A Decatur funeral home that helped write Georgia’s composting bill now runs the South’s only licensed vessel, while West Coast firms still ship bodies.
Helen’s Capyfriends Cafe sells $75 capybara sessions from a zip-line campus, with animals housed in Cleveland and canceled tickets treated as donations.
Growers billed 2025 as a 15 percent Georgia peach rebound. USDA counted 35,700 tons, a lower price, and more fruit left unsold.
A mysterious respiratory illness in Georgia dogs in 2025 followed the 2023 kennel cough pattern of mixed bugs and boarding.
Reagan Dougan was driving four children to surprise her husband when their rental Jeep caught fire after an I-95 rear-end in McIntosh County.
Georgia’s Hog Down raffle gives 20 whole-sounder traps a year to residents who kill 10 hogs, a workaround after shooting failed and eradication money was cut.
ARK Homes still offers eight weeks free at Walker Point in Brunswick, where $1,549 rents take 46 percent of median household income.
The April 2023 Pinova fire ended 112 years of Brunswick resin work, erased 213 jobs, and left Superfund neighbors still carrying toxaphene.
Rehabilitation Hospital of Athens opened 40 private rehab beds as a Piedmont-Encompass joint venture that keeps post-stroke patients inside the system.
Tea'z Social bet Little Five Points would learn kava in a pizza shop. The Moreland room is empty; older Atlanta kava bars are still pouring.