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GDOT makes progress on hurricane state route recovery
TIFTON – Less than a week after Hurricane Helene crossed into southwest Georgia, state routes are passable, just a handful of intersections need repair and debris removal is about to get underway. "We're in pretty good shape," Georgia Department of Transportation Southwest District Engineer Scott Chambers said. Hurricane Helene arrived in Georgia in the early morning hours of Sept. 27. Daybreak revealed almost 100 impassable state routes due to debris...
Verizon outage Georgia | Customers reporting issues with cell service. Where have issues been reported?
MACON, Ga. — Some Verizon customers are reporting outages and disruptions to service Monday morning, including here in Georgia. Right now, Verizon has not said much about what is causing the outage. "We are aware of an issue impacting service for some customers," Verizon said on X, formerly known...
In Georgia Tech watch event, students say VP debate was 'civil'
LISTEN: Georgia Tech students watched the vice presidential debate on Tuesday as part of a nonpartisan event. GPB's Sarah Kallis has more. As Republican Sen. JD Vance and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz debated policy during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, college students across Georgia held watch parties. Students at...
Postal problems raise concern as absentee ballots sent out in Georgia ahead of November election
ATLANTA — Currently, absentee ballots are on their way to Georgia voters who are in the military or living overseas, and in less than two weeks, counties across the state will also start mailing regular absentee ballots to other voters. Yet, worries persist about the postal service’s ability to...
Taxpayer dollars at work: Helping Georgia recover after Helene
Note: In this recurring digital news series, GPB follows your federal tax dollars back to the state of Georgia each week. Neither Sen. Jon Ossoff nor Sen. Raphael Warnock is up for reelection this year — the former will run again in 2026 and the latter in 2028. In...
Georgia secretary of state says no election offices ruined by Helene
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said Tuesday no election offices were ruined by Helene, a storm that has plowed through multiple states, including Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee, leaving destruction in its wake. “We’ve been monitoring status reports from all 159 counties,” Raffensperger said in a Tuesday statement on the social platform X.…
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