Doctors in Georgia are reacting to the news that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is now fully approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Former University of Georgia football star Herschel Walker continues to raise suspicions that he'll run in Georgia race for the U.S. Senate.

It's opening day of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, and athletes with ties to Georgia will compete on the world stage.

A federal judge has found part of Georgia’s sweeping new election law unconstitutional. 

The City of Atlanta saw its 100th homicide of the year over the weekend.

Delta Air Lines is sending jets to help the U.S. military transport people fleeing Afghanistan.

Pregnant people, or those who have recently given birth and are not vaccinated against COVID-19, are at higher risk of serious illness and death.

Mayors from across Georgia are blasting Governor Kemp's executive order, undoing COVID mandates for private businesses and sports teams.

The mayors of some of Georgia’s largest cities are slamming a new order from Governor Brian Kemp, which aims to limit local efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

Headlines this week say Georgia just reached a troubling milestone: one million COVID-19 cases. But the state likely surpassed that milestone months ago. GPB’s Grant Blankenship explains. 

Pregnant people or those who have recently given birth and are not vaccinated against COVID-19 are at higher risk of serious illness and death. GPB’s Ellen Eldridge reports.

And one of the youngest people to hike the Appalachian Trail just finished the trek. He began it in Georgia.

Most hospitals in the State of Georgia are full or nearly full and many of the patients have COVID-19.

Governor Kemp announced an executive order forbidding local governments from enforcing COVID-19 ordinances on businesses in the private sector.

 

Covid-19 infections are straining resources at nearly every hospital in the state.

Meteorologists are looking at several ravaged sites in Georgia, after confirming four tornadoes associated with Tropical Depression Fred.

Children in Georgia continue to be affected by the surging Delta variant of the coronavirus. 

Inspectors with the National Weather Service will be out for a second day of examining potential tornado damage from Tropical Depression Fred.

The National Weather Service says Tropical Depression Fred spun off as many as 10 tornadoes yesterday, mostly in the northeast portion of Georgia.

Georgia has now hit 1,000,000 total cases of the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic and surpassed 19,000 deaths.

The Georgia Secretary of State's Office has completed it's removal of ineligible or infrequent voters from its rolls.

Parents in one Atlanta-area school district plan to hold a second rally to demand a school mask mandate.

Georgia’s end of course and end of grade tests are designed to measure how well students learn in a typical instructional year, but the COVID pandemic made the last school year anything but typical. 

 

Meriwether County, Baldwin County and Americus have already seen storm damage from a pair of tornadoes that spun off from Tropical Depression Fred.

Gov. Brian Kemp plans to increase hospital staff and close state offices on Sept. 3 to encourage public employees to get vaccinated.

Many hospitals in Georgia are so full they’re turning away patients. One Atlanta doctor who specializes in infection prevention says COVID-19 is once again "out of control" in the state.

As Georgia continues to see a sharp rise in COVID infections, Gov. Brian Kemp and the state’s top public health official will hold a press conference this afternoon to talk about their response.

Dougherty County has resumed its weekly COVID-19 updates following a grim spike in hospitalizations for the coronavirus.

The National Weather Service is issuing a flash flood watch as Tropical Storm Fred nears Georgia and makes landfall tonight.

It feels like we can't avoid a conversation on race during this moment in America. So, after the conversation, what do we do? GPB's Leah Fleming talks with Gene Demby, host of NPR podcast Code Switch, coming to GPB Sunday mornings.

Governor Kemp admits convincing people to get vaccinated from the coronavirus isn't easy, but he's stopping short of offering financial incentives.

Official census numbers were released Thursday and Georgia is growing. 

The ongoing surge in Covid-19 cases brought on by the Delta variant is already making waves in Georgia schools.

That includes the Glascock County School System, where leaders shut down in-person learning, within days of starting school.

And as part of a probe by House and Senate Democrats into Trump’s actions after the November election, senators met privately yesterday with a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta.