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Macon-Bibb County firefighters lift weights in preparation for a photoshoot on June 4, 2025, for the Middle Georgia Firefighter Calendar. The calendar, a charitable endeavor, is back after a seven-year hiatus.

Behind the scenes at the Middle Georgia Firefighter Calendar photoshoot

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
July 7, 2025
One of Kyo Brown's chickens inside her backyard chicken coop in Decatur, Ga., just east of Atlanta. Prohibiting free ranging is just one biosecurity measure that chicken owners and producers are encouraged to take as highly pathogenic avian influenza spreads across the U.S. and across species.

Everything you need to know about Georgia’s bird flu response

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
February 12, 2025
Carlos Ross holds the box containing the ashes of his son, Carmelo Ross, who was 15 when he was shot and killed at the same spot two other people were killed just a couple of years prior in Macon’s Anthony Homes, known to residents as Bird City.

Public housing authorities are angling for more legal protections. Where does that leave tenants?

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
February 7, 2025
A mural of a chicken is painted on a trailer in Elbert County, Ga.

Georgia confirms its third bird flu case in a chicken flock this year. Here’s what you should know.

Sofi Gratas and Chase McGee
January 24, 2025
Nimsy Gomez tries on a knitted shawl while going through clothes donated by United Farm Workers to a community of Latino laborers still recovering from Hurricane Helene east of Tifton. People were given the basics: food, hygiene products, baby formula and, with winter coming, warm clothes to help them endure the cold that will seep into trailer homes.

Georgia farm workers feel the burden of disaster recovery

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
December 19, 2024
Classmates watch as Mercer University student Grace Gasaway fits a functional near-infrared spectroscopy cap onto student Parth Patel's head. Unlike the stillness required for an MRI machine, researchers can map brain activity using fNIRS while participants are moving around, making it ideal to use on young kids.

Scientists have cutting edge technology to scan kids’ brains. But it wasn’t built for all heads

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
July 1, 2024
Attorneys and representatives for correctional health care provider, Wellpath, and for the state attended a hearing over the lawsuit at the Fulton County Superior Court on Monday, June 24, 2024. The new health care provider for Georgia prisons will start July 1.

Georgia prisons will soon have a new healthcare provider after contract was brought into question

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
June 28, 2024
A Brood XIX periodical cicada as seen in Macon, Georgia.

‘An alien mothership’: Brood XIX cicadas are taking over middle Georgia

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 2, 2024
Medical student Emily Hartley from Reynolds, Ga., talks to her neighbors at the ribbon-cutting for the Mercer Medicine clinic in Taylor County, bringing local health care to the rural area for the first time in a decade.

After sitting empty for over a decade, a health clinic in Taylor County is opened again with help

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
December 4, 2023
A shipping container, part of The Medical Center's temporary medical unit, gets prepared for transport to Atlanta in November 2023.

Shipping containers at Macon’s Medical Center depart for downtown Atlanta housing project

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
November 20, 2023
Julia Adele Callahan reaches for a box of pasta at a grocery store in Macon, Georgia, on August 15, 2022. Callahan and her two kids get WIC benefits every month that help pay for essential foods, like baby formula, whole grains, dairy and protein.

Georgia is the last state to take the hassle out of food benefits for millions of women and children

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
August 26, 2022
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