Ken Stanford

The $350 million road paving project approved by the state DOT board includes fundng $33 million for two projects in Hall, Jackson and White counties.

Two wrecks overnight in Hall County left one person injured.

While it's no secret that the state and the nation are facing severe nursing shortages, couple that with the lack of educators to train new nurses and the situation becomes even more difficult.

"Excited" is the word used by both the state Republican Party chairwoman and the head of the Hall County GOP to describe their reaction to news that Hall County Commissioner Ashley Bell is leaving the Democratic Party for the GOP.

The Supreme Court appears likely to sustain an Arizona law that threatens to take away the licenses of businesses that knowingly hire workers who are in the United States illegally.

On the same day a Gainesville man was charged with stealing his Salvation Army Christmas Kettle collections, someone slipped a $5,500 donation into one of the red kettles in northwest Georgia.

A Hall County sheriff's deputy escaped injury Thursday morning when a car pulled into the path of his patrol car on Cleveland Highway but the driver of that was injured.

Applications for unemployment benefits dropped last week to the second-lowest level this year, evidence that companies are cutting fewer jobs.

The state Transportation Board is set to vote on repaving the northeast stretch of I-285, as well as I-75 south of the Perimeter and one in the Buford area.

The Senate is expected to reject a House-approved path to legal status for hundreds of thousands of foreign-born youngsters brought to this country illegally.