Local/State News

Eight pre-med college students from across the state recently graduated from the Foothills Area Health Education Center’s Pathway to Medical School program.

Banks County Fire/Emergency Medical Services Chief Steve Nichols on Friday released details of a Tuesday-night structure fire near Lula.

The Georgia State Patrol has released preliminary details of a single-vehicle wreck that injured the driver in Banks County about 7:30 Thursday morning.

A Jefferson woman is facing charges in a wreck that resulted in the death of a Carnesville man in Banks County Friday morning.

Ninth District Congressman Doug Collins Friday calls the Senate's failure to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act "a failure of process."

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to allow the use of security cameras on private floating facilities, such as docks, on Lake Lanier, according to Rep. Doug Collins' office.

Soaring prices and fewer choices may greet customers when they return to the Affordable Care Act's insurance marketplaces this fall because insurers still don't know whether they will receive critical payments from the federal government.

The Medical Center Auxiliary honored more than 100 teen volunteers during an appreciation dinner earlier this week at the Brenau Downtown Center.

Even though the land has been cleared and graded and some of the concrete already poured, the Gainesville City School Board made it official Thursday night and held a formal groundbreaking for the new Enota Multiple Intelligences Academy.

Georgia's U.S. Senator David Perdue said the American people "should be outraged" now that the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare ultimately failed Thursday night by a vote of 49 to 51.