Some students in Bibb County still in need of internet access before virtual school gets underway next week can pick up free WiFi hotspots from the school district.
Starting at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, parents can pick up a hotspot at the districts professional learning center at 2007 Riverside Drive.
EcoHealth Alliance is one of 11 recipients of funds to set up the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases. But the grant won't let them revisit earlier research on bats and coronavirus.
Florida's governor wants the traveling public to start traveling again. He wants the public to know that air travel is safe during the coronavirus pandemic and hopes tourists will soon return.
Mass transportation ridership plummeted when COVID-19 struck. Now people are beginning to return. What are the risks they face — and how can they reduce them?
Consumer spending rose 1.9% last month — but the rebound slowed from May and June. Unemployment benefits continued to prop up spending in July, but that may change in August.
Despite high unemployment, a severe recession and economic uncertainty, the housing market is on a tear. Sales are booming, and prices hit a record high. Low rates and remote work are driving factors.
Students and faculty sprawled across the grassy quad as if they were dead at the front of the campus of Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville for two hours Friday -- some with cardboard tombstones. “I can’t teach if I’m dead,” one read.
It was all part of a “die in” to protest the COVID-19 policies at Georgia’s public liberal arts school, with students, faculty and staff demanding stronger measures on campus.
With the state of Georgia passing the grim milestone of 5,000 COVID-19 deaths, nearly 100 community leaders and organizers gathered at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta to remember lost loved ones and demand change from the state government.
"We are in a period of epidemic growth," Prime Minister Jean Castex said. "We want to do everything to avoid a new lockdown." The order goes into effect Friday.
Preparing for both in-person and virtual learning has families budgeting for new school supplies like masks and bleach wipes as well as bigger purchases like laptops, speakers, desks and chairs.
A frontline doctor and advocate for Georgia's immigrant and refugee populations on supporting and encouraging some of the people most vulnerable to COVID-19.
Across China, life has largely returned to normal — except in the western region of Xinjiang. Some 22 million people have been under heavy lockdown since July — and they're questioning its severity.
So far this year, flu infections are way down in the Southern Hemisphere. Scientists want to know why — and what it means for the Northern Hemisphere as their flu season looms.
