Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will be joining President Joe Biden’s administration in an official capacity. Bottoms will be named Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement in the coming weeks. The news was first reported by Axios. 

COVID cases have increased by about 20% in the last week, and hospitalizations are also up about 17%, but both remain relatively low. 

A conservative film now playing in select theaters around the country isn’t “determinative, definitive” proof of widespread voter fraud, as former President Donald Trump has claimed.

Emory’s Hope Clinic and Vaccine Center is one of four sites in the country participating in the study. The ultimate goal is to vaccinate people against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Unearthed messages among commissioners kick up fresh criticism of redistricting tactic.

Changes to gun laws in Georgia have tended to go in the opposite direction of what Saturday’s marchers would like to see. Residents across much of Georgia value firearms and view government attempts to limit access as invitations to tyranny.

Georgia’s Medicaid program contracts with private health insurers to provide health care services to around 1.7 million Georgians, most of them low-income children and pregnant women. The contracts are worth more than $4 billion annually. 

Georgia is once again at the center of Congressional testimony over events leading to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Emory University is participating in Phase 1 clinical trials to evaluate the use of messenger RNA technology in HIV vaccines.

The Ocmuglee Mounds National Historical Park will soon receive a custom-built 13-foot cypress dugout canoe that will be on display in the park’s visitors center.

The United States is marking the nation’s first Juneteenth federal holiday this year, but Macon has been celebrating the event for 30 years.

State and local health departments have put significant financial resources into fighting COVID-19, but so far the federal government has shouldered the cost of free vaccines and therapeutics as well as a now-defunded program to provide health care for uninsured people with the virus. The federal government is also providing free tests.

An inspection OSHA conducted last November found that four workers had suffered serious injuries by being exposed to several of the same hazards the agency had reported in a November 2020 inspection:

Members of the Congressional Jan. 6 committee held their first televised hearing Thursday. Lawmakers investigating the attack showed new video clips of the insurrection, including damning testimony from top Trump advisors and people who were there that day. Among the first witnesses was an Atlanta native and U.S. Capitol police officer.

Voting rights organizations are challenging a recently drawn map for school board districts in Cobb County.

During the pandemic the U.S. Department of Agriculture expanded access to school lunch waivers. Now those rules that helped feed more kids are set to expire at the end of June. 

The streets of Athens will see their first ever Pride parade this weekend.

The park is meant in part to mitigate flooding in the city's low-lying Canal District, home of the new Enmarket Arena.

Participating health departments across most of Georgia are hosting farmers markets where WIC vouchers are accepted. The markets started in May and run through September.