Local/State News

The City of Gainesville's annual curbside leaf pick-up begins today and will continue until Feb. 1.

A man from Cumming was killed in an accident with a dump truck on Interstate 85 in Jackson County Saturday night.

Gasoline prices in Georgia increased 1-cent last week, according to this week's fuel price report from AAA, the Auto Club Group.

The University of North Georgia has received a $24,000 National Science Foundation grant to aid its efforts in hosting the 38th annual Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations.

Property owners in Gainesville should be getting this year's tax bill sometime this week.

Truett McConnell University's Pilgram Marpeck School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics is establishing a scholarship for full-time, undergraduate or graduate females, currently majoring in biology or exercise science.

Killed was Marlon Walker, 32.

For the second year in a row, the Gwinnett County Police Department is looking for additional volunteer chaplains for its officers.

Hall County Resource Recovery, along with three of its community partners, received a first-of-its-kind award for innovative methods at the Georgia Recycling Coalition Conference earlier this month.

The USDA Forest Service is partnering with the University of Tennessee to conduct a National Visitor Use Monitoring survey across the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests beginning October 1 for a year.