Despite a 15% jump over the past week for the number of Georgians getting vaccinated against COVID-19, the virus is taking dozens of lives each day and overcrowding hospitals statewide.

Georgia's employment rate continues to make a comeback, but it still faces the risk of the coronavirus resurgence. 

A special election is scheduled for a Georgia House Seat once held by the late Edward "Mickey" Stephens, who passed away on August 21st.

The number of confirmed COVID deaths in Georgia has now surpassed 20,000, state officials said Friday. In addition, there are more than 3,000 “probable’’ deaths from COVID, according to the state Public Health website.

Georgia faces its worst crisis of the pandemic, with more patients than ever before hospitalized for COVID-19. The state's also breaking records for the number of children in the hospital with the virus. As the delta variant tightens its grip on the state, the Georgia Today podcast gets a firsthand account of the situation inside Georgia's pediatric hospitals from Dr. Matthew Linam, an infectious disease specialist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University.  

 

Georgia will use $5.8 million in federal coronavirus relief aid to market a tourism industry that suffered losses during the pandemic, Gov. Brian Kemp said Thursday.

A former Georgia prosecutor has been indicted on misconduct charges related to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

Refugee resettlement organizations are scrambling to prepare for an influx of Afghan refugees as the U.S. works to process the thousands seeking asylum.

The 35th annual Dragon Con kicked off in downtown Atlanta on Thursday — with restrictions and precautions in place amid a spike in COVID-19 cases across Georgia. The return marked what many consider to be an institution of the city after the pandemic forced organizers to cancel last year's in-person event.

Thursday on Political Rewind: Thursday on Political Rewind: Jazz pianist Joe Alterman is a sparkling, young talent in the jazz music scene. He has won the acclaim of some of the masters of jazz. Ramsey Lewis, Ahmad Jamal, Les McCann and more have praised his masterful, musical abilities.

Hundreds of local election supervisors, board members and probate judges attended a three-day conference on Jekyll Island that included training on changes brought under Georgia's new 98-page voting law.

State public health officials reported a single-day total of 10,798 COVID-19 cases Tuesday, along with 86 deaths.

Rural Georgia continues to represent the bulk of the state’s land mass, but it is now only home to 21% of the state’s population. A decade ago, one quarter of Georgians lived in the state’s countryside.

Raffensperger announced Wednesday he has filed a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) with the federal agency to release any records of contacts it may have had with civil and voting rights organizations in light of the lawsuit.

Georgia now has a new Covid-19 case record. In other words, more Georgians are being diagnosed with the virus than ever before.

And a north Georgia city is hosting one of the state’s first drive-through infusion clinics to treat patients who were recently diagnosed with coronavirus.

Black women in Georgia are nearly three times more likely to die during childbirth than white women.

Wednesday on Political Rewind: As the pandemic surges, public health officials are asking members of the public to get their vaccination against COVID-19 to help stop the spread of the virus. An editorial on the front page of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution echoed those sentiments, and called on readers to "save lives" by getting vaccinated.