Local/State News

The Georgia Department of Transportation is advising motorists that a single lane closure on the Dawsonville Highway will take place this weekend as part of an ongoing bridge repair project.

A Forsyth County doctor has pleaded guilty to health care fraud after he reportedly filed $1.1 million worth of claims for surgical monitoring he did not perform.

Investigators for the Banks County Sheriff's Office continue their investigation of an early-morning burglary at Country Boys Sports on Caudell Road.

Lanier Islands will continue recruiting both seasonal a permanent workers Saturday

A Commerce woman died and a Jefferson woman suffered non-life threatening injuries in a Thursday evening traffic accident in Jackson County.

Hall County mobile home taxes, as well as those for other counties across the state, are due April 1 this year, which is a month earlier than in previous years.

In celebration of National Poison Prevention Week, Safe Kids Gainesville/Hall County and the Gainesville Police Department will host an Operation Pill Drop Saturday from 11:00-2:00 police headquarters on Queen City Parkway.

Lee Hemmer was named chairman of the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors Thursday.

Emory University says it plans no further action on graffiti such as ``Trump 2016'' and other slogans supporting presidential candidate Donald Trump that were scrawled in chalk on campus sidewalks and some buildings.

Thursday marked the 40th and final day of the legislative session, and lawmakers worked past midnight to send bills to Gov. Nathan Deal