Ken Stanford

The State Public Service Commission will hold a hearing in Gainesville Monday night on Atmos Energy's proposal to raise natural gas rates.

Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a "big lie" used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported.

Sixty years ago, the late Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield resisted helping to pay for Lake Lanier, a new federal reservoir being built north of town. Atlanta had plenty of water, he wrote Congress. Thanks, but no thanks and those words came back to haunt Atlanta last year.

It took Gwinnett County firefighters about 30 minutes to bring under control a roadside fire near Suwanee that slowed traffic on I-85 Friday about noon.

All that "fun in the snow" that Forsyth County students had Wednesday will be just a distant memory come April 1. But they'll be reminded of it then as they find themselves having the make the day up instead of beginning Spring Break.

A construction project at the Lanier Filter Plant near Buford has allowed Gwinnett County to recycle almost two million gallons per day of filter backwash water since its completion in 2008.

Statham Police Chief Roger Tripp says he will retire later this month after five years heading the department in the small Barrow County town.

The unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent in February as employers shed fewer jobs than expected, evidence that the job market may be slowly healing.

More than two dozen alleged members of a violent transnational street gang - including two from Gainesville - are charged with racketeering and other crimes in metro Atlanta in a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.

Gov. Sonny Perdue on Thursday assailed state legislators for pushing deep cuts he said could dismantle the state's world-class university system.