Ken Stanford

Georgia is one of 16 finalists for more than $4 billion in competitive federal grants targeting education reform.

One person was injured in a house fire in Oakwood Wednesday night.

New claims for jobless benefits fell last week in a sign that layoffs may be easing as the economy slowly recovers.

Four immigrant students - protesting a federal immigration detention law which is enforced by local authorities in Hall, Gwinnett, and Whitfield counties - stopped at the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office Wednesday.

The north Georgia road that seems to have as many lives as a cat is apparently back.

Tuesday's snow storm may have forced a 24-hour delay to the scheduled meeting of the Gainesville City Council, but it did little to cool off several hotly contested zoning requests.

Georgia lawmakers were urged Wednesday to soften the blows to public colleges and universities, which face up to $600 million in cuts as part of the state's budget crisis.

A northeast Georgia country music group is in the national spotlight again.

Police and fire units escorted the body of Hall County EMS Coordinator Tim Peebles through Gainesville just after noon Wednesday, headed to the funeral service at Lakewood Baptist Church.

Arizona could become the only state to criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants through an expansion of its trespassing law under a bill likely to pass this year.