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Construction students from 17 area high schools will be participating in the Northeast Georgia Workforce Development Alliance Skills Challenge in Gainesville this week.

The third meeting of a state Senate study committee looking at advanced communications technologies and right-of-way policy will be held in Gainesville Nov. 9.

Northeast Georgia Health System’s president and CEO is one of this year's recipients of the Atlanta Business Chronicle's Women Who Mean Busines award.

As work continues to restore power in areas in Florida and Georgia hit hard by Hurricane Michael last month, more than 20 team members from Jackson EMC are heading to the Florida panhandle to assist a fellow electric cooperative in that effort.

The City of Gainesville plans to create a new business park because the city of Gainesville is running out of building sites for new businesses.

The powered vehicles division of Fox Factory Holding Corp. will build a new facility in Hall County and will bring hundreds of jobs to the area in the process.

As Hall County Parks & Leisure works on a new parks facility master plan, parks system leaders are looking for some citizen via an online survey.

The Friends of the Hall County Library will hold a used book sale this Saturday and Sunday at the main branch in Gainesville.

A Gainesville businessman, Philip Wilheit, Jr., has been named to the Georgia Ports Authority.

Plans for nearly 500 new homes in the South Hall area are on the agenda for the next Hall County Planning Commission meeting.