Local Business News

Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation has implemented a rate decrease for its members for the rest of 2018.

Are you a veteran who owns a small business? Do you want to do business with the Georgia Department of Transportation? GDOT has opportunities across the state for service providers to participate in a variety of transportation-related routine maintenance projects.

A $9.5 million contract has been awarded by the state Department of Transportation for pavement marking upgrades on I-985 in Hall and Gwinnett counties.

The University of North Georgia's health and physical education teacher education program is moving to the Gainesville Campus in spring 2019.

Truett McConnell University is launching a new publishing house, a result of its president's goal of expanding TMU's academia "to the Christian population" across the country.

A journeyman linemen team from Jackson EMC was named the top electric cooperative team at the 35th Annual International Lineman’s Rodeo, which was held recently in Bonner Springs, Kansas.

Construction is now underway on the new $7.89 million Piedmont College Conservatory of Music.

Recreational sports at the University of North Georgia received a "major boost" recently when the University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved four intramural fields on UNG's Dahlonega Campus.

The number of first-time unemployment claims filed last month in Georgia was the lowest since 1974.

Dates have been set for two traditional Gainesville holiday events, Christmas on Green Street and Jingle Mingle.