Ken Stanford

U.S. Rep. John Linder has announced he will retire from Congress after 18 years.

Hall County Commissioners are waiting for information on the Lake Lanier Convention and Visitors Bureau plan to rent vacation cottages by the day, week or weekend.

Home sales in the South posted an annual increase of 8 percent in January as buyers grabbed hold of federal tax credits and affordable prices.

A senior at Gainesville High School - Teryan Rucker - is this year's Hall County Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year.

United Way of Hall County is going to be "taking it to the streets" to say thanks for a successful 2009 despite the recession.

Georgia has millions of unused doses of swine flu vaccine and some local health departments are working hard to administer them before they expire.

The Hall County School Board opened a two-part retreat Friday night with an update on several technology "catalyst" pilots.

Simultaneous drug raids at a Gainesville mobile home park Friday netted four arrests and nearly $8,000 worth of crack cocaine and marijuana.

Retired Gainesville banker Mickey Wilson died Friday.

It was a gloomy week of budget hearings at the Georgia Capitol as state legislators heard in sometimes stark terms what a steep new round of budget cuts could look like.