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Georgians are invited to walk off their holiday overindulgences with a hike at a state park.

With most Hall County residential property tax bills being due on Monday, have the reassessments that sent many lake front homeowners into a tailspin this summer affected the real estate market?

Millions of Americans are expected to head to the stores for holiday gift shopping on Thanksgiving in what's quickly becoming a new holiday tradition.

The Georgia Department of Labor Thursday morning released area unemployment rates - the unemployment rate in the Northeast Georgia region for October was 6.3 percent

Turkey, stuffing and a helium-filled Thomas the Tank Engine were on the menu as friends and families gathered across the United States to celebrate Thanksgiving.

The stock market eked out another record close on Wednesday ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday as investors assessed the latest reports on the economy and some corporate earnings.

Many immigrants in the United States illegally who apply for work permits Under President Obama's new executive actions would be eligible for Social Security and Medicare benefits upon reaching retirement age, according to the White House.

Thanksgiving is a holiday centered around a picturesque meal. What ends up on the table varies from house to house, but turkey is the traditional constant.

More gun sales than ever are slipping through the federal background check system - 186,000 last year, a rate of 512 gun sales a day, as states fail to consistently provide thorough, real-time updates on criminal and mental histories to the FBI.

More than 1.3 million Georgians are expected to travel on state highways and use the world's busiest airport through Sunday for Thanksgiving, and officials say they're prepared for the rush with extra staff to monitor roads and help people move through security lines.