an arrest and conviction in the slaying of a gas station clerk in northeast Georgia. 

Investigators want tips, after someone defaced a war monument and destroyed American flags at a soldier's gravesite.

New numbers show opioid overdoses skyrocketed across Georgia last year.

Some Georgia hospitals are now requiring employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

A coalition of Georgia legislators and mental health advocates are calling for better access to mental healthcare as the state emerges from the COVID pandemic.

Despite being challenged by the coronavirus pandemic, Georgia raked in a record amount of revenue for this past fiscal year.

Georgia’s suspended insurance commissioner is set to stand trial on federal charges related to an alleged embezzlement scheme. 

British online fashion and beauty retailer ASOS is investing $100 million to automate its Union City warehouse, south of Atlanta.

Georgia's oldest public art museum has hired a new chief curator from the Smithsonian.

Republican Brian Kemp kicked off his second run for the Governor's Office in Perry, Georgia on Saturday.

The possibility of building a commercial spaceport in Georgia just took a giant leap forward.

Governor Brian Kemp is officially kicking off his re-election campaign for governor with a rally at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry tomorrow.

A Georgia regulator is getting closer to issuing licenses to grow medical marijuana.

A weakened Tropical Storm Elsa was strong enough to kill one person in Florida and injured several others at a southeast Georgia Navy base.

A federal judge has denied a request to block parts of Georgia's controversial voting law before several runoff elections next week, but the larger lawsuit is still active.

A flood watch is in effect, now through Thursday afternoon, for south Georgia and the coastline as Tropical Storm Elsa enters the Gulf of Mexico.

The Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Association is putting some of its grant money towards a billboard campaign to destigmatize substance use disorder.

Coastal health officials are urging anyone who would need help evacuating from a hurricane to register for help in advance. 

First Lady Dr. Jill Biden is returning to the Peach State this week.

"This will be a Peachtree like no other," said AJC Peachtree Road Race director Rich Kenah to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Atlanta Track Club, which puts on the July 4 weekend race, says several Tokyo-bound Olympians and Paralympians will compete on Sunday.

Georgia meteorologists are keeping an eye on Elsa, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season. It's unclear whether the storm will hit Georgia.

And officials are urging Georgia boaters to stay safe on the water this holiday weekend. GPB’s Emily Jones has the story.

Dozens of bills, including Georgia's controversial election bill, take effect today.

The state's 15-month public health emergency, prompted by the Covid pandemic, lifted this morning.

And a researcher on the Georgia coast is studying how plants help keep dunes in place to protect against storms.