Georgia News

White County Commision Chair Travis Turner got straight to the point at Monday's commission meeting.

The chief judge of the superior court of the Northeastern Judicial Circuit, which represents Dawson and Hall counties, is stepping aside, but not retiring.

In the third most-visited tourist destination in Georgia, emergency personnel sometimes face unconventional situations.

A Gainesville man remained in custody Tuesday afternoon in connection to a June 30 drive-by shooting on Stallworth Street in Hall County.

For the second consecutive year, the number of boating incidents on Lake Lanier dropped during the July 4 holiday, according to numbers released by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Suwanee City Council is once again looking to hold the city's millage rate steady at 4.93 mills, and the public will have three opportunities to give feedback on it.

Officials in Sugar Hill are once again proposing to hold the city's millage rate steady for the fiscal year, a measure that — if approved — would mark 16 consecutive years without a change.

The man who fled from police on a motorcycle in two states Friday afternoon was wanted for an outstanding arrest warrant.

Georgia House Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) continues to fill slots on study committees created earlier this year by the state Legislature.

The Judicial Nominating Commission has submitted recommendations to fill judgeship vacancies in the Superior Courts of the Dougherty, Enotah, Northern, Ocmulgee, and Ogeechee Judicial Circuits.