Hurricane damage puts further strain on rural areas in Georgia Towns like Bartow, Ga., already were suffering before Helene lashed them with 75-mph winds. Now farmers face another effort to rebuild.

Kemp has made rural economic development a priority in his two terms in office. He touted both programs as a way to spur long-term change in economically depressed corners of Georgia, helping ...

Federal funding cuts slash $334 million from Georgia programs, severely impacting Black communities' access to healthcare, ...

But, experts add, the low vaccination rates don’t fully capture why mortality rates are so much higher in rural areas than elsewhere. Explore Complete coverage of COVID-19 in Georgia ...

Atlanta YMCA and Boys and Girls Club are only a few organizations considering program closures due to federal funding freeze.

Nearly 60% of GOAL’s scholarships, or about 5,000 total, were awarded to students living outside of Georgia’s metro areas. Rural areas are also seeing the rise of microschools, a modern ...

In Georgia, the Morehouse School of Medicine is training rural community doulas who will help pregnant women in the southwest part of the state, where maternal mortality rates are high.

Growing the economy in rural Georgia reflects a priority of Gov. Brian Kemp since he first ran for governor back in 2018, Kemp told Capitol Beat. More than $20B was invested in Georgia businesses ...

But the new wrinkle in Harris’s campaign strategy is that she is not just relying on the Atlanta metropolitan area and its suburbs, but the rural areas. Harris’s tour throughout South Georgia ...

A Georgia medical school has begun training and deploying doulas in rural areas of the state, with the goal of decreasing the risk of childbirth complications, especially for Black women.

Helene’s damage to Bartow is just one reflection of the storm’s larger hit to rural Georgia agriculture. According to the USDA’s most recent Census of Agriculture, in 2022, agriculture ...