The Georgia Health Care Association submitted a request Monday for $347 million from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Congress passed last spring for nursing homes, citing a significant decline in nursing home occupancy during the pandemic.
The Stone Mountain Association’s board adopted a new logo that depicts the southern face of the mountain away from the massive carving of three Confederate leaders. It replaces the previous logo dominated by images of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
As the delta variant hits Georgia and across the country, Phoebe Putney Hospital in Albany continues to break records for COVID-19 cases, a bleak flashback to last year when Albany was a global hotspot during the onset of the pandemic.
Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration want to use their massive $3.5 trillion spending plan to help communities that have been devastated by environmental pollution and degradation.
GPB News spoke with half a dozen Afghans living in Georgia. Each described a feeling of utter pain and hopelessness fearing for friends and loved ones more than 7,400 miles away in Afghanistan as it falls under Taliban control.
Leaders of Georgia hospital systems say the latest COVID-19 wave has been very difficult for nurses and other clinical staff partly because it emerged at a time of wide availability of vaccines — and therefore was largely avoidable.
Pregnancy causes changes in the body that can make people more likely to get sick from respiratory viruses such as those that cause COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The mayors of some of Georgia’s largest cities are slamming a new order from Governor Brian Kemp, which aims to limit local efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
Headlines this week say Georgia just reached a troubling milestone: one million COVID-19 cases. But the state likely surpassed that milestone months ago. GPB’s Grant Blankenship explains.
Pregnant people or those who have recently given birth and are not vaccinated against COVID-19 are at higher risk of serious illness and death. GPB’s Ellen Eldridge reports.
And one of the youngest people to hike the Appalachian Trail just finished the trek. He began it in Georgia.
Georgians with certain medical conditions have been permitted to take cannabis oil to ease their symptoms for six years, but it was illegal to purchase in Georgia. The state has finally approved six licenses for companies to produce and distribute medical marijuana oil in Georgia. However, many companies whose applications were not accepted are calling foul play, protesting the licensing process which can delay the production and distribution of medical cannabis oil for many Georgians in need.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed an executive order Thursday aimed at preventing local governments from imposing COVID-19 restrictions such as mask mandates or vaccine requirements. Under the new rule, businesses can voluntarily comply with local rules, but they cannot be forced to do so.
Minority groups' ability to spend on consumer goods outpaces the national average. That has many businesses scrambling to market their products in a new way. These trends are detailed in a new analysis by the University of Georgia. Report author and economist Jeffrey Humphries, Director of Economic Forecasting at the Terry College of Business, joins GPB's Rickey Bevington to break down his findings.
It’s getting more urgent than ever to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy to minimize the devastation of climate change, according to a landmark report last week. And solar panels are cheaper than ever. But for Georgia Power customers, it’s not quite that simple. Most still need to get some of their electricity from the utility, and a program that made that mix of power sources affordable has just filled up.
