Local/State News

Several Gainesville churches will sponsor a Good Friday event today that will begin at Grace Episcopal Church near Brenau University and end at First Baptist Church on Green Street.

A Banks County appointee has threatened county government over a portion of its personnel policy restricting political signs.

Hall County Public Works Director Ken Rearden will be “returning to the drawing board” after county commissioners told him that they wanted to change tactics on two north Hall intersection improvement plans.

The Quinlan Visual Arts Center, as part of the Partners in Education (PIE) program, is offering an incentive-based field trip to the class from each of the city's elementary schools with the best first semester attendance.

Matthew Boedy, a professor with the University of North Ga. who recently spoke out against the bill at an Atlanta-based rally, joined the Afternoon News Wrap this week to discuss the bill's impact on the university system here in Georgia.

The manager of the Lake Lanier Olympic Park in Hall County expects the venue to shatter previous year numbers for area economic impact this year.

The 21st Annual Research Conference (ARC) at the University of North Georgia (UNG) kicks off Friday on the university's Gainesville Campus, and will feature myriad research projects being pursued by dozens of undergraduate students.

The Georgia House has again voted to require that law enforcement expedite processing of rape kits for sexual assault victims.

An accidental natural gas line rupture caused some concern on the Truett-McConnell College campus in Cleveland Wednesday night.

A Walton County man’s leg was severed just below the knee with a piece of shrapnel when he and his friends blew up a lawn mower.