The Georgia Department of Education’s move to place full-time literacy coaches in 60 of the state’s high-need elementary schools is producing results in the Bibb County School District and elsewhere, data show.

On the Aug. 1st edition: Macon mental health advocates survey adverse childhood experiences; a bridge in Atlanta reopens after seven years; a University of Georgia study found aggressive behaviors in some Joro spiders.

Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said he will cooperate with the U.S. Department of Justice if Attorney General Pam Bondi pursues a federal investigation into the Bibb County Jail. Two U.S. senators, a Macon criminal prosecutor and the Georgia NAACP also expressed support for the probe.

GPB's Grant Blankenship recently talked to Bibb County School Superintendent Dan Sims to find out what the frozen money was meant to pay for.

While Macon-Bibb County has made strides to support its low income neighborhoods, Pleasant Hill still lacks healthy food options and grocery stores.

The calendar, a charitable endeavor featuring the Macon-Bibb County Fire Department's finest, is back after a seven-year hiatus. 

Macon-Bibb County is the only municipality in Middle Georgia where homeless camping and sleeping in public is banned. But the ordinances actually have allowed for more outreach and support than arrests.

LISTEN: John Akaki takes pleasure and finds meaning in calling bingo. GPB intern Taleen Hanna brings us this audio postcard.

It has been 49 years since a Bibb County team made it to a state high school championship game in football. One plays this week for the ring.

The Bibb County Fire Department’s rescue divers were given access to new scuba equipment which they hope will help them save drowning victims, officials announced Tuesday.

Being left out of your town's downtown revitalization boom time doesn't feel great. A collaboration between Kennesaw State University's architecture program and leaders in Macon is focused on listening to residents and spreading the growing wealth.

Residents of a part of Macon targeted for ambitious redevelopment don't want the progress to leave them behind.

The Georgia State Election Board will investigate why challenges to voter rolls were denied in eight different Georgia counties.

Mary Kathryn Nagle's play "On the Far End" tells the story of promises kept and promises broken at the end of the Trail of Tears through the life of one Muscogee woman.

In Oak Ridge Cemetery in Macon, Ga., efforts to understand a once willfully forgotten Black cemetery are leading people to a new understanding of their history.