Georgia News

The president of an Oakwood-based poultry firm has been named the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association's "Workhorse of the Year."

Gainesville has named a new water resources director with 20 years of consulting and engineering experience, along with a background at the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority (GEFA).

For one Rabun County family, the recent winter storm was, in some respects, worse for them than the Blizzard of 1993, the so-called Storm of Century which struck the East Coast and part of the South with a fury unheard of in recent memory.

If you were born in Gainesville, the odds are you will live longer than most other native Georgians.

The number of initial claims for unemployment insurance in Georgia rose by 41.9 percent in December, compared to a month earlier.

As winter storm warnings expired across Northeast Georgia Saturday evening, officials with Jackson EMC made the decision to deactivate the company's Emergency Restoration Plan.

University of Georgia professors are voicing their objections to a new grading system for faculty members that UGA administrators began installing last year.

Heavy rains ahead of the winter weather in Northeast Georgia have resulted in a historic event at Lake Hartwell.

A former city manager of Waleska has been arrested on theft charges following a four-week investigation into missing city funds.

Months after the Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage, lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing bills that would give businesses and some public employees the right to refuse serving gay couples because of their religious beliefs.