Georgia News

The threat posed by mosquitoes in Georgia this summer will depend greatly on the weather, experts say.

First Citizens Bank & Trust of Raleigh, North Carolina, has taken over BestBank after the FDIC closed BestBank's parent company, Guaranty Bank - and BestBank's Cumming and Dawsonville branches have been closed.

For the first four months of 2017, officials with the city of Sugar Hill have issued 34 residential permits, a figure that is 19-percent higher than the first four months of 2016, perhaps a signal of the boom that continues in the city.

No injuries were reported in a pair of fires Saturday night in Hall County that heavily damaged a mobile home and a small workshop.

A Stone Mountain police officer and her son have been arrested after an alleged road rage incident involving a gun in Newton County.

Morgan House on Friday announced his resignation as manager of the Lake Lanier Olympic Park, site of the 1996 Olympics.

A Hall County man faces charges — and deportation — for allegedly molesting a girl under the age of 16 over a period of nearly two years.

A Sugar Hill woman faces a list of charges for allegedly using her accounting firm to defraud customers out of tens of thousands of dollars.

Dawsonville Mayor James Grogan has been impeached following a public hearing Monday afternoon, but Grogan's attorney says they will appeal the decision.

It may have been a "misunderstanding" of a reported gunman near Yargo Elementary School in Barrow County that led to a lockdown at the school Monday afternoon.