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June 23, 2025 WABE Conservation land deal stops Okefenokee mining plan Marisa Mecke reports, after six years, the controversial plan to mine next to Georgia’s beloved Okefenokee Swamp has been halted. The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit organization specializing in the acquisition…

June 19, 2025 Capitol Beat News Georgia unemployment rate declines slightly Dave Williams reports that Georgia’s unemployment rate fell slightly in April to 3.5%, seven-tenths below the national jobless rate, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. “After holding steady…

June 19, 2025 Georgia.gov Gov. Kemp Announces Latest Workforce Housing Grant Awards Staff reports that Gov. Kemp announced on Wednesday the latest round of grant awards for the Rural Workforce Housing Initiative, totaling $6.5 million in infrastructure development and supporting…

June 18, 2025 Macon Telegraph, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Election Day in Georgia: See results for Public Service Commission primary races Margaret Walker reports that incumbent Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols convincingly won his primary election Tuesday night, setting himself up to…

June 17, 2025 WSB Radio Georgia joins new nationwide effort to fight against human trafficking Bill Caiaccio reports that Georgia has joined other states around the nation in a new effort to fight against human trafficking. The Georgia Businesses Against Trafficking…

June 16, 2025 GlobalAtlanta.com Belgian Pharma Giant With Atlanta Base to Invest Billions in U.S. Factory Trevor Williams reports that a Belgian pharmaceutical company with its American base in Atlanta is teasing a transformative factory for biologics in the United States. UCB, which unveiled a jazzed-up…

June 13, 2025 Georgia Recorder Hundreds of CDC workers are reinstated but majority of fired public health staffers left in limbo Jill Nolin reports that fired workers of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and their supporters are…

June 12, 2025 Capitol Beat News Regents confirm new leader for University of West Georgia Ty Tagami reports that the University System of Georgia Board of Regents held a final vote Wednesday to confirm Christopher “Mike” Johnson as president of…

June 11, 2025 Capitol Beat News New area code coming to southeastern Georgia Dave Williams reports that Georgia will be getting an 11th area code soon, with the new 565 area code being added as an overlay to the existing…

June 10,  2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer 1,700 people urge regulators to prevent powering Georgia data centers with coal Kala Hunter reports, over the past 18 years, coal power in Georgia has seen a precipitous decline. Between 2007 and 2013, coal power…