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Even though fireworks are legal in Georgia, there are still some locations where pyrotechnics are forbidden.

Construction activity for the I-85 widening project will require lane closures through Wednesday, July 3 along the corridor in Gwinnett, Barrow and Jackson counties.

Mitchell M. Posey, the Special Agent in Charge of the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office, has left that position to become an inspector with the GBI's Investigative Division.

As the Fourth of July holiday travel period looms, gas prices have taken a big jump in Georgia, according to this week's fuel price report from AAA-The Auto Club Group.

Riverside Military Academy will honor Drew Echols and Ray Burch, Jr., at the 6th Annual Sandy Beaver Entrepreneurial Leadership Award dinner on August 8.

A new piece of artwork now sites on the grounds of a North Hall fire station, thanks to the residents of Lanier Village Estates.

Plans for a mixed-use development on Friendship Road, which include a 132-lot subdivision, are scheduled to be heard by the Hall County Planning Commission Monday.

Lanier Technical College’s Medical Assisting Program has been ranked #2 in the state by MedicalAssistantAdvice.com.

There are 20 Internal Medicine residents and six General Surgery residents in the first class of Northeast Georgia Medical Center's Graduate Medical Education program, and the hospital hosted a "right of passage" for them this week.

An increase in the unemployment rate is a typical trend as college and high school graduates enter the job market, and that's what happened with the jobless rate for the Gainesville metro last month.