Ken Stanford

New requests for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week after rising in the past three weeks. Still, claims remain much higher than they would be in a healthy economy.

Hall County will pocket more than half-a-million dollars in rent from Liberty Mutual over the next 14 months before the county completely takes over the company's Browns Bridge Road building.

The unemploymnet rate in northeast Georgia is down two-tenths of a percent.

A number of northeast Georgians have been named Movers & Shakers in Georgia Agribusiness by Georgia Trend Magazine.

Jimmy Adams of Adams Data Management (ADM) announces the company

A hiker from northeast Georgia, missing since Sunday in Denali National Park in Alaska, has been after he walked into a camp Wednesday afternoon.

The largest woman's club in Hall County celebrated its 50th anniversary Wednesday at the Chattahoochee Country Club.

Authorities say an ammonia leak at a west Georgia poultry plant sent 23 employees to the hospital.

Jackson County fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire Tuesday night that destroyed a detached garage at a house in Pendergrass.

Many consumers in this country say they are changing their buying and eating habits as a result of the massive recall of eggs that began last week.