When the two segregated high schools in Athens merged in 1970, high school football was a key part of civic life in the South. Local historian Mark Clegg takes on this subject in his book The Crimson and Gold: Football and Integration in Athens, Georgia.

Dr. Jeffrey Glas is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. He sat down with WUGA’s Emma Auer to discuss the election results.

Athens-Clarke County sanitation workers used a full load of trash to extinguish a garbage truck fire believed to have been sparked by improperly discarded batteries.

The University of Georgia Athletic Association Board of Directors approved a fiscal year 2027 budget.

The National Integrated Drought Information System predicts that the rain expected Memorial Day weekend through to the last days of May will result in around 4 to 5 inches of rain for the county.

Africa races to contain a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak threatening 10 countries as infections spill from eastern Congo into Uganda.

The number of cases — and deaths — in Bangladesh is staggering. As of Sunday, 528 have died, mostly children. How did this measles outbreak begin? And how is the country responding?

The young women make photos that look at life — how it is, how they wish it could be — under Taliban rule. The images are on display at the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn, New York.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with W-U-N-C listener Thomas Hirschman of Durham, North Carolina. and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.