Ken Stanford

The winners of this year's Gainesville Kiwanis Club John W. Jacobs, Senior, law enforcement awards were named at Tuesday's club meeting.

The river basin which includes Lake Lanier is experiencing drier than normal conditions for this time of year, causing below-normal lake levels throughout the region.

About 100 students walked out of class at a suburban Atlanta high school on Tuesday, protesting Georgia's new law cracking down on illegal immigration and a new Georgia university system policy that effectively bars illegal immigrant students from the five most competitive state colleges and universities.

Most of middle and south Georgia is rated as being in moderate to severe drought, and drought conditions are beginning to reappear in north Georgia.

Gov. Nathan Deal Tuesday announced the names of those who will sit on his Education Finance Study Commission, which will evaluate the method of funding for Georgia s school systems and was created by the passage and signing of HB 192.

Growing populations and increased urbanization could reduce the 200 million acres of forestland in the South, including Georgia's Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests - by about 10 percent over the next 50 years, according to a U.S. Forest Service study released Tuesday.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says due to unforeseen circumstances, the location for next Tuesday's informational meeting on the Lake Sidney Lanier Shoreline Management Update for Community Docks has changed.

A Hall County man has been named Director of Engineering for the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT).

The man whose car left Town Creek Church Road in White County Sunday afternoon and overturned died as the result of a heart attack, not injuries suffered in the crash.

Another veteran deputy in the Hall County Sheriff's Department plans to run for sheriff but of Jackson County.