Ken Stanford

Gainesville City Councilman George Wangemann does not like the gang graffiti he is seeing in his own neighborhood, so much so that he has asked police to investigate.

The state has begun taking bids on the old labor department property on Corporate Drive in Gainesville.

Eight people were arrested Friday during a vigil outside a federal immigration detention center in south Georgia.

Gainesville police are trying to determine if three men they've charged with breaking into a northside home early Friday are responsible for other crimes in the area and they have released the names of the suspects.

Brenau University is hosting more than 80 college and university professors and administrators from around north Georgia today.

A hearing for a R. Randy Jones, a former lender for Cornelia-based Community Bank & Trust, charged in an alleged faulty loan scheme, was scheduled Thursday but Jones was not in court.

Hall County's chief tax appraiser has resigned effective December 1.

The State Transportation Board Thursday voted to begin as much as $350 million in new spending on statewide infrastructure projects to bolster job creation and preservation in Georgia

Gainesville-Hall County development officials have been presented with plans for a 75,000-square-foot building in Gainesville Business Park even though there is no tenant for it in these still tough economic times.

Investigators now say the 14 year old Dawson County girl who falsely reported that she was raped at her home nearly two weeks ago did it to get attention.