Local/State News

An investigation is underway after a person was struck and killed by a train under the Queen City Parkway bridge Thursday morning.

For the first time in 11 years, Georgia’s unemployment rate for August dipped below the national number.

Both Gainesville City and Hall County schools outpaced the state of Georgia in graduation rates for 2018.

The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Stakeholders was recognized Thursday by a state group for providing a "road map" to end the tri-state water wars.

Voters in Habersham, Banks and Stephens counties will have another opportunity to elect a House District 28 Representative in the Georgia Legislature.

No official paperwork has been submitted to government officials, but a plan by a religious group to build a large multi-use community in Flowery Branch has been stirring concern among residents for more than a week.

The Gainesville City Council voted Tuesday evening to relax some restrictions in it's alcoholic beverage ordinance to allow for distilleries to operate in the city.

An updated image has been released of some unidentified human remains located in Buford in July of 2015.

More development is headed for the busy Dawsonville Highway corridor in Gainesville.

Three events late Thursday in downtown Gainesville, including the Gainesville High School Homecoming Parade, will result in street closings in that part of town for about three hours.