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Suwanee residents will have three chances to discuss the Fiscal Year 2018 millage rate, which city leaders are looking to hold at 4.93 mills, the same as the previous year.

Fear and a frantic national search followed the escape last month of a pair of armed robbers who allegedly killed two correctional officers along a rural stretch of highway in Putnam County. But how often do convicts actually get loose, and stay free?

Three northeast Georgians, including a judge from Gainesville, a retired educator from Gainesville and the Jackson County sheriff, have been named to new terms on state boards affiliated with their professions.

Breweries from Vermont to Vietnam sent in more than 6,000 beers representing over 100 different styles for the 2017 U.S. Open Beer Championship, and when the dust had settled a Cumming-based company had topped them all.

Gwinnett County officials are proposing a hike in the millage rate to 13.51 mills, which would represent an increase of approximately 2.3-percent in a homeowner's property taxes.

Gainesville Theatre Alliance is one of more than 100 recipients of grants for fiscal year 2018 from the Georgia Council for the Arts.

UPDATE 11:45 a.m.: Habersham County Sheriff’s Capt. Floyd Canup says the man wanted for setting fire to a home on Mt. Zion Road near Alto overnight after a domestic dispute has been arrested.

For the 20th consecutive year, teenage boys are getting the chance to learn some of the life skills that will turn them into men as they work through the various obstacle courses, programs and team building in the Gainesville Jaycees' Gut Check program.

Officials in Suwanee are considering eliminating left turns at the intersection of Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road and Sawmill Court, a move they hope will create easier and more efficient access to Interstate 85.

Forsyth County authorities have arrested a man on three counts of arson in connection to a series of fires set within a week of one another earlier this month.