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Georgia Power hosted company and project leaders, as well as state and local elected officials, for a groundbreaking ceremony at the BESS location in Floyd County on April 18, 2025. Georgia Power

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Georgia Power builds four new battery storage facilities. One’s in Bibb County.

Construction is underway at four new battery energy storage system sites located across Georgia, including one in Bibb County, totaling 765 megawatts of power.

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Margaret Walker and
  • The Telegraph
People walk along the beach in Surfside, Fla., near the skyline of Sunny Isles Beach, on Dec. 17, 2024.

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  • National

About 3 dozen high-rise buildings in South Florida are sinking, a study finds

The 35 buildings surveyed along an almost 12-mile stretch from Miami Beach to Sunny Isles Beach have sunk or settled by 0.8 to 3.1 inches, scientists found.

December 19, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Melinda Mattocks-Ushry holds a photo of her brother Kelvin “Chuck” Mattocks at her home in New Bern, N.C., on Dec. 5, 2023.

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  • Investigations

Trench collapses have killed hundreds of workers in the U.S. over the last decade

More than 250 people have died since 2013 when trenches they were working in caved in. In most cases, the employers failed to follow basic government regulations for making trenches safe.

July 21, 2024
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By:
  • Cheryl W. Thompson,
  • Robert Benincasa,
  • and 2 more
Signage on the historic New Perry Hotel itself has been removed. A certificate of appropriateness for its demolition has been approved by the Main Street Advisory Board and the city’s Community Development Department. (Becky Purser/The Telegraph)

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Will nearly 100-year-old historic New Perry Hotel be demolished? Here’s what we know

Against the backdrop of the city’s 200th birthday celebration and amid public outcry, a nearly 100-year-old historic building is facing demolition. The three-story New Perry Hotel has been part of the fabric of downtown Perry since it was built in 1925. It’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but that does not protect the hotel from demolition. The steep cost of renovation has led current owners to recommend that the building be destroyed.

July 02, 2024
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By:
  • Becky Purser
Solar panels. (Pexels)

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Spread of solar farms in Georgia about to get legislative scrutiny

Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River, with eight million acres of prime farmland. Yet, there’s so much concern over the spread of solar farms eating up huge portions of that acreage with vast fields of solar panels that the state Senate has formed a study committee to explore what can be done to save the most fertile land for farmers.

June 17, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant is shown Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Waynesboro, Ga. The electric utility said on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024 that its second new reactor has begun splitting atoms.

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Georgia’s Vogtle plant could herald the beginning — or end — of a new nuclear era

Few issues are as divisive among American environmentalists as nuclear energy. Concerns about nuclear waste storage and safety, particularly in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor meltdown in Pennsylvania, helped spur the retirement of nuclear power plants across the country. Nuclear energy’s proponents, however, counter that nuclear power has historically been among the safest forms of power generation, and that the consistent carbon-free energy it generates makes it an essential tool in the fight against global warming.

April 09, 2024
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By:
  • Gautama Mehta
Hiring accelerated in the U.S. in March, adding 303,000 jobs, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate dipped to 3.8%, staying under 4% for more than two full years. People walk past a Home Depot in San Rafael, Calif.

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  • Economy

Construction boom helps fuel job gains in March

U.S. employers added 303,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate dipped to 3.8%. Construction companies added 39,000 jobs, despite high interest rates.

April 05, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
Manmade pits at construction sites are providing nurseries for malaria-carrying mosquitoes, new research finds.

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  • Global Health

Big city mosquitoes are a big problem — and now a big target

Africa's cities have become home to an invasive, malaria-carrying mosquito. New research suggests vulnerabilities that could be exploited to take on the disease-bearing insects.

December 05, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
This photo provided by Uttarakhand State Disaster Response Force shows rescuers inside a collapsed road tunnel where 40 workers were trapped by a landslide in northern in Uttarakhand state, India,on Sunday.

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  • Asia

Rescuers dig to reach 40 workers trapped in collapsed road tunnel in north India

The workers were trapped by a landslide at a construction project in northern India. All of the construction workers are safe, police said, adding that they have been supplied with oxygen and water.

November 13, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A maintenance worker sweeps the street in front of a row of new homes in Fairfax, Va., on Aug. 22. Sales of new homes are taking off as current homeowners are reluctant to sell their houses, because they would face a higher mortgage for their next one.

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  • Economy

These are 5 ways surging mortgage rates are reshaping the housing market

The housing market is showing a split: Sales of existing homes were down last month, but sales of newly built houses were up.

August 25, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
A backhoe is used at a construction site in Savannah, with a construction worker watching from a distance.

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  • Economy

Building costs to rise in Savannah, as city imposes new construction fees on private projects

Savannah joins over 50 other Georgia municipalities that charge development impact fees.

July 04, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Damage from the crane

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  • News

UPDATE: Residents allowed to return to Midtown apartments after crane collapse

Around 1,000 residents of the Tens on West apartment complex can go home again after an evacuation order was lifted Tuesday.

June 01, 2023
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By:
  • Dyana Bagby and
  • Collin Kelley
The skyline is seen Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, in Atlanta.

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  • News

Atlanta crane collapse displaces residents of 1,000 apartments

Residents of about 1,000 apartments in Atlanta’s Midtown neighborhood remained unable to return to their homes, a day after a crane partially collapsed at a nearby construction site. Atlanta fire chief Rod Smith said one of the crane's counterweights became dislodged and fell, causing damage to the crane Monday afternoon. 

May 23, 2023
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By:
  • Associated Press
An ironworker scales a column during construction of a municipal building in Norristown, Pa. on Feb. 15, 2023.

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  • Economy

Where did the workers go? Construction jobs are plentiful, but workers are scarce

Biden administration stimulus money pledged billions in funding for public works projects across the U.S. But contractors say they can't find enough workers to fix all the roads and bridges.

April 06, 2023
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By:
  • Mary Yang
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits the city center destroyed by last the Feb. 6 earthquake in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, on Feb. 8.

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  • World

Videos show Turkey's Erdogan boasted letting builders avoid earthquake codes

Videos have surfaced in Turkish media of the president in 2019 praising a policy that let builders off the hook for skirting safety codes that could have made buildings more quake resistant.

February 13, 2023
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  • Peter Kenyon
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