Ken Stanford

Christmas and New Year's are just around the corner and the Gainesville Police Department along with law enforcement agencies all over the country are launching Operation Zero Tolerance Saturday.

A federal appeals court has been asked to reinstate a Georgia law that bans the immediate family of superintendents, principals and other school administrators from running for election to a local school board.

At least seven people were injured in accidents involving more than 15 vehicles on icy Hall County roads Friday morning, according to Hall County Fire & EMS Chief David Kimbrell.

A federal judge in Phoenix has dismissed another challenge to Arizona's new immigration law.

Georgia college students will get less money from the HOPE Scholarship next year.

The South Hall woman who was stabbed by a young man who came to her door Wednesday morning is out of the hospital and talking about the incident.

Schools in northeast Georgia that have missed class time this week because icy roads that forced them to close for one or more days are scrambling to finish pre-Christmas break work today.

The Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District has issued new conservation measures that could reduce water consumption by 30 million gallons a day over the next several decades.

The number of jobs in Georgia decreased by 5,100 over the past 12 months.

Irish pharmaceutical manufacturer Elan Corporation PLC - which has a pharmaceutical production facility in Gainesville - has agreed to pay more than $203 million for alleged illegal promotion of the epilepsy drug Zonegran, the Justice Department said Wednesday.