Local/State News

The Georgia State Patrol reports the driver of a tractor-trailer that overturned on Ga. 365 early Friday said he swerved to miss an animal then another vehicle immediately before the crash.

Former Gainesville resident Bucky Springle, who rode out Hurricane Florence in Morehead City, N.C., says it was 'awful' as the storm made landfall a week ago and moved inland.

A woman from Sugar Hill was killed Friday morning when she ran a red light on Georgia 400 at Highway 53.

A woman believed to be part of the local homeless community has been identified as the victim of an accident on a Gainesville train track.

After spending months working with the Hall County Animal Shelter and the Humane Society of Northeast Georgia, Hall County government is ready to make unsupervised tethering of dogs against the law.

It wasn’t on the agenda but it definitively was on the minds of city leaders when the Flowery Branch City Council met Thursday evening.

The City of Cleveland has lifted the Boil Water Notice that was issued Wednesday for several locations south of Cleveland.

Seven different law enforcement agencies from North Georgia were honored at Wednesday's Governor's Challenge Awards ceremony in Macon.

A woman was killed when she was struck by a cargo train in Gainesville early Thursday morning, but authorities have not yet identified her.

Senator David Perdue says he's frustrated with the way his party is handling itself saying "Republicans have decided to play defense and I came here to play offense." Senator Perdue made his statement in an appearance Friday morning on the Bill and Joel Morning Show where he expressed similar feelings about the recent developments in the Kavanaugh confirmation proceedings.