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.
Tuesday on Political Rewind: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest reporting last week. It is the most definitive report yet on the consequences of an unchecked global carbon economy on our global climate. So, what is the message Americans should take away from this report? As we look ahead to uncertainty, what are the paths forward that address this existential issue?
State regulators will consider signing off Tuesday on a plan marking a significant shift in how cost overruns are handled for Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle expansion, which is already billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule.
The American-installed government of Afghanistan collapsed Sunday as the Taliban completed their offensive across the country and stormed into the capital city of Kabul. The victory brought a somber conclusion to America's longest war, which began in 2001 — and Georgia-based veterans react to the news.
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.
To say Georgia has changed over the last decade is an understatement, as a surge of new non-white residents flocking to urban and suburban cores has altered the balance of political power in a once-reliably white, Republican and rural-centric state.
Albany-based Dr. Winston Price says if vaccination rates do not improve, schools will see outbreaks of the highly contagious delta variant of the virus.
Monday on Political Rewind: Georgians awoke this morning to news of the swift collapse of the government of Afghanistan. The end of the war now presents a humanitarian crisis. It has also become a raging partisan political matter, sure to play a role in the 2022 election cycle.
A new mapping project has volunteers like Joe Cook with the Georgia River Network out with a GoPro camera mounted to the front of his canoe snapping a photo every 10 seconds along waterways like South Chickamauga Creek and the Flint River. The public can follow along as Cook paddles under bridges and through rapids — often with his pup Oconee along for the ride.
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.
Georgia students are beginning their second year of school during the pandemic as coronavirus cases skyrocket, driven by the highly contagious delta variant. With children under 12 not yet eligible for the vaccine, some school districts are already seeing battles over how best to keep kids safe for in-person learning. Gov. Brian Kemp says he has no plans to impose statewide mask or vaccination mandates. Steve Fennessy gets into all this and more with Atlanta-based Wall Street Journal reporter Cam McWhirter.
