Ivey Hall, Executive Director of the Macon Area Habitat for Humanity said this unique partnership between the Bibb County Schools and Habitat continues to provide many opportunities during such a difficult time for many in the community.

The state’s Medicaid agency is setting up plans for a health insurer bidding competition that will award a new multibillion-dollar medical contract.

Gov. Brian Kemp, Labor Commissioner Mark Butler and conservative allies have characterized the $300 checks as an incentive to keep Georgians off the job, which they say has contributed to a labor shortage.

Thursday on Political Rewind: A bipartisan vote in the U.S. House approved the establishment of a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The proposal was opposed by all of the Republican members of Georgia’s congressional delegation. Meanwhile, Gov. Brian Kemp launched his reelection campaign with a series of TV and newspapers interviews.

Movies and TV productions filmed in Georgia generated $101 million in wages for members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees during the first quarter of this year, Lee Thomas, the state Department of Economic Development’s deputy commissioner for film, music and digital entertainment, told members of the agency’s board Wednesday.

In this morning's headlines, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has joined 20 other Republican State Attorney's General in urging the Biden Administration to reconsider educational proposals aimed at teaching Critical Race Theory in schools.

Governor Brian Kemp wants another four years in office.

The Democratic Party of Georgia responds to Kemp seeking re-election.

And as the pandemic improves, Georgians are getting back to work, but not at the same rate. 

Republican Party leaders remain solidly behind former President Donald Trump and his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. But as the GOP looks toward the 2022 election, the party is not as unified as it would like, and is at a crossroads moment. On Georgia Today, we look at how the state's GOP sees a pathway to winning in 2022 and 2024 with GPB News political reporter Stephen Fowler.

Eight separate federal lawsuits, including one by the Justice Department, say parts of Georgia's new 98-page voting law violate the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against nonwhite voters and making unnecessary changes.

Labor advocates and state lawmakers in Georgia called on Gov. Brian Kemp Wednesday to reverse his decision to end expanded federal unemployment benefits next month, saying the move would hurt low-wage workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adopting a child can be a complicated and even expensive process. But new laws are aimed at making it easier to adopt a child in Georgia, especially children in foster care.  

Wednesday on Political Rewind: It has been a difficult year. So there may be no more important time for all of us to talk about hard things. Fortunately, Anna Sale, host of the hugely popular podcast Death, Sex and Money, recently released a manual for how to have those conversations. Her book Let’s Talk About Hard Things is a distillation of what she’s learned in discussing the subjects so many of us prefer to avoid on her podcast for the past seven years.

A group of Georgia biologists was catching alligators for a genetics study when they decided to focus their spotlight on the water surface. It was then they saw a large alligator sitting perfectly still, its rough skin blending with the muddy water.

In this morning's headlines, as the pandemic improves, Georgians are getting back to work, but not at the same rate. 

Georgia’s lieutenant governor says he received hundreds of death threats from fellow Republicans, after contradicting false claims of November election fraud in Georgia. GPB's Rikki Klaus reports.

And a 7th lawsuit has been filed against Georgia's new election law, SB 202. GPB's Stephen Fowler explains.