Local/State News

Senator Max Cleland was the guest speaker at a student seminar at Piedmont College in Demorest.

The first fatal accident of the new year in Forsyth County happened early Wednesday afternoon.

Fayette and Forsyth are among the most affluent counties in the country, according to new Census Bureau figures.

The question of stormwater management in Gainesville is about to move "front and center" again.

Mar-Jac Poultry is not giving up on the idea of a feed mill in the Lula area.

Three people, two of them children, were injured in a grinding accident on Thompson Bridge Road near Lakewood Baptist Church late Wednesday afternoon.

It's 2,281 miles away from the movie capital of the world, but some people are hoping Gainesville will be the springboard to Hollywood.

The winner of this year's Gainesville School System Spelling Bee is middle school eighth-grader Ross Moony.

Three separate accidents Monday and Tuesday in the north Georgia area injured at least five people, leaving at least one in serious condition.

Some proposed changes for the states budget could lessen the time it takes to get a drivers license in Gainesville.