Grant Blankenship

Attracted by lots of electricity and few people, out-of-state land speculators have secured zoning for a 900 MW data center in Twiggs County in Middle Georgia. 

In parts of Georgia, residents prep for new hurricanes. They haven't recovered from the last ones

Residents of Monroe County in Middle Georgia shut down efforts to build a second massive data center in their community.

Boosters for a planned data center in Monroe County in central Georgia failed to get rezoning approval for the project.

Saturday, thousands of Georgians across the state participated in nationwide protests of federal immigration raids and deployment of National Guard in places including Los Angeles.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in South Georgia’s Charlton County is set to more than double its capacity.

Georgia Power tells state regulators that booming data centers mean it can't quit coal. The regulators' own staff say the numbers don't add up.

The Otis Redding Center for the Arts in Macon is the new home for yearslong efforts by the soul great's family to educate the next generation of musicians. The new arts center named for soul great Otis Redding is open for education and expression

Mana Nutrition turns Georgia peanuts into a paste that has saved millions of children's lives around the world. The nonprofit's on again/off again relationship with USAID is back on.

When enslaved people fled bondage in the 19th-century South, their enslavers were often forced to describe the people they considered property as human beings in "runaway slave ads" in newspapers. 

As the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement nationally, Sheriff’s offices in Georgia are slowly doing the same as mandated by a state law passed last year. 

Georgia's largest provider of electricity says retiring coal will have to wait due to massive energy needs from new manufacturing but mainly from internet data centers.

Georgia continues to lead the nation in the growth of clean energy transition related jobs. The federal spending spurring that growth is a likely target of the new Trump administration.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has released his recommendations for spending more adding $372 million in spending to strengthen Georgia prisons.

It has been 49 years since a Bibb County team made it to a state high school championship game in football. One plays this week for the ring.

The Georgia State Election Board will investigate why challenges to voter rolls were denied in eight different Georgia counties.

Georgia’s State Election Board passed arguably the most contentious of the new rules it had been considering for conducting elections in the state on Friday over the objections of county-level election directors and over the advice of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr. 

Mary Kathryn Nagle's play "On the Far End" tells the story of promises kept and promises broken at the end of the Trail of Tears through the life of one Muscogee woman.

In Oak Ridge Cemetery in Macon, Ga., efforts to understand a once willfully forgotten Black cemetery are leading people to a new understanding of their history.

Because of habitat loss and climate change, rare plants exist in increasingly perilous places. Protecting them means gardening at a landscape scale — one in a most unlikely location: urban Macon.