A clear map of Georgia news.
Georgia Today gathers GPB newsroom reporting into a fast, practical briefing on what is moving across the state. It moves from elections and ordinances to drought, food banks, holiday travel, health guidance, and local recovery work.
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Georgia Today is a compact, reporter-driven news briefing from the GPB newsroom, focused on the decisions and conditions shaping life across Georgia. It moves quickly. Episodes gather several stories into one state-level snapshot, with enough context to explain why each item matters and enough reporting texture to keep the pieces from feeling like headlines alone. Politics is a regular thread. Recent excerpts follow a 14th District runoff, Vice President J.D. Vance's Athens appearance, campaign activity around a May primary, and the way voters describe change in a heavily Republican district. Local government gets similar attention, whether Augusta is weighing a data-center ordinance or Macon-Bibb County is funding work on its troubled jail. The show is also attentive to public safety. A Clayton County operation involving arrests, firearms, narcotics, and serious felony warrants is handled in a direct, factual style. Health and practical service journalism appear often. Heat precautions, hydration advice, mental health crisis training for police officers, and concerns about AI therapy all become short explanations rather than alarm pieces. The geography is broad. Blue Ridge, Augusta, Athens, Macon-Bibb County, Floyd County, Georgia's Washington, and communities recovering after Hurricane Helene all enter the frame. Some stories are civic and procedural. Others are human. Food banks stretched by high demand and weak supply, homeowners facing association foreclosure disputes, and uninsured or underinsured storm survivors give the show a clear public-interest center. Georgia Today also leaves room for education, history, science, and culture, from civics competitions and books on revolutionary Georgia to Georgia Tech students thinking about sustainability in space. The structure is familiar and useful: introduce the concern, bring in reporting, clarify the stakes, and move on. It does not linger for personality. That restraint is part of the appeal. For listeners who want a grounded, state-specific news habit, Georgia Today offers a brisk map of what Georgia is debating, rebuilding, regulating, and watching next.
Made for: Georgia Today suits listeners who want state and local news in a compact, practical format. It is especially useful for people tracking Georgia politics, public policy, weather risks, infrastructure, public safety, and community issues.
What sets it apart: The show combines statewide breadth with local specificity, moving from high-profile politics to city ordinances, food banks, drought, storm recovery, and health guidance in one efficient feed. Its newsroom handoff style keeps the pace brisk while preserving civic context.
Georgia Today is the daily podcast from GPB News bringing you compelling stories and in-depth reporting that you won’t hear anywhere else. Peter Biello hosts this quick and convenient way to get the best of GPB News’ extensive coverage of the topics that matter to you, delivered directly to your device every weekday afternoon.
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A brisk holiday-week roundup that pairs heat safety with travel, civic history, and Georgia infrastructure.
Georgia Today keeps a broad but usable focus, weaving Ocmulgee Mounds, holiday travel, and heat safety into one holiday-week sweep. The heat segment lands with the most practical force, as Dr. Cecil Bennett urges people to drink periodically rather than wait for thirst.
A brisk local-news hour on school phones, ATL lines, and a divisive Georgia race.
The episode moves with a clean local-news rhythm, opening with the high school cell phone ban on Governor Brian Kemp's desk before widening to the security lines at ATL and the congressional race where Iran has become a dividing issue for the candidates seeking to replace…
Georgia Today connects a Virginia campus shooting to Georgia, then weighs detention plans against one small town's capacity.
Georgia Today gathers three Georgia-facing stories into a compact briefing: the killing of University of Georgia graduate and ROTC instructor Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw in a shooting at Old Dominion University, a southwest Georgia data-center project, and planned ICE…
Fargo morning-drive radio with Bo and Megan, NDSU Bison football previews, and listener call-in games.
This episode covers President Trump's visit to Rome, Georgia for a political rally, DHS facility plans in Social Circle, and state efforts to enforce mental health insurance coverage.
Georgia Today covers multiple state-focused news stories.
This episode covers Atlanta United's 2026 season kickoff, Georgia lawmakers seeking funding for a mental health hospital, and President Trump's visit to northwest Georgia, including reactions to a Supreme Court decision on tariffs.
Georgia Today opens with a high school cell phone ban.
A University of Georgia graduate and ROTC instructor was killed in a shooting at Old Dominion University.
Georgia Today, hosted by Peter Biello on Thursday, July 2, reports on dangerous heat across Georgia, the July 4 travel rush, and a proposed national park at Okmulgee Mounds in Macon.
Georgia Today opens with the Okmulgee Mounds moving one step closer to becoming Georgia's first national park.
Georgia Today reports that thousands attended Atlanta's FIFA fan festival before the city hosts eight 2026 World Cup matches.
Georgia Today leads with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's claim that more than 99.99% of recent primary ballots showed no discrepancies, while hand-marked ballots produced most audit errors.
This episode covers Vice President JD Vance's upcoming conservative rally in Athens, a startup offering space-based data centers, and new mental health crisis training for Georgia police officers.
This episode covers a major law enforcement operation in Clayton County resulting in arrests and drug seizures, reports on Georgia's below-average gas prices, and discusses a new bill protecting homeowners from HOA foreclosures.
This episode covers a major law enforcement operation in Clayton County resulting in arrests and drug seizures, current low gas prices in Georgia, and a new bill protecting homeowners from HOA foreclosures.
This episode covers new state lawmakers not affecting power balance, food banks struggling with high demand and low supply, and Georgia's worsening drought with significant rainfall deficits.
This episode covers Georgia's 14th congressional district election results, Macon-Bibb County jail funding approval, and concerns about AI therapists lacking human empathy and ethical oversight.
This episode covers Georgia news including a high school cell phone ban bill, ICE assisting with security lines at Atlanta airport, and a congressional debate over Iran policy.
This episode covers a UGA graduate killed in a campus shooting, a new data center project in southwest Georgia, and planned ICE detention facilities, along with testimony in the Fulton County election interference case.
This episode covers Georgia lawmakers rejecting a property tax elimination proposal, endangered right whale protections, and a bill to increase penalties for protesting without a permit.