Ken Stanford

Two more college students from the U.S. have been killed in Juarez, Mexico, one month after a Lumpkin County native was slain in another Mexican border town.

The economy generated a net gain in jobs for the first time in five months in October, as businesses stepped up their painfully slow pace of hiring. But the unemployment rate remained stuck at 9.6 percent.

A worker at the Forsyth County Water Plant died after being trapped under a piece of machinery.

A plane on a flight from Virginia to Peachtree City made an emergency landing in Gainesville early this morning.

The white Southern Democrat - endangered since the 1960s civil rights era - is sliding nearer to extinction.

Gainesville businessman Phillip Wilheit has been named to the Chancellor Search Committee, which will be seeking the 12th chancellor of the University System of Georgia (USG).

Federal and local law enforcement agents have arrested 45 people and seized cash, guns and more than two tons of drugs as part of an investigation into the Atlanta-area U.S. distribution hub of a major Mexican drug cartel, authorities said Thursday.

Governor-elect Nathan Deal says he's ready to work with Democrats in Georgia for the betterment of the state.

When the new year rolls around, Habersham County employees will be faced with more upaid furlough days.

Some west hall residents had to do without water service for a while Thursday morning because a water main broke in the Sardis area west of Gainesville.