Local/State News

The county will offer new programs for adults over 50 as well traditional senior center services and activities for adults over 60 at the newly renovated Sexton Hall.

Hall County authorities are on the lookout for at least one suspect after the armed robbery of a local fast food restaurant early Saturday morning in the south end of the county.

Georgia Mountain Food Bank will partner with the Georgia legal community again this year to fight hunger through the sixth annual Georgia Legal Food Frenzy competition later this month.

​Transportation officials in Hall County have chosen an alternate plan for the Martin Road corridor ahead of the construction of new interchange on I-985, and the public is invited to take a look on April 25.

Gwinnett County property owners should watch their mailboxes for their latest property assessments.

North Carolina officials are continuing to investigate the end of a Habersham County high-speed chase that ended in gunfire just inside that state early Friday.

Dr. Tim O'Keefe of Athens has been named the winner of the 2017 Juniper Prize for Poetry for his upcoming new book, “You Are the Phenomenology"

A Cornelia man was killed Friday night when he was struck by an eastbound freight train in front of Mount Vernon Mills in Alto.

A Banks County man was arrested on several drug-related charges Thursday after agents carried out a search inside his home.

Officials with the Braselton Water Department have issued a boil water advisory for two neighborhoods in the Friendship Road area.