GPB Passport icon GPB Passport icon Passport
GPB donate icon GPB donate icon Donate
Listen Live Listen Live Watch Live Watch Live
GPB Passport icon GPB Passport icon Passport
GPB donate icon GPB donate icon Donate

Georgia Today

Georgia Today is the new daily podcast from GPB News bringing you in-depth reporting and compelling stories from across the state that you won't hear anywhere else. GPB's All Things Considered's Peter Bello hosts this quick and convenient way to get the best of GPB News' extensive coverage of the topics that matter you, delivered directly to your device every week day afternoon. 

 

Ways To Connect

Latest Stories

All Stories
Voters in Dekalb County, Ga. wait in line at a polling place on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022 to cast their ballots in the runoff election for U.S. Senate between incumbent Democratic Se. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.

Georgians show up in force for early runoff voting and more school buses will soon be going green

On the Monday, Nov. 28 edition of the Georgia Today podcast: Nearly 200,000 people turned out for early voting, the federal government is providing funding for electric buses in Georgia, and Sen. Jon Ossoff is pushing for justice in the unsolved murder cases of lynching victims.

|
By:
The Okefenokee Swamp is among Georgia's wildest places. It is home to some 200 species of birds and 50 reptiles, including American alligators and snowy egrets.

Georgia Today: State's beloved Okefenokee Swamp at the heart of plan for new titanium dioxide mine

A proposal to mine for titanium dioxide near the state's Okefenokee Swamp is attracting controversy. Alabama company Twin Pines has applied for a permit to extract minerals near the freshwater wetland and wildlife refuge — the largest blackwater wetland in North America — and residents, politicians and environmental advocates are pushing back to protect the Okefenokee.

RELATED: New bill aims to protect Okefenokee Swamp from mining

|
By:
Clarence Henderson (center), apprehended in 1948 for a murder he likely did not commit.

Georgia Today: The three death sentences of Clarence Henderson

In 1948, a Black sharecropper in Georgia was sentenced to die for a murder he didn’t commit. What happened next tells us a lot about the legal system in the United States then — and now.

|
By: